HOT Is Going Omnichain: Laying the Rails for Scalable Utility and Community Participation

At Holo, our mission has always been to make distributed, human-scale applications truly accessible. That began with connecting Holochain apps to the web, but it has since evolved. Today, Holo is building cloud infrastructure that meets developers and projects where they are—offering scalable, decentralized compute and storage for a range of use cases. We’re not replicating infrastructure as usual. We’re rebuilding the internet’s plumbing for a future where people matter more than platforms.

Today, we’re excited to share a major infrastructure milestone:

HOT is becoming an omnichain asset, powered by LayerZero.

Through this integration, HOT can move natively across multiple chains—starting with Layer 2 networks like Base and Arbitrum—bringing lower fees, faster transactions, and broader reach.

But this isn’t just a bridge. It’s a beginning.

This integration does more than move tokens. It unlocks participation.

• HOT payments and payouts on L2s enable real-world, scalable use—especially for HoloPort owners.

• DeFi strategies using HOT become possible through partners like RainDEX and Rain Protocol.

• Liquidity pools seeded on L2 allow early price discovery and experimentation.

In short: this infrastructure empowers our community to engage more directly, affordably, and meaningfully.

We chose LayerZero because it does things differently:

• No wrapped tokens: HOT moves natively across chains—no synthetic assets, no lock-and-mint games.

• Security-first design: Decentralized verifiers reduce risk and increase trust.

• Real adoption: It’s already trusted by Uniswap, Stargate, and dozens more.

Wrapped tokens often introduce:

• Custodial risk

• Liquidity fragmentation

• Complex, costly user flows

LayerZero avoids these—all while enabling seamless, omnichain functionality.

We’re beginning with L2 deployments on Base and Arbitrum, supporting:

• HOT bridging to these networks with low fees

• HOT payments across chains and L2 payouts for HoloPort hosts

• HOT integration into RainDEX, so trading strategies and DeFi tools can emerge with real-world grounding

You’ve waited for utility. For real pathways to use. This is the beginning of that future.

🔁 Faster transactions & lower fees: Use HOT where it’s cheapest and fastest

💧 Liquidity and DeFi use: RainDEX and others can begin using HOT in real strategies

🌍 Cross-chain flexibility: Bring HOT where you need it—without compromise

🛠️ Developer enablement: Build on this bridge. Explore new use cases.

Coming shortly after this launch, we’ll open a small liquidity pool on Uniswap to begin seeding price discovery and supporting strategy experimentation. This next step is designed to invite early community participation. Stay tuned in the coming days for our companion post: “From Holding to Building” that will go deeper into the details and offer more ways for the HOT community to give feedback and participate.

HOT is now omnichain. But more importantly, it’s on-chain—for you.

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