Eclipse’s Vision: The Eclipse Economy

Earlier this week, we published the Eclipsian Dogma which reflects the values of our community. It touches on the collective journey of ecosystem building born out of real connections, shared goals, and something truly meaningful. These are the values encapsulated by our core community of Eclipsians: users and developers. But what is the end goal? Why are we building Solana on Ethereum?

Eclipse aims to be the best place for applications, and by extension, their users. Over the years, we have noticed the crypto industry has fallen into deep stagnation. Instead of developing truly innovative technology and category defining applications, participants have prioritized taking short cuts to generate wealth at the expense of others. Participants have failed to deliver on promises and drive real value for builders and users. Instead, we have highly cyclical trends with very little to show for our collective efforts to drive forward the future. This has generated a palpable degree of cynicism and fatigue.

But crypto can be so much more than this. We aim to beckon in a new, golden era that reignites passion for innovation. We envision a future where developers feel genuinely excited to build once again and participants feel optimistic about the trajectory of the industry. Eclipse is not here to save Ethereum. We are here to save crypto.

And we do this by enabling the Eclipse Economy, which ushers in an entirely new economic paradigm at global scale. The Eclipse Economy will be the hub of economic activity for the entire world, not just crypto. It will recontextualize the concept of GDP for the modern developer that is building for a new, globally distributed userbase and consumer. And most importantly, it will be an economy that empowers its core constituents, Eclipsians, to dictate the terms of ownership and wealth generation.

Instead of focusing on decentralizing technology in the abstract, the Eclipse Economy will decentralize value creation.

Empowering the Developer

The first step in enabling the Eclipse Economy requires that we provide developers with the best place to build applications. In order to achieve this goal, our strategy for the year ahead is structured around three core pillars:

• GigaCompute: Limitless performance with near-instantaneous transactions and throughput that does not bottleneck applications from experimenting with new systems and mechanisms at grand scale.
• Best-in-Class Fee Economics: Facilitating a massive economy requires local fee markets so that applications’ economics are insulated from each other and black swan events. Finally, it redistributes fees and value so that applications, not the underlying infrastructure, reap the rewards of applications’ usage. This will enable applications to create and own sustainable revenue sources.
• Globally Relevant Distribution: Breakout applications require visibility. The addressable market in crypto today is too limited to a small set of applications with an even smaller set of native users. By combining accessibility tailored for a new economic paradigm with stellar distribution, Eclipse will become as relevant in the overarching cultural zeitgeist as Google or TikTok. Eclipse will function as a megaphone that broadcasts applications to users around the world.

Rewarding the User

While providing the best place for application developers, the Eclipse Economy will also give users robust benefits and access to ample financial opportunities. Instead of extracting value from users, it will pass value directly to them. This will manifest in three major ways:

• Asset Accessibility: As the intersection of Solana and Ethereum, Eclipse is uniquely positioned to enable a global economy with access to all the key assets that people demand as collateral/payment. Ease of access to collateral types is essential in a healthy, evolving economy. The number of assets available on Eclipse will continue to expand as creators and consumers exchange value in whatever asset is most efficient for them.. This also means that the Eclipse Economy will be the hub of new asset issuance where participants directly benefit from contributing to the economy.
• Extraordinarily Low Transaction Costs: Solana on Ethereum will provide minimal and miniscule fees for transactions so that users pay less than a penny to send, receive, and collateralize their assets. While participants exchange a variety of asset classes and types enabled uniquely by Eclipse technology, they will be able to do so while spending a fraction of the cost they would pay elsewhere.
• Accessibility at Your Fingertips: As more breakout applications emerge, Eclipse will continue to optimize for a seamless and accessible experience. We will solve app discoverability and improve UX to usher in unprecedented access to applications at any time and any location.

Become an Eclipsian and Join the Eclipse Economy

In 2024, Eclipse was scaled from 0 to 1. In 2025 and beyond, Eclipse will grow to 100. The Eclipse Economy will give participants a reason to feel passionate and optimistic about the trajectory of crypto once again.

In the coming weeks, Eclipse Labs will be publishing a product roadmap to dive into exactly how they plan to build technology that enables the Eclipse Economy over the coming years. There is much to be done to steward in this new future. Join us in this journey to propel this industry forward.

Get Involved in the Eclipse Economy

Just follow these 3 steps:

1. Download Backpack Wallet or OKX Wallet
2. Create an Eclipse account inside your new wallet
3. Bridge from ETH mainnet to Eclipse

Join the Eclipse Community

Join us on Discord and X for real-time updates from the Eclipse team:

• The Official Eclipse Discord
• Follow Eclipse Foundation on X
• Follow Eclipse Labs on X

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