Swell Network, the prominent liquid staking and restaking protocol backed by Framework Ventures and IOSG Ventures, has officially published the final engineering roadmap for the public mainnet activation of **Swell Chain**, an innovative restaked Layer 2 blockchain built using Polygon CDK and AltLayer.
Embedding Restaking Yield into Layer 2 Mechanics
While conventional Layer 2 rollups require users to pay gas in volatile non-yielding native tokens, Swell Chain reimagines rollup economics:
- **Native Restaking Yield Gas Subsidies**: Capital deposited on Swell Chain earns native proof-of-stake rewards and EigenLayer shared security yield simultaneously, offsetting operational gas costs for ecosystem users.
- **Polygon CDK AggLayer Interoperability**: Swell Chain connects to Polygon's Aggregated Blockchains layer (AggLayer), facilitating instantaneous, trustless cross-chain liquidity sharing with other CDK rollups without wrapped bridge risks.
- **rswETH Liquid Restaking Core**: The protocol's premier liquid restaked asset, rswETH, serves as the economic security backbone of the network's sequencer consortium.
"Swell Chain represents the convergence of liquid restaking with modular Layer 2 scalability," noted the Swell Foundation. "Users no longer have to choose between earning staking yields on Ethereum L1 or accessing low-cost transactions on an L2."
The Final Voyage and $SWELL Airdrop Distribution
Swell is concluding its **Voyage** campaign. Community participants who hold Pearls, mint rswETH, and bridge early liquidity into the Swell Chain pre-launch portal will receive their genesis $SWELL allocations during the upcoming Token Generation Event.
