Why GigaETH

Introduction

Why DeFi’s next phase is not about yield, but about making yield usable.

DeFi succeeded at proving a point and failed at becoming a product.

Over the last cycle, decentralized finance built an extraordinary amount of technical infrastructure: automated market makers, lending markets, liquid staking, restaking, synthetic assets. Capital became programmable, permissionless, and globally accessible. Yet for the majority of users, none of this translated into something that felt like money. DeFi produced yield, but it did not produce spendability.

This gap is not accidental. Traditional DeFi was architected around protocols, not people. Users were expected to understand wrappers, bridges, chains, staking derivatives, collateral ratios, liquidation thresholds, and governance risk. The burden of integration was pushed onto the user. As a result, DeFi became powerful but brittle, lucrative but unusable outside of speculative loops.

GigaETH starts from a different premise: yield-bearing capital should behave like money.

Today, hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of ETH-derived assets exist in the form of liquid staking tokens and their variants. These assets represent productive, yield-generating capital secured by Ethereum consensus. But they are fragmented across chains, protocols, and wrappers. To a retail user, sETH, wETH, pETH, restaked ETH, and their derivatives are indistinguishable abstractions with incompatible rules. To institutions, they are balance-sheet assets that cannot be operationalized for payments without complex risk and custody assumptions.

The result is dead capital. Valuable, productive, but locked behind UX and integration walls.

GigaETH is built to collapse this complexity into a single, coherent endpoint. It treats liquid staking tokens not as niche DeFi instruments, but as monetary infrastructure. Assets that already generate yield should not require users to unwind positions, exit DeFi, or re-enter centralized rails just to spend value in the real world.

The deeper insight is this: payments are not an add-on to DeFi. They are the forcing function that exposes its weaknesses. Lending protocols stop at “borrow”. Staking protocols stop at “yield”. Wallets stop at “hold”. None complete the loop from productive capital to everyday economic activity.

GigaETH completes that loop.

By unifying heterogeneous liquid staking assets into a single borrowing and payments surface, GigaETH allows users to retain yield exposure while accessing canonical ETH or USD-denominated liquidity for real-world spending. No manual unwinding. No chain-specific reasoning. No protocol-hopping.