Briefing
UXLINK has launched its “One Account One Gas” (OAOG) protocol on the UXLINK ONE Chain, a dedicated Optimistic Rollup, directly addressing the critical friction of complex user onboarding and multi-chain gas payments in decentralized social applications. This architectural shift leverages account abstraction to simplify the user journey, allowing users to transact across multiple chains while paying all gas fees with the native UXLINK token. The primary consequence is the conversion of a vast social graph into an active on-chain user base, evidenced by the protocol’s current scale of over 54 million registered users, positioning it as a foundational social infrastructure layer.
Context
The decentralized application landscape has long suffered from a product gap defined by high user friction, particularly within the social vertical. Prior to this innovation, a user’s journey into Web3 social required managing multiple wallet accounts, bridging assets, and acquiring specific native tokens to cover gas fees on different Layer 1 and Layer 2 networks. This complexity created a significant barrier to entry, preventing the large-scale conversion of mainstream social users into active, on-chain participants. The prevailing model prioritized protocol purity over user experience, hindering the formation of defensible network effects based on seamless identity and activity.
Analysis
The OAOG protocol fundamentally alters the application layer’s user incentive and retention structures by integrating social identity with on-chain functionality. This system uses an account abstraction-like mechanism to allow users to sign in with familiar Web2 social accounts (e.g. Telegram, X) while abstracting the underlying wallet and gas payment complexity. The protocol’s ability to subsidize or unify gas payment via a single token ($UXLINK) creates a powerful flywheel for user retention.
Competing protocols relying on traditional wallet-and-gas models face immediate pressure to simplify their onboarding funnels. This new primitive establishes the social graph as a true asset layer, enabling developers to build new dApps on the UXLINK ONE Chain that inherit the existing 54 million user base, driving a superior network effect and composability across the ecosystem.
Parameters
- Total Users Acquired ∞ 54 Million Users ∞ The current size of the UXLINK social graph and registered user base, signaling significant product-market fit.
- Protocol Architecture ∞ Optimistic Rollup L2 ∞ The chosen scaling solution for the UXLINK ONE Chain, prioritizing low-cost, high-throughput social transactions.
- Core Feature ∞ One Account One Gas ∞ The mechanism enabling cross-chain gas payment using a single token, simplifying the user’s operational complexity.
Outlook
The next phase of UXLINK’s roadmap involves full mainnet deployment of the UXLINK ONE Chain and the expansion of the AI Growth Layer, which will empower dApps to leverage the social graph for targeted user acquisition. This “social-native” L2 model is highly forkable, yet the established network of 54 million users creates a significant competitive moat that is difficult for competitors to overcome solely through code. The OAOG primitive is poised to become a foundational building block for other consumer-facing dApps, transforming the decentralized social graph into a core utility layer for identity and transaction routing across the broader Web3 ecosystem.
