# Permissionlessly Connecting the Modular Future with Jim Chang

- Channel: [Ethereum Denver](https://streameth.org/ethereum-denver)
- Date: 2023-10-07
- Duration: 16:43
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-5Am7wK2JbHw
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Am7wK2JbHw

## Description

The modular blockchain thesis allows for the lightweight, programmatic creation of blockchains. The future of crypto will be “hyper-chain” where every application protocol will have its own application-specific modular environment—whether it be an app-chain or an app-rollup. The missing piece to this modular future is liquidity. To date, no modular blockchain solution has solved the issue of connecting liquidity from one modular instance to another. It's a major deterrent to the vision of a modular future with millions of application-specific environments.

This hyper-chain world must converge on one simple, sustainable, and secure liquidity layer that connects all these disparate environments together permissionlessly. Every new application-specific environment will have automatic liquidity connected to other environments through a brand new primitive called Catalyst.

Jim Chang
Co-Founder
Catalyst
Jim is the co-founder of Catalyst, the cross-chain DEX for the modular future. He's also a member of PleasrDAO. Before then, he was the Head of Experiments at Aave Companies.

https://twitter.com/0xJim