We’re excited to introduce Soul Protocol, a new DeFi primitive, now live on Testnet! The first unified, omnichain liquidity layer connecting cross-chain money markets. Supply anywhere. Borrow anywhere. Seamlessly, across any chain and protocol. 🧵

We’re creating a world where liquidity moves as freely as users do. Connect the liquidity. Remove the boundaries. Keep building. Appreciate the coverage, @CryptoDiffer.

Built for day one. Congrats to the Pulsar team on the milestone. 🔥

Arda has walked closely alongside us during our development journey to ensure a smooth and secure launch of the go-to Omni-Chain liquidity hub that Soul aims to be. We are thankful for the insights and expertise provided from their side so far, and we look forward to continuing this collaboration in the future. 🤝 We are currently preparing the deployment of the latest state of our smart contracts. This covers our newest optimizations and improvements, including the new Cross-Chain liquidation model, simplifications in Cross-Chain transactions, the rewards module, and the latest state of the lending protocol! 🔥 We are now one step closer to our long-awaited mainnet deployment! 🍾

Time to wrap up another year in our journey! 2025 has been one of the best years in Soul’s story so far. What began as a late-night idea in 2023 became something real this year, with the Soul Testnet going live and our community showing up in a massive way. Since launch, over 290,000 unique wallets have interacted with Soul, and we have seen more than 6 million transactions run through the protocol, proof that what we build matters. It shows there is real demand for a smoother, more connected DeFi experience, and we are just getting started. In hindsight, 2025 was also a shift for crypto itself. Less noise, more building. Less chasing narratives, more about shipping products. The space is maturing, and the teams that execute are starting to stand out. Behind the scenes, we leveled up fast. We kept raising the bar, tightening the product, and pushing forward with the kind of focus that only comes when you know the mission matters. Step by step, Soul is becoming stronger, cleaner, and more ready for what comes next. To everyone who tested, shared feedback, supported, partnered, or simply believed early: thank you. You helped shape Soul at every step, and we do not take that for granted. And if 2025 was the year we proved we can build, 2026 will be the year Soul breaks through. Bigger product moments. Bigger growth. Bigger milestones. The entire Soul team wishes you all a Happy New Year! See you all in 2026! ( )

Innovation in DeFi happens in siloed ecosystems with limited scalability. UX and opportunities are fragmented, and users are forced to miss out by design. Every time you interact with DeFi, you’re asked to compromise between security, flexibility, and opportunity. You park your capital in one protocol on one chain and moments later you’re asking yourself: “Is it worth the risk and hassle to move to another chain just for better yield?” In Web3, capital freedom and liquidity efficiency are some of the most critical bottlenecks. They break one of the core promises of the “free markets” Web3 was supposed to unlock. If your capital cannot flow freely without painful compromises, the underlying technology is handicapping you. That’s why we set out to build Soul. Soul is your unified omnichain liquidity layer connecting cross-chain money markets built to unlock: • Capital efficiency – participate across ecosystems and capture the best yield for your capital, while always using native assets. • Capital freedom – use your collateral borrowing power without borders, across multiple ecosystems and protocol and most importantly, without compromising the security of your underlying assets. • Unified control – maximize your yield across platforms from a single, safe interface where you stay in control at every step. All the freedom, without the compromises. That is Soul! ( )

There’s clear proof that on-chain lending is one of the strongest verticals in DeFi. Over $75B are locked in lending markets today. But everything works in isolation, so users can’t access the best opportunities yet. We’re building the unified liquidity layer to fix this. ( )

The Genesis of Soul came from the same simple insight that @blocmates shares: every blockchain is like a country with its own economy. Each chain has pillars that drive growth, and one of the most widely used products on every chain is the lending protocol. The Problem Lending protocols operate in isolation on each chain, fragmenting capital and creating inefficiency. Users miss better rates, must move funds manually across chains to deposit in different lending markets, and face additional operational risk. With the launch of @LayerZero_Core cross-chain messaging, on-chain economies became far more interoperable, and several lending protocols built novel concepts on top of this. Yet the core issue persisted. Most solutions adopted a hub-and-spoke model that interconnected their own products but did not create an interoperable lending market across protocols and chains. Our Approach At Soul, we do not build a new lending protocol. We aggregate leading lending protocols and give users one unified interface to discover, compare, and execute. This means lending and borrowing are no longer confined to a single chain or a single app. A user can borrow on a protocol on chain A while using collateral on a protocol on chain B. We have chosen @LayerZero_Core as our default messaging layer to track positions across chains and present a unified view of a user’s lending portfolio as it should be: unified and accessible from anywhere. Soul will never compete with another lending protocol. We are the neutral liquidity layer for lending. We integrate leading markets, route capital to where it earns most, and offer a chain-agnostic interface that can onboard any protocol now or later. Our rule is simple: lend anywhere, borrow anywhere!

A resilient protocol requires powerful infrastructure. We are actively working with @pisquared for the implementation of their Fast Set into Soul's modular architecture. We are only starting, the best is yet to come!🔥