appchain = sovereign execution, permanent liquidity problem
every isolated chain starts at zero
same LPs, same capital, split across a hundred walled gardens
spreads stay wide. arb bots eat the rest.
general-purpose chains don't have that problem
liquidity compounds
LP positions become collateral
orderbook depth feeds aggregators feeds more flow
appchains optimized for sovereignty
they gave up depth to get there
this is not a UX complaint
it's structural: fragmented settlement = fragmented price discovery = permanently worse execution
hanji deploys on Monad, Base, Etherlink
a CLOB on a chain with aggregated flow is a different product than a CLOB in a silo
orderbooks win long-term
but only if the chain underneath lets depth compound