Value and users are already fragmented across dozens of chains. How a network connects to the others determines whether it's an island or the connective tissue. The historical answer, bridges that lock and wrap assets, produced the single largest category of losses in crypto. An approach that moves authority rather than assets, letting one identity act natively on many chains without a bridge in the path, removes that attack surface. It turns interoperability into an extension of user control. In an agent economy that can't be confined to a single chain, this substrate decides who can transact where. @Itsfloe breaks down the approach of cross-chain interoperability in the most recent market intelligence report.(NEAR Protocol)