In the Blockchain week of Paris, Beincrypto fed up Down with Andrey Fedorov, the Chief Marketing Officer and acting main business development officer at Ston.fi, to dive deep into the mission, roadmap and wider views of the platform over the Defi sector.
Andrey Fedorov shared insights into how omniston, a liquidity aggregation protocol developed by ston.fi, is intended to simplify and then simplify and streamline the decentralized liquidity access about the Ton Blockchain. It presents a uniform integration point for Defi apps, liquidity providers and users.
Andrey Fedorov on Omniston
Omniston is a decentralized liquidity aggregation protocol that connects Defi apps with Ton Liquidity. This protocol is built for the Ton Blockchain, which means that when users want to exchange to Ton -based tokens, Omniston finds the best deals. I would say that this is a protocol and not an exchange in itself, but it connects apps, for example for some fairs, portfolios, games, some other apps that have access to liquidity. So there are users in these apps who want to exchange and exchange tokens.
Andrey Fedorov in Paris Blockchain Week
Defi-apps usually have to find and integrate different liquidity sources and integrate a process that is time-consuming, complex and often expensive due to the integration work involved. That is where omniston enters. In short, instead of connecting with five or ten different liquidity sources one by one, you only integrate one for once with omniston. It is just like this one plug-in point.
So when a Defi app connects to Omniston, it automatically gets access to all these different liquidity sources that are already connected. And it works both sides – liquidity providers, market makers and everyone who has liquidity, they also get access to the user base of those apps.
And the cool thing is that everyone can connect to Omniston. If you have access to liquidity, whether it is on the chain (such as liquidity pools or safes) or off-chain (such as private funds), you can integrate via omniston. This makes your liquidity available for all apps connected to Omniston.
As a result, users benefit from deeper liquidity and liquidity providers can earn yields by operating those users. We use the term “liquidity providers” broadly – it includes market makers and other entities that can provide liquidity.
About Omniston’s route map
At the moment, Omniston is mainly focused on offering access – so we do not charge anything at this stage. The idea is to stimulate use. We want people to connect and start building it. Liquidity providers can already earn money, and the same applies to Defi apps – they can build on top of Omniston and make their own income models.
Regarding generating income on our side, we think it will come, but probably not in the traditional ‘pay-to-use’ way. We were just launched about a month ago, so it’s still very early. The priority at the moment is adoption. We want more apps connected, more liquidity providers on board. As soon as we set up that, we explore options for generating income – but that does not necessarily mean that we will charge across the board.
The Ston.fi team is still done with KPIs. We test it live – this is a working product – so we think of the numbers while we go. But if I had to call one core metr’sism at the moment, it’s connectivity. We want to connect as many applications as possible and collect as much liquidity as possible. That is the North Star for us.
Looking at the route map, is the next big step cross-chain swaps. Omniston is currently running on the Ton Blockchain, but we have already built the architecture for cross-chain functionality and we test it active. In the coming months we will work on integration tests.
Of course we take it step by step. The next chain will probably be Tron and then we will go to EVM ecosystems. But it will not all be at the same time – we gradually roll this out.
Ton – The ideal blockchain for omniston?
There are two reasons why we chose Ton. First, it is a technically strong blockchain. Secondly, it quickly becomes the native chain of Telegram, which has a huge user base of more than a billion people.
Ton helps us access these huge markets. A technically strong blockchain plus a huge market fits well. Moreover, the Ton -Ecosystem offers solid support for developers and growing resources, making it a fascinating platform to build.
I would also add that the Ton Ecosystem is growing very fast, with strong support from the Ton Foundation. Moreover, with so many projects on the chain they make good documentation that shows the use cases and so on. For developers who build on Ton, this means that they not only benefit from the strong support, but also from the collective experience and the momentum of the wider community – which is incredibly valuable.
The impact of crypto and blockchain regulations
First of all, I don’t think regulation in itself is a limitation. It is something that we keep a close eye on, and we take into account all the legal developments as we grow.
I would say that Europe has made some progress here because of mica. Regulation in the United States is fragmented, but we still have to keep a close eye on them. Our goal is to stay fully in accordance with – and we see that as necessary and inevitable.
Promising cryptom rends
Everyone talks about AI agents. The concept is absolutely convincing and has a strong future potential, but the challenge is that there are not many clear, practical user scenarios. What we have to do now is find these good use cases, and at the moment I would say that there are not many. That’s the problem. But again, we have to keep a close eye on this space.
From what I understand, AI agents are already used to evaluate whether there is a balance in the market. It is interesting to use them for this specific test case, but this is only one. It is the most obvious.
There is absolute room to explore more impactful ways to combine AI with crypto. It is an area that is worth studying closely, and although we are still in the early stages, I see no fundamental limitations that stop us.
