Exclusive Interview with Saga Co-Founder Rebecca: The Origins, Technology, Vision of Saga, and 100+ Potential Airdrops
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Exclusive Interview with Saga Co-Founder Rebecca: The Origins, Technology, Vision of Saga, and 100+ Potential Airdrops
Understanding Saga: Origin, Technology, Vision, and 100+ Potential Airdrop Opportunities
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsInterview and translation: Alex Liu, Foresight News
Saga is a Layer 1 protocol that enables developers to automatically create virtual machine-agnostic, parallelized, interoperable dedicated chains—called "Chainlets"—delivering infinite horizontal scalability for applications. Its mainnet officially launched yesterday, with the token surging on major exchanges, peaking at 7.89 USDT and reaching a fully diluted valuation (FDV) of nearly $8 billion.
Before it debuted on Binance Launchpool—breaking historical records for total value locked and number of participants in the event—and delivered strong post-listing price performance, Saga had drawn relatively little attention. Suddenly, Chinese-speaking communities were filled with questions like, "What is this project, and why is it so impressive?"
Prior to this, Foresight News conducted an exclusive interview with Rebecca Liao, CEO and co-founder of Saga, discussing Saga’s origins, technology, vision, and over 100 potential airdrop opportunities. We hope this article arrives just in time to clarify these questions through deep dialogue and help you truly understand Saga.
Below is the full interview:
Foresight News: Thank you for joining us. Before founding Saga, you worked as a lawyer and in AI-related tech firms and political teams. Could you briefly introduce yourself and share why you eventually entered the blockchain space and founded Saga?
Rebecca: My career has always centered around development economics. While working at Globality, my first AI startup, I was introduced to Bitcoin and blockchain, recognizing their clear potential to democratize financial services. This sparked my first strong desire to start a company, leading me to co-found Skuchain with Zaki Manian—a DeFi project focused on real-world assets (RWAs).
By 2020, its annual transaction volume reached $5 billion. In 2021, I left the company to pursue a potential government role but ultimately decided to stay in the crypto industry. Saga was born from the desire to give developers a complete end-to-end (E2E) blockchain experience—which didn’t exist before. A system where L1s can create L1s enables infinite scalability while keeping the front end free, allowing Web3 developers to finally build applications capable of mass adoption. Since then, we’ve focused on the use cases most in need of such infrastructure: gaming and entertainment. Saga’s vision is to provide a space for those bold enough to chase their wildest dreams—a place that celebrates freedom and creative expression.
Foresight News: You mentioned on X that you’ve known Zaki (a core contributor to Cosmos) for ten years and previously contributed to Cosmos projects. Why did you choose the Cosmos SDK to build your project?
Rebecca: Zaki and I were co-founders at Skuchain. After he began building Cosmos, I recognized both the power of this technology and its challenges. Not everyone wants a sovereign, independent appchain, but using dedicated blockspace to scale applications is the future of blockchain apps. That’s why we chose to build Saga on the Cosmos SDK.
Cosmos remains the only stack that natively supports multi-chain environments, understands the complexities of decentralized blockchain construction, and offers fast bridging and cross-chain interoperability. All other scaling solutions—including rollups and variations of appchains—are still catching up to the technical depth of the Cosmos SDK.
Foresight News: Many people categorize Saga within the modular blockchain landscape. Do you think this classification is accurate? Or would BaaS be more appropriate?
Rebecca: From a technical standpoint, yes, Saga can indeed be classified under the modular umbrella, as it focuses on providing dedicated blockchain solutions and has the capability to offer validation services for blockchains built on Saga and sequencing services for modular rollups. Furthermore, our collaborations with Celestia and later with Polygon demonstrate our adaptability and ability to deliver critical infrastructure across Web3, solidifying our position within the modular blockchain ecosystem.
It's accurate to classify Saga in the modular space, but it's worth emphasizing that describing Saga as BaaS (Blockchain-as-a-Service) isn't more fitting. Unlike traditional BaaS models, Saga emphasizes dedicated blockspace and the ability to auto-instantiate dedicated chains, aligning more closely with a modular blockchain framework that enables scalability and flexibility when deploying specialized blockchain solutions.
Foresight News: What are the differences between Chainlets built on Saga and RollApps built on Dymension? And what does 'infinite horizontal scalability' mean?
Rebecca: The differences between Chainlets built on Saga and RollApps built on Dymension are significant.
Thanks to our platform’s protocols, Chainlets built on Saga can automatically launch fully decentralized dedicated chains. Cross-chain communication (IBC) and fast bridging enable seamless interoperability between Chainlets, the Saga main chain, and other blockchains. This delivers infinite performance and scalability, making it an ideal solution for developers seeking modular and scalable blockchain infrastructure.
In contrast, RollApps on Dymension focus on transaction settlement, consensus, and execution, relying on external providers for data availability, execution environments, and liquidity. Unlike Saga’s Chainlets, Dymension RollApps operate within a fully modular framework, offering flexible choices for DA providers and execution environments to meet specific application needs—but adding complexity. Since Dymension lacks a native settlement layer, it doesn’t achieve fast finality, which means no fast bridging or high-level interoperability.
Chainlets on Saga also offer developers a pricing model based on commodity-grade blockspace. Our economic model doesn’t aim to bundle together the prices of multiple protocols in a fully modular stack. Instead, we prioritize zero upfront costs so developers can monetize freely while end users pay zero gas fees to Saga. Given that Chainlet fees are the only cost in the system, this should represent the most economical development path.
Infinite horizontal scalability is central to Saga’s philosophy—all Chainlets are parallelized instances of application-specific chains, enabling apps to scale elastically to their maximum performance and speed, meeting the demand for limitless scalability within the blockchain ecosystem. Now you can see why Saga is particularly attractive to gaming and entertainment.
Foresight News: What’s your view on the current progress and future prospects of Web3 gaming?
Rebecca: We envision Web3 gaming evolving toward early forms of a multiverse, emphasizing mods and creators’ roles in shaping game IPs. The industry will shift focus toward harnessing community power and creative expression, rather than solely relying on production value. This signals that the coming years will be exciting and transformative for Web3 gaming. A concrete example of current progress: rising user adoption. The Web3 gaming market continues to grow, with increasing numbers of active unique wallets and expanding market share. A strong illustration is that 80% of the 300+ projects built on Saga fall into the gaming category. X-to-Earn applications further empower players to leverage their skills and playtime, creating a more engaging and profitable environment for everyone.
Foresight News: Why should games be built on blockchain? And why deploy on their own L1 instead of sharing an Ethereum L2 like Immutable? How do you solve liquidity issues in cross-chain trading of virtual assets? Will there be a unified marketplace?
Rebecca: Games built on blockchain gain true ownership of in-game assets, decentralized economies, and enhanced security. Blockchain allows developers to offer players verifiably scarce assets, provable ownership, and secure cross-platform trading. Unlike games deployed together on an Ethereum L2, building a game on its own L1 via Saga gives developers greater control over the game’s ecosystem. This approach provides dedicated blockspace, scalability, and community-driven governance, enabling customized experiences and efficient interactions within the game environment.
Saga addresses liquidity challenges in cross-chain trading of virtual items by providing dedicated infrastructure that enables seamless interoperability between Chainlets, the Saga main chain, and other blockchains. This facilitates fluid asset transfers and interoperability, overcoming the liquidity constraints typically associated with cross-chain transactions.
Saga’s focus on fostering collaboration and expanding the multiverse demonstrates the potential for a unified marketplace. By centering on community-generated content and decentralized control over games, the platform makes such a future seem not only possible but likely.
Foresight News: Saga is currently focusing heavily on the gaming ecosystem. What unique advantages attract these GameFi projects? Will Saga expand beyond gaming in the future?
Rebecca: Clearly, our breakthrough innovations in infrastructure have attracted GameFi projects. The first phase of our mainnet allows developers to automatically launch fully decentralized dedicated chains (Chainlets) on Saga. This enables them to leverage IBC for free interoperability among Chainlets, Saga, and other chains, delivering infinite performance and scalability. Additionally, the Saga Multiverse Summit showcased a growing community of innovators building games on Saga—including projects like Shrapnel, Cosmic Exodus, and AILAND—offering novel and immersive gaming experiences. While Saga is currently focused on the gaming ecosystem, our mission is to break down barriers in Web3 so creators can focus on creation without having to build backend systems themselves. It’s evident that by enabling automatic deployment of parallelized and interoperable dedicated chains, we will expand into other domains such as entertainment and decentralized finance.
Foresight News: Saga is an L1 that issues L1s—an enterprise-facing (to B) project—yet places exceptional emphasis on community. What does community mean to Saga?
Rebecca: Community is vital to Saga—it represents a diverse network of creators, developers, and advocates. It’s the heart of creativity, innovation, and support for individuals pursuing their visions within the Saga ecosystem. Without our community, there would be no project. It’s the core of our user base, the foundation of our market outreach, and a key factor in attracting games and other applications. It’s precisely because we have such a vibrant community that applications are drawn to us.
Our mission is to become the place where crazy dreamers can realize their wildest dreams, and I believe we’ve already made significant progress toward that goal.
Foresight News: Some community members say the airdrop rules are relatively complex, resulting in few actually qualifying. Saga has announced a second-phase airdrop for SAGA stakers. Will users who didn’t qualify in phase one—including many long-term stakers—have another chance?
Rebecca: We will soon release the full conditions for the second season of our airdrop campaign. All unclaimed first-season airdrops will be distributed to SAGA stakers in the second season. Additionally, we’ve teased our stakers with over 100 confirmed airdrops from partners. The total number of eligible wallets in Season One was 200,000—a healthy figure. These wallets must be spread across our key technical partners, including Cosmos, Celestia, Avalanche, and Polygon, as well as our community, ecosystem builders, and gamers participating in our Play-to-Airdrop events. Given the large number of stakeholders involved, the airdrop criteria needed to be designed broadly.
Foresight News: After the mainnet launch, what will be the focus for Saga’s development? What can players and token stakers look forward to?
Rebecca: We will complete all six phases of the mainnet rollout, launch games through Saga Origins, continue onboarding new projects into our Innovator Program—currently home to 350 projects—and execute over 100 airdrops for our stakers. Final statistics will be disclosed in the press release accompanying the mainnet launch.
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