Berachain: The Beginning of the Endgame

2025.07.15

Berachain: The Beginning of the Endgame

This article will elaborate on Berachain's future development direction, key focus areas, and specific implementation pathways.

2025.07.15 - 01:23:00

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This article will elaborate on Berachain's future development direction, key focus areas, and specific implementation pathways.

Berachain: The Beginning of the Endgame

Berachain is entering a new phase—partly returning to its roots, partly seizing opportunities brought by an increasingly mature crypto market. From tokenomics optimization to ecosystem support and technological advancement, the foundation for exponential growth has been laid. This article outlines our future direction, key focus areas, and concrete implementation paths.

The Fat Bera Thesis

A year ago, building on excellent early thinking from the Honey Jar team in January 2023, we formulated the Fat Bera Thesis. The core idea: the most successful protocols will inscribe applications directly into chain rules via Proof of Liquidity (PoL), capturing value within the ecosystem and distributing it to all stakeholders.

Our confidence in this vision remains unshaken.

As traditional finance and tech converge with the crypto world, Berachain’s core thesis increasingly resonates with the intuition and needs of conventional growth investors.

Every public chain possesses a native resource—inflationary token emissions. Traditional PoS chains reward staking behavior with these tokens; Berachain’s PoL model directs such incentives toward a B2B2C growth trajectory within the ecosystem, empowering decentralized applications to drive user growth, revenue, TVL expansion, and broader economic vitality.

All of this ultimately flows back to $BERA and $BGT holders.

Just as Microsoft invests in Office integration or Apple expands the App Store, Berachain will continue channeling resources into building the strongest dApps—maximizing value for the protocol.

Blockchain 1.0 was Proof of Work
Blockchain 2.0 was Proof of Stake
We believe Blockchain 3.0 will be defined by Proof of Liquidity

This year, we expect many projects across the ecosystem to bear fruit—both well-known and stealth teams alike—generating millions in revenue, reaching millions of users, and delivering real returns to token holders.

Bera is building real businesses.

PoL: The Dual-Objective Core System

Proof of Liquidity (PoL) has always been Berachain’s central mechanism, designed to achieve two goals:

Accelerate development and growth of ecosystem projects;
Drive value for $BERA.

As the ecosystem matures, PoL will evolve—not through frequent overhauls that disrupt developers and the community—but via incremental optimizations that lower barriers, create self-reinforcing loops, and generate sustained value and buy pressure for $BERA.

We’ve already published a proposal on the forum for PoL V2—a minimal-disruption upgrade allowing part of PoL incentives to be used for BERA buybacks, with proceeds distributed to liquidity stakers. This will be the first chain-level step toward driving long-term token value.

Beyond PoL: Reviving Native DeFi

PoL is central to Berachain’s growth, but far from the whole story. We’re also returning to our original vision: rebooting native DeFi infrastructure.

Coming soon:

Expand HONEY Collateral: Add stablecoins like USDT to strengthen the stablecoin system (expected within 3 weeks)
Bend: Native on-chain lending protocol to improve capital efficiency and expand liquidity (expected within 4 weeks)
Berps: On-chain perpetual contracts protocol, currently in technical preparation

Beras and Barbells: Bridging On-Chain Finance with Traditional Business

Berachain’s long-term vision is to move crypto beyond niche status. As traditional financial players enter, we see:

One end: Web2 enterprises using Berachain as backend infrastructure (payments, RWAs, consumer products, etc.);
The other end: High-speed on-chain speculation and innovation (dApps, gamified finance, leveraged tools, etc.);
The middle: High-quality, institutional-grade DeFi infrastructure connecting both ends.

End users will range from retail micro-transactors to custodians of multi-billion-dollar tokenized assets.

BeaconKit: A More Powerful, Efficient Core VM

BeaconKit is Berachain’s core virtual machine—fully EVM-compatible, with deep performance and functional optimizations:

PoL Protocol Layer Integration (Q3 launch)
Optimized fee and gas market, expected to burn 1M BERA annually (Q3 launch)
Enhanced transaction throughput and execution speed (Q4 launch)

BeaconKit will enable the L1 itself to natively capture value, achieving economic self-sufficiency.

Resource Focus: Doubling Down on Winners

We’ll concentrate resources more sharply on supporting:

Projects with clear growth trajectories;
Products already generating revenue;
Founders with a track record of delivery;
Teams fully dedicated to Berachain.

This isn’t about exclusion—it’s about amplifying existing success. We still welcome new ideas, but will double down on proven paths.

Community & Communication: Returning to Bera Style

We’re reclaiming Berachain’s early tone—professional yet meme-savvy:

Foundation accounts restarting shitposting;
Bera-style promotion across social media;
Appointing global community leaders to host meetups and hackathons;
Launch of Build-A-Berathon in August.

Incentive Mechanism: C.R.I.M.E Framework Launches

The new community incentive framework will be called:

C.R.I.M.E: Community Rewards and Incentives for Meaningful Engagement

Rewards will be more precise and data-driven, based on:

On-chain user activity;
Total Value Locked (TVL);
Trading volume and fees;
Revenue or buyback volume generated using BERA;
Cultural impact and community health (as secondary metrics).

All rewards will be distributed over extended periods to ensure accountability and sustained contribution.

Build-A-Bera: The Gold Standard for On-Chain Incubation

Build-A-Bera (BaB) has already incubated some of the most impactful projects. Going forward, we’ll focus on:

Dedicated BD and dev support for top-tier projects;
Raising selection bar—only backing S-tier teams with highest potential;
“Fast Grants” rapid funding mechanism for early-stage ideas and developers from underserved regions.

Our goal: make Berachain the go-to chain for high-potential teams—where exceptional projects launch and scale.