Bybit x Mantle Live Recap | Unveiling the Mantle 2.0 Vision: New Advisors, New Frontiers, and a New Vision
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Bybit x Mantle Live Recap | Unveiling the Mantle 2.0 Vision: New Advisors, New Frontiers, and a New Vision
The team will regularly report progress and achievements to advance Mantle into a new phase of globalization, institutionalization, and large-scale adoption.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insights
On August 14, 2025, global leading cryptocurrency exchange Bybit and Ethereum Layer2 public chain Mantle held their first joint livestream on X, simultaneously announcing the Mantle 2.0 strategic vision to global and Chinese-speaking communities, revealing a comprehensive cooperation plan between Bybit and Mantle across ecological, technical, and market dimensions.
Bybit and Mantle Comprehensive Synergy Upgrade
At the start of the livestream, Bybit Co-CEO and co-founder Ben announced that Bybit Co-CEO Helen and Bybit Spot Head & Byreal founder Emily have officially joined Mantle as senior advisors and core contributors.
Ben reviewed Bybit's journey since initiating and incubating Mantle (formerly BitDAO) three years ago—then already possessing one of the world’s largest DAO treasuries, now exceeding $1 billion in assets, maintaining high activity and steady growth within the Layer2 sector.
He emphasized that the global regulatory environment is improving, with Europe’s MiCA framework and U.S. stablecoin legislation signaling traditional finance’s embrace of Web3. Bybit has achieved full compliance, and its next focus is driving mass user adoption into Web3, aligning perfectly with Mantle’s mission of “bridging Web2 and Web3.”
Mantle 2.0 Vision: Institutional-Grade Liquidity Infrastructure
Emily publicly unveiled Mantle 2.0’s brand and strategic positioning:
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Core identity: Mantle will continue as the “Liquidity Chain,” enhancing flexibility and scalability through modular architecture to maximize on-chain capital efficiency, capturing the macro trend of tokenization and asset onboarding;
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Strategic positioning: Mantle is not an ordinary Layer2 but an institutional-grade infrastructure layer targeting the next wave of Web3 mass adoption, aiming to become the core hub for RWA onboarding;
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Development direction: While preserving EVM ecosystem advantages, strengthen interoperability with non-EVM ecosystems (e.g., Solana), forming cross-ecosystem deployment.
Helen added that Mantle will leverage its high-speed, stable infrastructure strengths to attract cross-chain projects and exchange partnerships, forming deep synergy with Bybit to bring more ecosystem partners onto the Mantle chain.
Short-Term Priorities
Rui, Investment Director at Hashkey Capital, asked about the “first three moves of a newly appointed official.” Helen outlined three clear priority tasks:
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Maximize Bybit platform resources to empower Mantle—including fee discounts, additional trading pairs, loans, VIP benefits—so MNT gains platform-level utility value;
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Establish Mantle as an efficient and stable infrastructure—capturing RWA tokenization opportunities and listing quality assets via Bybit;
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Cross-chain application infrastructure—led by Emily—to expand Mantle’s connectivity with other ecosystems, attracting more users and assets.
Emily added that regarding the community’s top concern—“how can MNT holders profit?”—Mantle will strategically introduce high-quality assets, combining liquidity and market expectations from Bybit to create profitable opportunities. She stressed that the Mantle chain itself is a product requiring clear target users and matching use cases, rather than being “for everyone.”
Synergy in Action: Full-Stack Integration from Trading to Payments
The MNT token and Mantle use cases will be fully integrated into the Bybit ecosystem:
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Trading: Launch more MNT trading pairs and MNT options products; roll out new structured products such as Smart Leverage, Double Win, and OTC trading.
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Fees and privileges: Plan to include MNT in fee discounts and VIP tier upgrades.
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Spending and payments: MNT can directly pay for tickets to events like the CCCC conference; MNT will also be integrated into payment products such as Bybit Card and Bybit Pay.
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Institutional and retail: Offer more MNT-based loans, lending, and financial products for both institutional and retail users.
Helen emphasized that these empowerment measures are progressing within compliance frameworks, with short-term implementations including OTC trading support and Leverage无忧.
RWA Strategy: Institutional-Grade Asset Onboarding Channel
RWA will be Mantle’s core strategic focus over the coming months. Joshua, Product Lead at Mantle Network, emphasized that the collaboration between Mantle and Bybit goes far beyond “chain × exchange,” targeting one of Web3’s biggest growth areas—RWA. The total addressable market for RWA significantly exceeds other crypto subfields. With access to Bybit’s infrastructure, Mantle can provide secure, compliant, scalable “tracks” for institutional-grade asset onboarding, bringing new liquidity, products, and participants into the on-chain world. The team aims this year to become a leading-scale ZK-secured chain, strengthening institutional-grade security and finality settlement capabilities to serve as foundational trust for RWA and institutional use cases.
He noted that existing Mantle DApps in DeFi, NFTs, and GameFi can directly benefit from this RWA strategy by integrating real-world assets with on-chain products; meanwhile, this infrastructure opens space for new developers to build innovative applications.
Helen and Emily also stated that Mantle will actively onboard TradFi assets, tokenize them on-chain, and distribute them via Bybit as a centralized gateway, creating a closed loop from asset onboarding → liquidity and products → user reach. This will deliver higher-quality asset choices and liquidity sources for both DeFi and CeFi users.
MNT: Empowerment, Governance, and Supply Mechanism
Addressing community concerns about the token, the team responded comprehensively:
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Platform status: MNT is not a Bybit platform token, but Bybit will empower it across multiple products and scenarios.
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Supply mechanism: Decisions on whether to burn MNT will be made through DAO proposals and community voting. A large amount of tokens was previously burned during the BitDAO-to-Mantle migration, and the team is researching long-term supply reduction mechanisms. Regarding the recent community discussion around OKB burning, Helen noted that Mantle differs from OKX in nature, with a broader ecosystem and more external partnership opportunities.
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Incentive quality: Adjust inflation models and improve incentive program quality to ensure MNT collaborates only with high-quality projects, avoiding association with low-quality ones.
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Holder benefits: Off-chain participation in products such as Launchpool, Megadrop, and Launchpad; on-chain governance via DAO for treasury management, plus enhanced utility across DeFi use cases.
Differentiated Competition and Developer Opportunities
During the Q&A, Rui compared Base’s traffic advantage via Coinbase. Helen and Emily highlighted Mantle’s competitive moat: the DAO-held treasury, solid technology, exchange-driven high liquidity, genuine user base, and multi-jurisdiction compliance advantages. Mantle will progressively break through in its core strengths, efficiently synergizing these resources to attract more high-quality projects to deploy on the Mantle chain.
Additionally, to enhance developer attraction and support, the Mantle EcoFund and Grants programs will continue operating, focusing on supporting startup teams in the RWA space and leveraging Bybit’s global user base to provide launch traffic and liquidity support.
Team Goals and Future Outlook
The team will set KPIs around three key directions:
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Blockchain level: TVL, active addresses, on-chain transaction volume, new users;
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CEX integration: Progress in listings and integrations across multiple exchanges;
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Ecosystem expansion: Growth of on-chain DeFi projects and cross-ecosystem influence.
In closing, Ben summarized: “The collaboration between Mantle and Bybit is a full-stack, deep synergy—from asset onboarding, product implementation, to global user expansion—forming a closed loop.” The team will regularly report progress and results, advancing Mantle toward a new phase of globalization, institutionalization, and mass adoption. We hereby call on the community and developers to actively participate in building the Mantle × Bybit infrastructure and seize the long-term growth opportunities brought by RWA and cross-ecosystem collaboration.
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