Rainbow adding Sonic and Linea in the same day isn’t just “more chain support.”
It’s a sign that chains themselves are starting to fade into the background.
Most wallets treat each new chain like a new problem to solve. Rainbow treated these two (which couldn’t be more different) like simple plug-ins. That only happens when the heavy lifting is already done under the hood.
For Sonic and Linea to drop in this smoothly, a few things have to be true:
• @rainbowdotme reads every chain through the same indexing system • Quotes look the same no matter the VM or bridge • State checks use the same internal process • Execution feels identical to the user
When all of that lines up, adding a new chain stops being a big engineering project. It becomes a setting.
And that’s the shift happening here. Sonic is built for speed. Linea is built for zk security. But inside Rainbow, they feel the same to the user; fast, clean, and simple.
The future isn’t “how many chains does your wallet support.” It’s “how many chains does your wallet make invisible.”
When you can route a swap without thinking about where it happens, the wallet becomes the execution layer. Rainbow is moving straight toward that future.
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Rainbow adding Sonic and Linea in the same day isn’t just “more chain support.”
It’s a sign that chains themselves are starting to fade into the background.
Most wallets treat each new chain like a new problem to solve.
Rainbow treated these two (which couldn’t be more different) like simple plug-ins.
That only happens when the heavy lifting is already done under the hood.
For Sonic and Linea to drop in this smoothly, a few things have to be true:
• @rainbowdotme reads every chain through the same indexing system
• Quotes look the same no matter the VM or bridge
• State checks use the same internal process
• Execution feels identical to the user
When all of that lines up, adding a new chain stops being a big engineering project.
It becomes a setting.
And that’s the shift happening here.
Sonic is built for speed.
Linea is built for zk security.
But inside Rainbow, they feel the same to the user; fast, clean, and simple.
The future isn’t “how many chains does your wallet support.”
It’s “how many chains does your wallet make invisible.”
When you can route a swap without thinking about where it happens, the wallet becomes the execution layer.
Rainbow is moving straight toward that future.