The Good Tech Companies - Hotstuff Labs launches Hotstuff, a DeFi Native Layer 1 Connecting On-Chain Trading With Fiat Rails

Episode Date: December 8, 2025

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/hotstuff-labs-launches-hotstuff-a-defi-native-layer-1-connecting-on-chain-trading-with-fiat-rails. It pairs a highly performant on-chain order book with a programmable finance routing layer where validators act as last-mile gateways to trading, payments, rail Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3. You can also check exclusive content about #web3, #chainwire, #press-release, #blockchain-development, #crypto-exchange, #defi-guide, #layer1-blockchain, #good-company, and more. This story was written by: @chainwire. Learn more about this writer by checking @chainwire's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Hotstuff L1 is a DeFi Layer 1 powered by DracoBFT, a custom-built consensus protocol. It pairs a highly performant on-chain order book with a programmable finance routing layer where validators act as last-mile gateways to trading, payments, rails.

This audio is presented by Hacker Noon, where anyone can learn anything about any technology. Hot Stuff Labs launches Hot Stuff, a defy native layer one connecting on chain trading with Fiat Rails. By Chainwire. Singapore, Singapore, December 5th, 2025, Chainwire, Hot Stuff Labs today announced the public test net for Hot Stuff L1, a defy layer one blockchain powered by Draco BFT, a custom-built consensus protocol. Hot Stuff L1 is a purpose-built chain that pairs a highly performant on chain order book with a programmable finance routing layer where validators act as last-mile gateways to

trading, payments, and fiatrails. Unlike general purpose chains, Hot Stuff L1 is designed as an Uber-style routing layer where validators deliver real-world financial access on demand. Hot Stuff Labs is backed by top-tier investors, including Delphi Digital, Dialectic, State Capital, Tiki Ventures and the founders of leading defy protocols such as 1-inch, safe, biconomy, socket, and more. Greater than Julian Bodilu, founder of State Capital Group, said, Hot Stuff Labs is greater than building a performant chain that links trading, payments, and real-world greater than settlement into one coherent layer. The vision is to enable validators to greater than become active financial access points. That aligns perfectly with how we see greater than the future of infrastructure,

decentralized, compliant, and directly plugged greater than into the global economy. Validators as financial access points beyond trading. Hot Stuff L1 is architected so validators can opt in Aspermission financial service providers. On Hot Stuff, validators aren't just for consensus, they act as global financial access points for both the core trading engine and end users. For the core trading engine, stable coin rails enable access to off-chain liquidity. For end users, validators unlock. last mile connectivity for fiat crypto on off ramps payments and fx use cases deep integrations with

leading payment platforms on off ramps banking partners and card programs baked into the chain enable validators to earn by powering fiat stable coin on off ramps enabling regional payment and remittance rails issuing or supporting cards and local accounts serving as last mile connectivity into different currencies and regions the chain matches users to specific validators based on state, performance history, and quality of service much like a routing layer combined with lightweight zero knowledge proofs for trustless verification of both on chain and off chain actions. Greater than, most chains validate blocks. Hot Stuff validates and delivers trustless access greater than to money. It's the Uber for financial validators, routing every

flow to the greater than right provider, said Viam Sharma, co-founder and CEO of Hot Stuff Labs. We're greater than building a layer one that can connect a trader in Asia, a remittance corridor in greater than Latam, and a card issuer in Europe on the same settlement fabric. Hot Stuff Public TestNet Now open the Hot Stuff L1 public test net is live and open to traders and quants can test early perp and spot trading, multi-venue vaults, and market infrastructure built directly on the core L1. Builders, FinTechs and stable coin infrastructure providers can partner with Hot Stuff Labs to enable new trading primitives, payments, FX, and settlement use cases. Validators and node operators can run DracoBFT nodes, benchmark performance, and

experiment with financial service modules. Get started website. HTTPS colon slash hotstuff. X. Twitter. Htttps.com slash trade hotstuff. DracoBFT white paper. Htttps.com slash hotstuff. Trade slash drakift.p. community and integrations. htttps colon slash slash discord.g slash trade hotstuff. Dot about hot stuff labs. Hotstuff Labs is building Hotstuff L1, a purpose-built defy layer one for programmable finance, powered by the Draco BFT Consensus Engine in a modular execution fabric. With deep experience across finance, consensus, trading, crypto economics, and protocol design, the team is creating a global routing layer that enables performant on chain trading and connects payments, remittance.

and Fiat Rails on a single, coherent chain. For press and partnerships, HTTPS-Colon slash slash-X.com slash hotstuff underscore labs contact hotstuff labs press at hotstufflabs.com. This story was published as a press release by Chainwire under Hackernoon business blogging program. Do your own research before making any financial decision. Thank you for listening to this Hackernoon story, read by artificial intelligence.

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