At first, @reya_xyz was just “a fast perp DEX” in my head. Something you use, trade on, and move on from

As I looked a bit deeper, that framing started to change. What’s live today on Arbitrum Orbit, and the vision of evolving into an Ethereum-aligned rollup, point to something more structural than a standalone product

In the short term, I’m there as a trader, benefiting from speed, liquidity, and risk controls. But over the longer horizon, what catches my attention is the idea of a volume driven network layer built specifically for capital markets

From that point on, I stopped seeing Reya as an application
I started seeing it as a foundation others could eventually build on

Products compete
Infrastructure compounds

That’s the lens I now look at Reya through