Introduction

Orderly was built on the idea of being everywhere, meeting traders and builders on the chains they prefer. While our unified orderbook works across multiple networks, the data tells a very clear story - almost all of our volume, activity, and TVL comes from just a few key chains.

Supporting the rest takes a significant amount of time, money, and security resources for very little payoff.

This proposal suggests phasing out chains that haven't caught on. By cutting the noise, we can reduce risks and make the protocol much more efficient. As a community, you are invited to vote on which of these underperforming chains (if any) we should save.

The Proposal

We’ve identified five chains that, over the last 90 days, have consistently shown:

• No active builders deploying or operating on them.
• Almost zero trading volume compared to our overall numbers.
• Very low TVL, showing a lack of user adoption.

By default, all five of these chains will be removed. However, we are putting this to the community, stakers can vote to save any chain they want to keep.

If a chain does not get enough votes to be saved, we will phase it out over 15 days:

• Day 0 (Public Notice): We announce the affected chains. New deposits on these chains are turned off immediately.

• Days 7–15 (Liquidity Move): Vault liquidity is moved over to the chains we are keeping.

• Day 15+ (Full Deprecation): The chain is officially removed from our supported networks.

Note on User Funds: Users will always have full access to their funds. Even after a chain is removed, users can withdraw their money to any active chain (for example, a user on Abstract can simply withdraw to Arbitrum, Base, or Solana).

(Reactivation in the future is always possible if a new builder commits to deploying with enough projected volume).

Rationale

This proposal boils down to two main goals:

1. Better Security & Less Busywork: Every chain we support means more smart contracts to monitor, bridges to integrate, and security reviews to conduct. Every extra chain is a new potential attack surface. Dropping unused chains lets our engineering and security teams focus entirely on the networks people actually use.

2. Smarter Money Management: Moving liquidity between chains costs gas, bridge fees, and time. Right now, we are wasting resources rebalancing liquidity for chains that produce almost zero volume. Consolidating fixes this.

What Changes

What Stays the Same

• Funds: 100% safe and accessible. No deposits are locked. You can always withdraw from a deprecated chain to an active one via the standard withdrawal flow.

• Active Chains: Builders, traders, and operations on the chains we keep will not notice a thing.

• Our Core Model: Orderly’s unified liquidity model stays exactly the same, it’s just getting more focused.

Voting Mechanism

Think of this as voting for what to save, not what to cut.

Every chain on the chopping block gets its own vote. The default outcome for all of them is removal.

If you want to keep a chain, vote for it.

If you don't vote for a chain (or abstain), that counts as letting it go.

Your voting power applies to each chain individually. Using your voting power to save one chain does not dilute your vote for the others.

This setup ensures that chains are only kept around if there is active community support, rather than just staying alive out of inertia.

Voting Parameters

• Quorum: 10% of total voting power
• Default Outcome: Deprecation (Removal)
• Voting Period: 7 days
• Retention Threshold (per chain): Quorum (10% of the total voting power)
• Eligibility: Only ORDER staked before this proposal was submitted counts toward your voting power.

The Takeaway

Orderly's strength comes from unified, deep liquidity, not from being on every single chain just for the sake of it. Consolidating around the networks with real builders, volume, and users makes the protocol leaner, safer, and more capital-efficient.

Appendix - Chains Proposed for Deprecation

The following chains hit all three criteria for removal (no builders, negligible volume, low TVL) over the last 90 days:

Each of these chains will follow the 15-day phase-out process if they are not saved by the community vote. User funds remain fully accessible throughout.