Web3 has a quiet usability problem, and most people in it have felt the symptoms: the bridge that stalls, the transaction rejected because you were on the wrong network, the gas fee you couldn't pay because you didn't hold that particular chain's token. Every new blockchain promised progress. Collectively, they produced fragmentation.
Particle Network's bet is that users never wanted to think about any of this. Founded in 2022 by Pengyu Wang and Tao Pan - two developers with backgrounds in mobile gaming - the company started by solving a narrower annoyance: rebuilding the same wallet backend for every project. That work became a wallet-abstraction service, and over time it grew into something larger and more ambitious: chain abstraction, an infrastructure layer designed to hide the underlying blockchain entirely.
The result is a modular Layer-1 and developer stack whose flagship product, Universal Accounts, gives each user a single unified address and balance that works across every supported chain. Applications and funds might sit on Ethereum, Solana, or a dozen other networks; the user just sees their balance. That is the whole pitch, and it is considerably harder to build than it is to describe.
