Dear Hydration community,

I'm Toni, co-founder of the LAOS Network, a parachain on the Polkadot mainnet since July 3rd, 2024. We would like to propose the inclusion of our native LAOS token on Hydration. This post aims to introduce the LAOS protocol, its goals, and its token to the Hydration community, and to formally propose the approval to open an HRMP channel between our networks and register the LAOS token in Hydration's asset registry.

**About LAOS**

LAOS is the first Layer 1 protocol to connect Polkadot with Ethereum, Polygon, their L2s, and any other EVM-compatible chain—without the need for bridges. LAOS' bridgeless pattern enables gas fees for specific transactions to be paid within the LAOS consensus system, while the resulting assets remain on the target blockchain. This ensures they are accessible where liquidity exists. Games and Real World Assets applications can scale without requiring users to migrate from their main ecosystems, use centralized bridges, or wrap currencies. LAOS has been live on the Polkadot Mainnet since July 3rd, 2024.

The LAOS Token has been classified as a Utility Token by Switzerland’s financial regulator, FINMA. As with many parachains, it is used for governance, gas fees, and staking.

LAOS operates in a fully decentralized manner, as outlined in its Tokenomics. Governance has been implemented using Polkadot's Gov 1.0 since Q4 2024, with Subsquare integration recently completed in January 2025. The token is also available via AssetHub.

Since November 19th, 2024, the LAOS token has been live on two centralized exchanges, MEXC and Bit2Me, with a stable price range of $0.05–$0.07 per token, corresponding to a market cap of approximately $50–$70 million.

**Next Steps**

In order to increase liquidity for the LAOS token, we would like to open an HRMP channel between our networks and register the LAOS token in Hydration's asset registry. Initially we plan to provide liquidity as an isolated DOT/LAOS pair, and likely move to using the Omnipool as soon as the conditions are met, especially regarding the minimum of 8 months for price discovery requirement (the token has been listed since Nov 19th).

**Links**

* Website: https://laosnetwork.io/
* Socials: https://laosnetwork.io/community
* Medium: https://medium.com/laosnetwork
* LAOS via Polkadot.js: https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Flaos-rpc.dwellir.com#/explorer
* Statescan Explorer: https://laos.statescan.io/
* EVM Explorer: https://explorer.laosnetwork.io/
* Subsquare for Gov 1.0: https://laos.subsquare.io/
* Tokenomics: https://laos.gitbook.io/laos-whitepaper/tokenomics/token-distribution
* Developer documentation: https://docs.laosnetwork.io/landing
* Technical Whitepaper: https://github.com/freeverseio/laos-whitepaper/blob/main/laos.pdf
* LAOS on MEXC: https://www.mexc.com/exchange/LAOS_USDT
* LAOS on Bit2me: https://pro.bit2me.com/exchange/LAOS-USDT
* LAOS on AssetHub: https://kheopswap.xyz/#/polkadot/pools/35


#225 LAOS Network on Hydration