What to Know: Uniswap’s legal victory over Bancor in a patent infringement case is a significant win for open-source innovation in DeFi. The ruling shifts the industry’s focus from intra-chain capital efficiency to the larger, unresolved issue of cross-chain liquidity fragmentation. LiquidChain is emerging as a Layer 3 protocol designed to unify native liquidity from the Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana ecosystems. Solving cross-chain interoperability is one of the next major growth frontiers for the entire decentralized economy