Canopy Unveils ‘Progressive Autonomy’: A Revolutionary Framework for Simple Blockchain Launching

Florida, USA, December 15, 2025 – Canopy, a company dedicated to building a next-generation Layer 1 (L1) framework that simplifies blockchain development akin to Layer 2 (L2), has introduced Progressive Autonomy. This revolutionary deployment model is designed to make launching a blockchain significantly easier while ensuring developers maintain long-term control and economic benefits. The framework allows teams to initiate their projects as sub-chains secured by Canopy’s validator network, customize their chains over time, and eventually transition to autonomous L1s without the need to overhaul core infrastructure or secure a separate, costly security budget.

Key Takeaways

Progressive Autonomy simplifies blockchain launch while preserving ownership.
Developers can start as sub-chains and evolve to independent L1s without major rework.
Shared security from professional validators offers protection from day one.
Transitioning to sovereign status retains a project’s history and community, enhancing continuity.
Canopy's approach aims to facilitate infrastructure concerns, allowing developers to focus on application development.

As the limitations of traditional L1 development and L2 rollups become more apparent, teams face growing challenges. Although rollups facilitate easy deployment, they often lead to issues such as centralized governance tokens, fragmentation, and a lack of value retention within ecosystems. Conversely, sovereign L1s possess the architecture necessary for capturing long-term economics; however, the typical construction process can span over a year and demands a considerable upfront investment and custom consensus development. This cumbersome and costly approach compels builders to make difficult early decisions—either sacrifice ownership for ease or face overwhelming costs in pursuit of sovereignty.

Canopy’s CEO, Adam Liposky, stated, “Teams were forced into a false choice between simplicity and sovereignty, so we built Canopy to remove that trade-off. Sovereignty should mean developers control their network economics and capture value on their own rails. Progressive Autonomy lets teams launch fast, retain long-term ownership of their chain, and build toward a future of hundreds of specialized sovereign sub-chains owned by the communities behind them.”

The Progressive Autonomy framework eliminates these trade-offs, ensuring that all chains launched on Canopy benefit from shared security through a growing network of professional validators, with over 20 top-tier operators already participating in the platform's Betanet. This model provides new chains protection from the outset, without depending on external security markets or token inflation.

By sharing validators, early-stage projects no longer need to establish and incentivize their own validator sets, which streamlines the launching process and reduces associated operational complexities. Furthermore, Canopy’s unique VM-less architecture allows developers to code in any programming language and customize their execution environments based on their scaling applications, without needing to alter consensus mechanisms or the underlying network.

Canopy allows teams to evolve naturally from incubation to independent blockchain ownership.

Once a project is ready for growth, it can separate from Canopy’s shared security model and become a fully sovereign L1, taking its entire history, state, community, and economic framework with it. This transition pathway ensures continuity for users and developers, empowering teams with total control over governance, performance, and value capture. Canopy regards this as a structural transformation for the blockchain industry. Instead of having to choose between L1 and L2 solutions at the outset, teams can now smoothly progress from initial development to full autonomy as their requirements evolve.

Andrew Nguyen, Co-Founder and CTO of Canopy, remarked: “Progressive Autonomy allows developers to focus entirely on building useful, high-performing applications instead of wrestling with infrastructure. Our goal was to take the security and operational burdens away from traditional L1 creation and make them completely invisible. When sovereignty becomes accessible, the entire ecosystem will expand and benefit mutually.”

Canopy's Betanet is already operational, backed by leading validators such as PierTwo, Stakely, Rhino, Lavender Five, Nodes.Guru, Kingnode, Easy2Stake, and more, indicating early traction for this shared security model. The full mainnet launch is expected in 2026, following over 18 months of development across the core protocol and its supporting infrastructure.

Canopy’s “Progressive Autonomy” model lets teams spin up sub-chains under shared validator security, then transition to full sovereign L1s without rebuilding infrastructure or raising a separate security budget.

About Canopy Network

Canopy is dedicated to making the launch of a sovereign blockchain as simple as creating an app. Teams can deploy quickly, retain control of their network economy, and achieve cross-chain interoperability without the need for bridges or wrapped assets. With its NestBFT protocol and layerless mesh security, Canopy offers shared protection and built-in atomic swaps for every chain on its network. Developers benefit from predictable costs, rapid deployment templates, and immediate interoperability.

Website | Twitter/X | Discord | Github