Heima Network

TLDR

Heima Network is a cross-chain trading infrastructure layer that lets users hold one account and transact across all major blockchains without manually managing bridges, gas tokens, or chain-specific wallets. Originally launched in 2019 as Litentry—a decentralized identity aggregation protocol on Polkadot—the project underwent a full strategic rebrand in 2025 to reflect its expanded focus on chain abstraction, agentic trading, and DEX infrastructure. The native HEI token (migrated 1:1 from LIT) governs the protocol and mediates cross-chain liquidity.

Origin: From Litentry to Heima

Litentry was founded in early 2019 by Hanwen Cheng, a former software engineer at Parity Technologies, the company behind Polkadot and Substrate. The project received grants from the Web3 Foundation and built decentralized identity infrastructure on Polkadot's parachain architecture. The team operates across Germany, China, and the United Kingdom.

By 2024, the project had completed a chain abstraction infrastructure layer and pivoted its product strategy toward cross-chain trading and autonomous agents. In 2025 the rebrand to Heima was completed, retiring the Litentry and LIT brand while preserving the underlying Polkadot parachain and conducting a 1:1 token migration to HEI.

Heima currently holds Leased Core ID 21 on Polkadot, with an active status running through October 2026. It won auction 66 through a self-funded bid of 180,088 DOT.

Core Mechanism: Chain Abstraction with Intent-Based Routing

Heima's architecture rests on four integrated components:

Layer 1 Coordination Network. A Substrate-based blockchain acts as the registry and execution coordination layer. It supports WASM and EVM smart contracts, a Nominated Proof-of-Stake (NPoS) consensus mechanism, native governance modules, and runtime upgradeability without hard forks. The team's stated target is 500ms block time.

Account Abstraction (Omni-Account). Users establish one unified identity across all supported chains using Web2-style authentication methods. The omni-account manages assets and interacts with decentralized applications across heterogeneous networks without requiring separate wallets per chain.

Chain Abstraction (Intent-Based Execution). Users express desired outcomes—such as swapping a token—and Heima's routing engine determines the optimal cross-chain execution path. A TEE-powered omni-executor coordinates proxy handlers and relayers across chains. Users never need to hold native gas tokens; intent fillers sponsor execution costs and are compensated through operational rewards. Supported payment tokens include USDT and USDC.

Agent Hub. A permissionless marketplace where autonomous bots offer services including trading, staking, and portfolio rebalancing. The hub is designed as a plug-and-play infrastructure layer for DEX builders of any size.

Key Products

Wildmeta (wildmeta.ai) is Heima's AI-powered trading platform, launched in Q1 2026 with agentic trading and custody capabilities.

AgentKeys is the first product on Heima where users never touch crypto—targeting mainstream users unfamiliar with crypto self-custody, launched in Q2 2026.

Heima AI Earn offers AI-driven Bitcoin quantitative strategies targeting approximately 60% annual yield with stated risk control parameters generally within 10% drawdown.

As of the time of research, Heima reports 52,000 users, 7.13 million total transactions, and $1.52 million in total value unlocked.

Solana Integration

Heima's chain abstraction layer is chain-agnostic by design and explicitly targets Solana among the chains it supports. The whitepaper features PumpX—a Solana-native DEX—as a primary case study: PumpX integrated Heima's chain abstraction layers to support multi-chain payments, unified cross-chain pricing, and automated routing without rewriting core DEX logic. This plug-and-play model is central to Heima's go-to-market strategy for Solana DEX builders.

HEI Token

HEI is the native utility token of the Heima ecosystem, migrated 1:1 from the legacy LIT token.

• Maximum supply: 100 million HEI
• Total supply: approximately 92.86 million HEI
• Circulating supply: approximately 67.62 million HEI (as of early 2025)
• Unlock schedule: 20-month unlock for ecosystem and foundation allocations

Allocation breakdown:

• Ecosystem: 22.1 million (20-month unlock)
• Foundation: 2.2 million (20-month unlock)
• Liquidity: 5 million (immediate)
• Team: 4.25 million (per original LIT release plan)

Token utility: HEI functions as a mediation asset in cross-chain liquidity pools, reducing slippage and bridging costs. HEI holders participate in governance through a multi-layered system modeled after Polkadot—token holders submit proposals, a Heima Council evaluates them, and HEI holders vote using adaptive quorum biasing. End users are not required to hold HEI directly; the intent filler network absorbs gas fees internally.

HEI is listed on KuCoin among other exchanges.

Security

Heima's security model combines three layers:

• Trusted Execution Environments (TEE): Sensitive execution logic runs inside TEEs with cryptographic proof emission, enabling verifiable off-chain computation.
• Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMPC): Optional multi-party key management for omni-account signers, eliminating single points of failure in key custody.
• On-chain auditability: All actors are registered on-chain with traceable identities; every intent lifecycle—from submission to resolution—is recorded immutably.

No external security audit reports are referenced in official documentation as of the time of writing.

Team

Heima was founded by Hanwen Cheng, who previously worked as a software engineer at Parity Technologies. The project received Web3 Foundation grants. Development operations span Germany, China, and the United Kingdom. No additional named team members appear in official sources.

Solana Fit

Heima is not a Solana-native protocol—its L1 runs as a Polkadot parachain built on Substrate. However, its chain abstraction infrastructure is explicitly built to integrate with Solana DEXs. PumpX's integration demonstrates live Solana connectivity: that Solana DEX uses Heima's layers to accept cross-chain payments and serve users from multiple ecosystems without requiring those users to hold SOL for gas or manage separate wallets. For Solana DeFi builders, Heima offers drop-in infrastructure to extend their reach across chains while preserving a non-custodial, user-friendly experience.