Ethiq is now live on mainnet!

Ethiq is an Ethereum Layer 2 built to act as the liquidity hub for the Haqq ecosystem, paired with a unified value layer intended to develop a shared economic engine that channels value back to the community.

Developed by Haqq Network, secured by Ethereum, built on Optimism’s OP Stack.
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Building on the OP Stack paves the way for Ethiq to become part of the Superchain in the future.

Ethiq is built to anchor liquidity and applications for the Haqq ecosystem. It pairs Ethereum security and OP Stack’s scalability and interoperability with a unified value layer that treats participation as a meaningful contribution to shared economic value.

Ethiq features:

• Ethereum security 
• Interoperability across OP Stack chains and the Superchain in the future .
• Fast block times for responsive user experiences
• EVM compatibility for easy deployment and tooling reuse
• Improved UX
• Ethereum ⇆ Ethiq bridge for smooth asset movement at launch, while cross-chain expansion, including Cosmos ecosystems, is planned.
  

Ethiq is growing in phases, starting with infrastructure, followed by integrations and application activity, and expanding through partnerships and adoption over time.

An Ecosystem Built to Work in Your Favor

From the beginning, blockchains promised open access and shared opportunity. In practice, many ecosystems grew complex, fragmented, or shaped by incentives that favored extraction over participation.

Ethiq exists to take a more grounded path. One focused on systems that reward contribution, scale responsibly, and remain coherent over time.

It is built on a simple belief: when people use a network, build on it, or support it over time, the system itself should work in their favor.

It also reflects a broader conviction:

• that applications should be open to everyone,
• that value should flow back to the people who create it,
• and that financial systems should reward contribution without incentivizing harm.

At its core, Ethiq carries the principle that has guided Haqq from the start, that innovation is strongest when ethics guide its direction.

This is Ethiq.

Unified Value Layer and HAQQ Token

At the core of Ethiq is the Unified Value Layer: an economic engine that connects infrastructure, applications, users, and value flows into a single, coherent system. As participation grows, the ecosystem strengthens. Productive activity supports the network, and the network is designed to recognize and reinforce that contribution.

The ecosystem token, ticker is HAQQ, plays a key role within this structure. It acts as the primary economic instrument through which participation, usage, and value flows are coordinated across the ecosystem. Rather than existing in isolation, the token is designed to be wired directly into how applications operate and how economic activity circulates.

As usage increases, value circulates back to the community that makes the network useful.

Simply put: active participation is rewarded.

Why launching on Ethereum

Ethereum remains the most credible and resilient foundation for decentralized finance and onchain applications. It combines deep liquidity, strong and sustained developer activity, and a global community that spans both institutional and retail participants. As of late 2025, Ethereum secures tens of billions of dollars in onchain value and continues to be the environment where real use cases form, mature, and endure.
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This launch reflects a clear-eyed view of where capital, meaningful onchain activity, and long-term builders are actually concentrating, and where blockchain infrastructure is best positioned to grow sustainably.

At the same time, Optimism’s Superchain is emerging as the coordination layer for Ethereum scaling, already powering a meaningful share of all onchain activity and bringing interoperability between Layer 2s closer to default behavior. 

By building Ethiq on OP Stack and progressing toward joining the Superchain, Haqq aligns its ecosystem with where:

• builders are already shipping,
• capital is already active,
• and cross-chain interoperability is becoming the norm rather than the exception.
  

This is building where reality already exists.

What this means for the Haqq Network community

Haqq Network remains active, while Ethiq becomes the primary growth surface for applications, integrations, and user experiences that benefit from the broader Ethereum environment.

The values that shaped the Haqq ecosystem remain intact, while the experience improves and the scope widens. Expanding development focus toward Ethiq is a way to give the mission more room to succeed and benefit the community over the long term.

As the space matures, it has become increasingly clear that ecosystems without real belief, productive usage, and committed communities struggle to endure. The broader crypto landscape is settling into its more lasting forms, shaped by real adoption, aligned incentives, rather than short-lived narratives.

This is the direction the Haqq ecosystem is choosing to lean into.

We will double down on what works, bring it to our community in the most effective way possible, and continue building decentralized systems that are genuinely useful. Systems that make participation meaningful, improve everyday experiences, and reward contribution without incentivizing harm.

This is the future we are working toward, and it is what our community deserves.

Ethiq Ecosystem

Several of the apps that we plan to bring to Ethiq have already been built and proven within the Haqq ecosystem, across DeFi, real-world assets, payments, and social tooling. 

• Firoza Finance 
• MM Chat 
• BarakaFi 
• Deenar Gold 

Bringing these applications to Ethiq makes them accessible to a much broader community, expanding their reach while keeping them grounded in real usage. As always, plans remain flexible and informed by the community as the ecosystem evolves.

An Experience Designed for People

This focus on experience is intentional. Ethiq aims to put blockchain-powered applications closer to how they should feel: open, transparent, aligned, usable, and easy to engage with. 

• Infrastructure should fade into the background.
• Value should be clear.
• Participation should feel meaningful. 

As people use apps, communicate, transact, or build, the system should support them, and return value to the ecosystem they help sustain.

A Stable Foundation for Builders

For builders, Ethiq offers a stable and predictable foundation to deploy, grow, and integrate within the Ethereum ecosystem.

• Access to a values-aligned global audience
• Low fees and fast settlement
• Interoperability across the OP Chains 
• A unified value layer that rewards participation
• Ethereum security + OP Stack performance
• EVM compatibility

Ethiq is designed for teams who want clarity, reliability, and a foundation they can commit to long-term.

Ethics is the new primitive

How value moves through a system matters as much as the technology powering it.

From the start, the Haqq ecosystem has been shaped by ethical finance principles that emphasize transparency, responsibility, productive activity, and avoidance of harm. Ethiq carries this forward at the infrastructure level, as a design direction for how the ecosystem evolves.

Ethiq is open. Developers are free to experiment, and applications may vary widely in purpose and design. The aim is to raise the baseline for how onchain systems operate and how value is created and shared.

This perspective reflects a founding principle and a broader understanding of sustainability in decentralized systems. As the space matures, it has become increasingly clear that systems that overlook alignment, responsibility, and real-world impact often struggle to earn lasting trust beyond narrow audiences and cycles. 

By treating ethics as a core design pillar, Ethiq seeks to move blockchain applications closer to what they promised to be: systems people can trust, use, and rely on over time, where participation is meaningful and contribution is structurally recognized.

Ethiq mainnet is now live. What follows is a steady expansion: integrations, applications, deep participation, and stronger connections across the ecosystem. The structure is in place. The direction is clear. The work continues.

As with any open ecosystem, timelines, applications, and integrations may evolve as the network, community, and broader market conditions develop.

• Add Ethiq to your wallet
• Bridge to Ethiq
• Build on Ethiq

Visit Ethiq website

Thank you to everyone who supported the work that led to this important milestone for Haqq Ecosystem. This launch is a foundation, and we’re grateful to be building what comes next together.

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