Nov. 27 at 3:46 PM
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There is a reason Alphabet keeps coming up whenever people talk about real usage. At the infra layer, it has become the default fabric for a ton of AI workloads, cloud-native apps, and data pipelines. As a core position, that makes sense: you’re effectively owning a big chunk of the hardware, tooling, and platform side of the current internet and the AI buildout, with relatively predictable economics and massive developer mindshare.
Keeta lives in a very different part of the stack. Think of it less like an app platform and more like a low-latency, cross-network settlement bus: a high-speed, compliance-aware layer designed so assets and payments can move between chains and traditional institutions without having to rebuild trust and identity at every hop. The design bakes in optional KYC and AML hooks at the protocol level, so banks, fintechs, and payment processors can plug into on-chain rails without duct-taping compliance on afterward. That’s a very different design target than most general-purpose chains, which were built first for open execution and only later tried to retrofit institutional requirements.
From a routing perspective, Keeta’s interesting because it’s explicitly aiming to be neutral backbone infrastructure under multiple ecosystems, not the place where every retail user lives. The anchor and bridge model is about pulling stablecoins or wrapped Bitcoin onto very fast rails for netting and settlement, then releasing them back to Ethereum, Solana, or wherever the liquidity and applications live. The public benchmarks showing it process millions of transactions per second with sub-second finality matter here: if you’re going to be the cross-chain switching layer for FX, card networks, and bank-to-wallet flows, you need that kind of headroom plus deterministic finality.
When you stack that role against the current L1 landscape, the gap is mostly in valuation rather than narrative. The big chains have real communities and battle-tested infra, and they’re not going away; they’ve proven the model and host the bulk of today’s DeFi and consumer flows. Keeta is going after a narrower, more “boring” job: be the high-throughput, compliance-first settlement network that other chains and institutions quietly route through. For that ambition, it still looks early and mispriced relative to the potential addressable volume in banks, fintechs, FX, and payments. For someone who already has large, mature exposure via Alphabet to AI and cloud, carving out a small, satellite-style allocation to Keeta is essentially a bet that the next decade’s financial plumbing needs a dedicated, institution-ready backbone the same way the internet needed serious cloud infrastructure.
