Buy & Swap Gravity (G)

A chain built by Galxe

Gravity's homepage leads with speed: an ultra-fast parallel EVM Layer 1, delivering 1 gigagas per second throughput and sub-second finality to over 25 million users. Right underneath comes the origin story in three words: built by Galxe.

That lineage matters. Gravity calls itself the magnet chain for Web3 developers and says builders can tap into more than 25 million users in the Gravity ecosystem. Instead of a new chain waiting for an audience, it starts with one.

The stated goal is mass adoption. The site describes Gravity as a high-performance Layer 1 engineered for exactly that.^{[1], [2], [3]}

What makes it fast

Gravity explains its performance in two parts. Consensus — how nodes agree on the order of transactions — runs on a pipelined AptosBFT engine, which overlaps stages of the process instead of doing them one after another.

Execution runs on Grevm, short for Gravity EVM, a parallel runtime that processes independent transactions at the same time. Because it is EVM-compatible, apps and tools written for Ethereum can work on Gravity without rewriting.

Security comes from proof of stake reinforced by restaking technology, which the site lists as restaking-powered PoS security with built-in resilience.^{[4], [5]}

From rollup to Layer 1

Gravity published its rollout in two stages. In Q3 2024 it launched Gravity Alpha Mainnet, an Ethereum rollup powered by the Arbitrum Nitro stack — a way to get users and apps live quickly.

The second stage, scheduled for Q4 2025 on the roadmap, is Gravity Mainnet: a restaking-powered proof-of-stake Layer 1 that also integrates Reth as its EVM execution engine.

Getting started is framed in three steps on the homepage: bridge tokens using the native bridge or supported bridges, add the Gravity network to your wallet, then explore the growing ecosystem of apps.^{[6], [7], [8]}

What builders can do, and where G fits

Gravity highlights two features for developers. Balance abstraction with yield uses its native omnichain intent protocol so apps can offer users a yield-enabled unified balance across chains. Omnichain loyalty points use the chain's low costs to put loyalty points fully on-chain for more transparency.

To grow that ecosystem, Gravity has announced a $50 million ecosystem VC alliance aimed at next-generation projects, and the site links to an independent Messari report on the network.

G is the Gravity token. The documentation is more specific than the homepage: G is the native coin used for transaction fees, staking and governance on Gravity. It replaced GAL as the shared token for Gravity and the wider Galxe ecosystem after the Galxe DAO approved the migration.

That consolidation gives one asset several jobs. A user needs G to pay for activity on the chain, validators use it as collateral, and holders can take part in governance. Gravity also documents a canonical bridge that locks ERC-20 G on Ethereum and issues native G one-for-one on Gravity, which is why checking the destination network matters before a transfer.^{[9], [10], [11], [12], [13]}

Supply and staking details

The official pages read for this profile do not state G's total supply, validator reward rate or the DAO's detailed voting rules. The live counters for wallets, value locked and transactions did not render in the page text read for this profile. Those figures are UNKNOWN from the sources used here.^[11]