There are a number of sidechain products all working on their own take of decentralized contracts. Interesting to see them all come up with their own spin or take on what they consider decentralization.

Honestly just looked at the market and decided against trying to make something "unique" and instead focus on implementing functionality we already know the entire crypto ecosystem is willing to pay good money for as evident by the top 10 coin market cap functionality.

Nobody from Leo has ever approached me in regards to anything development wise but I'd be interested to hear from them to see what their take on doing "DeFi" is.. Mine is simple give us the same tools that the networks that traditionally support "DeFi" and charge our native token for it.

Note that "DeFi" here is referring to those terrible HYIP and PONZI solidty smart contracts they have on Ethereum and BnB or whatever the cool kids crypto on these days. :P

Even if we aren't on the same chain the goal is to be able to build in cross chain bridges quite easily and perhaps even natively support some other side chain tokens off the hop. We'll see here shortly once my dev partner and I get out testnet started here locally. :)