Tokenomics gets the spotlight. But interoperability decisions often decide whether a blockchain product succeeds or struggles. Most conversations start with the same topics: The whitepaper. The token supply. The emission schedule. The incentives. And while these are important, we’ve seen projects face bigger challenges because they didn’t think deeply enough about how their assets would move across ecosystems. A token can have a well-designed economic model and still face problems when liquidity becomes fragmented across multiple chains, users face friction, or protocols cannot interact with the asset as expected. The reality is that interoperability is not just a technical task to solve near launch. It influences the entire product architecture. It affects which chains can support the token, which applications can integrate with it, how users access the ecosystem, and what security considerations need to be addressed from the beginning. This is why cross-chain decisions are now part of early product discussions, not a final development checklist. Many teams only realise the impact of these choices after launch when changing infrastructure becomes more complex, expensive, and time-consuming. The strongest blockchain products are not built by adding features first and solving connectivity later. They are designed with the full ecosystem in mind from day one. A token is not just an asset. It is part of a larger network of users, applications, and infrastructure. For Web3 founders building their next product, what is one infrastructure decision you think teams underestimate during the early stages?