ChocoSwap
VNLA · CROSS-CHAIN
MAINNET
ChocoSwap is an audited, community-governed DEX routing swaps and bridges across 30+ networks. Born on Ontology in 2020 — fully rebuilt as an omnichain protocol in 2026.
After the 2021 Ontology-HECO winter, the protocol was resurrected by a new core team. Contracts re-audited, liquidity rebuilt, routing rewritten on the LI.FI / Socket meta-layer.
One interface. Best-price routing across 15+ liquidity sources and 30+ chains. Non-custodial. MEV-protected.
We aggregate quotes from Uniswap, 1inch, CoWSwap, Balancer, Curve, Kyber, Odos, Matcha, and native liquidity on HECO and Ontology. Best rate guaranteed — or the difference goes to you.
30+ EVM chains + Solana via LI.FI · Across · Stargate · Hop. Gas-abstracted.
VNLA-WETH, VNLA-USDC, CHOCO-USDT. Halving emissions every 2 weeks.
VNLA holders vote on listings, fee splits, treasury allocation, and launchpad graduation. No founder shares, no VC allocations — 100% fair-launch, as promised in the 2020 whitepaper.
Original Chocoswap Final Audit Report (09.03.2021) + 2026 re-audit of all v2 routing & staking contracts. Full report on GitHub.
CHOCO powers utility — fees, buybacks, burns. VNLA is the governance asset of the DAO. Both capped. Both deflationary.
The full timeline — including the 2021–2025 dormancy period. No gaslighting.
Twitter launch in Singapore. Brand "Ontoswap" by ex-Ontology PR lead Shawn You. Uniswap-fork design under Ontology's wing.
On Ontology's suggestion, protocol renamed. Dual-token model: CHOCO (utility) + VNLA (DAO).
Thread #5307920. ChocoswapWP.pdf on GitHub. Presale via LID Protocol.
Chocoswap Final Audit Report, 5.36 MB. All contracts cleared. Report on QuillHash GitHub.
dex.chocoswap.finance live. Partnerships: ONTO, HyperPay (23k+ AMA), Defibox. 780K VNLA burned.
Last Medium post October 12. China's crypto ban impacts the Asia-based team; the legacy site goes offline. HECO contracts remain active on-chain.
VNLA stays liquid on HECO. Organic holders continue trading on secondary markets. No official team activity.
CoinMarketCap and CoinPaprika keep the listing alive. Community members run their own Telegram groups. Original contributors scatter.
Legacy contributors reconnect. Internal discussions about a v2 relaunch. Domain chocoswap.co secured.
Rango + LI.FI routing integrations prototyped. Migration contract logic drafted. New core team forms. Quiet re-audit scoping begins with QuillAudits.
Site lives again at chocoswap.co. Rango-powered omnichain bridge live. Migration contracts for legacy VNLA holders deployed. Re-audit in progress. 1.5M VNLA airdrop open.
Omnichain bridge GA. Launchpad opens for first 3 partner projects. Governance forum live.
Non-custodial perps and options markets activate on L2 — on the 2020 roadmap, finally shipping.
Core team multisig dissolves. All parameters controlled by VNLA holders via on-chain voting.
ChocoSwap was born in 2020 as one of the earliest cross-chain swap protocols — bridging Ontology ↔ Ethereum when most projects were single-chain. A short-lived golden era.
"Cross-chain trading shouldn't need seven apps and three bridges."
— that was the founding thesis in Q3 2020, when QS Quicksilver and Abu Bunjamin assembled a team of Ontology developers to build an AMM that could route swaps between isolated L1s.
The protocol launched as Ontoswap in August 2020, rebranded to ChocoSwap in November with the release of $VNLA, and migrated to Huobi ECO Chain (HECO) in early 2021 for lower fees and Ethereum compatibility.
Audited by QuillAudits in March 2021. Listed on Hoo.com, CoinMarketCap and CoinPaprika. Reached $12.4M TVL at peak.
Then October 12, 2021 — dormancy. Four years later, here we are, rebuilding it right.
Pseudonymous-first. Verifiable on-chain. Legacy team + 2026 core.
16 years in futures & options markets across NSE, Nasdaq, FTSE. Director at QS MarketingCorp. Legacy ChocoSwap co-founder since 2020.
LinkedIn →
Former CEO of PT Trijaya Pratama Futures (Indonesia, 1000+ staff). Founder of PT Cakrawala Citramega Multifinance, OJK-regulated since 2003.
Legacy GitHub contributor (flyfiredoom, choco0202). Author of VNLADistribution.sol, PoolVNLA.sol. Returning in 2026 as lead Solidity engineer.
GitHub →Every contract is publicly auditable on HECO Explorer. Original 2021 QuillAudits report and 2026 re-audit available as PDFs on GitHub — nothing to hide.
Full audit of Choco.sol, ChocoV2.sol, VNLA.sol, VNLADistribution, PoolVNLA. Published on QuillHash repo.
New router, bridge adapters, staking contracts, airdrop distributor. In progress with two independent firms.
Contracts, frontend, docs — all open. 4 legacy contributors, active v2 monorepo since Jan 2026.
Last Medium post Oct 12, 2021. China's crypto ban impacted the Asia-based team; the legacy site was suspended by its host. Contracts stayed on-chain on HECO. In early 2026, a group of legacy contributors reassembled under the new chocoswap.co domain to rebuild the protocol.
Same on-chain VNLA: 0xe09a504071c0c1483e86727fb95f550a0559d9d2 on HECO. Legacy holders bridge to new chains via a one-way migration contract — no unit change. Max supply stays 21,000,000.
Routing built on LI.FI, Socket, Across, Stargate, Hop, Connext. Each request queries all providers and picks the lowest-total-cost route. Non-custodial — your keys, your tokens.
Today: 5-of-9 multisig of contributors. Post-Q4 2026: VNLA holders directly via on-chain governance. Roadmap front-loads technical delivery before full decentralization — protocol is battle-tested before the multisig dissolves.
Fair question. Everything is verifiable: contracts on HECO Explorer, 2021 audit on QuillHash GitHub, 2026 re-audit will be public on publication. Don't trust — verify. Never allocate more than you can afford to lose to any DeFi protocol, especially one reviving from dormancy.
Whether you're here for the bridge, the airdrop, or just to check that the ghost finally got a body — welcome back.
