Unlike in externally and locally verified bridges, in natively verified bridges (also known as light...client-based bridges), the operators of the bridge are the validators of the underlying chains....ZK-Bridges vs....Conclusion So, are ZK-bridges really the end-all-be-all for bridge design?...rely on bridges.

Today, we examine the amount of stETH currently on bridges and our Research team dives into DYAD, a new...📊 stETH on Ethereum Bridges Skyrockets Lido Finance deployed on Aribtrum and Optimism on Oct. 7...Since then, the amount of stETH held in Ethereum bridges has surged by over 700%....A driving force behind the increased bridge and staking activity is LDO rewards.

While bridge protocols can integrate CCTP, users can bridge for free directly through Circle....Synthetix uses CCIP to bridge sUSD cross-chain....Each THORNode runs THORChain’s own bridge design known as Bifröst....While 3rd party bridges have been slow, they have no choice to integrate.

A sharp increase over the weekend brings the total value locked on the Arbitrum Bridge to $2.4b....Arbitrum’s bridge contract had a mere $22M locked in it on Sep. 1, which meant the bridge represented...just 0.047% of total TVL in Ethereum bridges....Correction: The above chart excluded Polygon’s ETH and Plasma bridges, as well as Optimism’s ETH bridge...

Most interop approaches range from Rollups (native crosschain validation), MPC bridges like Ren to 1:...At the end of the day many facets of interoperability boil down to the trustlessness of the bridges used...More importantly, arbitrageurs only rely on the native Rollup bridge and Hop Bridge to rebalance liquidity...

Bridge: You can use Synapse Protocol to bridge assets over to Metis Andromeda....implementation of Anchor on @avalancheavax — Anchor Protocol (@anchor_protocol) March 23, 2022 Avax Bridge...

Bridging From Mainnet to Ronin and Avalanche As scaling solutions come, we see high bridging activity...Ronin recently released Katana, a DEX in Ronin, that reduces the need for scholars/managers to bridge...Alongside this, Binance’s Ronin integration allowed for a much cheaper bridging process.

Certus One has released Wormhole, a bidirectional bridge ERC-20 and SPL Token bridge between Ethereum...More specifically, Wormhole is a centralized PoA bridge and is very different from those focused on actual...

[Excerpt from a Delphi Pro Report] Not all bridges are built equal, and the Rainbow Bridge best exemplifies...Built by the same team who built Near and Aurora, the Rainbow Bridge is a fully trustless bridge that...allows users to bridge assets from Ethereum to Near and Aurora.

& BitVM based bridge....BitVM bridge channel and function as an oracle network for the OP-DLC bridge channel....BitVM Bridge Channel: User locks its BTC into a deposit address for BitVM bridge For both options,...bridge contract....Consequently, bridges to Bitcoin rely on multisigs and federation control, introducing trust.

This piece aims to bridge this gap by establishing a new framework for understanding defensibility in...Third-Party Bridges Out of each of the verticals we have explored thus far, the third-party bridging...Given most users don’t have a relationship with a bridge, it has proven inherently difficult for bridges...

🚨 In Case You Missed It Near Protocol’s Rainbow Bridge repels an attack in 31 seconds, while attacker...🚨 In Case You Missed It Near Protocol’s Rainbow Bridge repels an attack in 31 seconds, while attacker...

🚨 In Case You Missed It Nomad Bridge was exploited, with over $190M of liquidity drained by hundreds...🚨 In Case You Missed It Nomad Bridge was exploited, with over $190M of liquidity drained by hundreds...

(01:22) Maple Finance woes (12:43) On-chain update (23:33) DAO treasuries ranked (35:35) Analyzing bridge...Finance's troubles, what on-chain metrics say about the markets, DAO treasury ranks, how insightful bridge...

...for the $15.75B in L2 bridges....One way to categorize bridge architectures is token bridge vs liquidity network. ...are considered token bridges....ETH bridged to Optimism via the canonical Optimism bridge)....third-party token bridges.

Access to more trading pairs without having to manually bridge to all relevant chains....superior to the experience of manually bridging funds around to achieve a desired end-state....Protocols need to tie up with bridges to become truly cross-chain in this manner....Bridge – Alex provides users with a limited bridge to and from Stacks.

While both USDe and sUSDe can be bridged to Mantle, only USDe currently integrates with DeFi dApps on...Blast: In the case of Blast, ETH is initially deposited onto the Blast bridge and subsequently staked...Manta: When depositing ETH through the Manta bridge, users have the option to receive STONE, the liquid...

Swappers don’t take any bridge risk and fillers do so only when using bridges to rebalance....Impact of CCTP on the Bridge Ecosystem At EthCC, Circle presented “Impact of CCTP on the Bridge Ecosystem...Are Existing Bridges NGMI?...Bridge, Avalanche Bridge, etc.

Token bridges are a subset of messaging bridges....There are very few bridges that are pure token bridges....of Authority bridges Proof of Stake bridges Optimistic Bridges zk-light client bridges Light Client...Bridges L1 ↔ L2 Native Bridges With bridges, security is a spectrum, or trust is a spectrum.

The key infrastructure piece of the DeFi Rush program was inarguably the new AB Bridge between Ethereum...While the new AB bridge operates under a PoA model just like the old bridge, the user experience is radically...The correlation is even more evident in the bridge activity....Note that the AB bridge doesn’t hold AVAX.