Bridges
Bridges are the overall infrastructure and architecture that enables interoperability between two or more chains. i.e. bridges establish the facilities for interoperability. Bridges establish the network connections, protocols, mechanisms like hash-locking, data formats etc. to facilitate crosschainchain communication.
Bridges can provide a variety of services and infrastructure like data feeds, liquidity, etc. while connecting chains.
Messaging bridges
Liquidity bridges
Custodial bridges
Token wrappers
Interoperability Hubs
How does the bridge work?
Trustless Bridge
Locally verified, natively verified
Trusted Bridge
What does the bridge connect?
L1 - L1 Bridges (native)
L1/L2 - L2 Bridges (third-party)
Across
How does the bridge move assets?
Lock and Mint
Polygon POS Bridge, Avalanche Bridge
Burn and Mint
Circle CCTP
Optimistic Swaps
What are the bridge functionalities?
Wrapped Asset Bridges
wBTC, wMonero
Liquidity Network
HOP, Connext, Catalyst
Native Bridges
Messaging Bridges
Celer, LayerZero, Axelar
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