Bridge

The Shiba Inu-themed blockchain is testing a bridge to Ethereum. (Payless Images)
Shibarium Blockchain's Ethereum Bridge Goes Live for Testing as SHIB Tries to Shed Meme Coin Tag
The Shiba Inu-based layer 2 blockchain is expected to start operations next month.
The Shiba Inu-themed blockchain is testing a bridge to Ethereum. (Payless Images)

LayerZero CEO Bryan Pellegrino at Crypto Bahamas 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
Bridge Protocol LayerZero Passes 50M Cross-Chain Messages
The milestone highlights the demand for crypto users to transfer liquidity between chains and conduct cross-chain token swaps.
LayerZero CEO Bryan Pellegrino at Crypto Bahamas 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Wormhole Launches New Blockchain Connecting to Any Cosmos Appchain
The Wormhole Gateway is designed to make it easier for developers and users to on-ramp liquidity into the Cosmos ecosystem.
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Avail launches its data attestation bridge. (Alex Azabache/Unsplash)
Avail, Spun Out of Polygon, Launches Data Attestation Bridge to Ethereum
The new tech, on testnet, represents a step forward in Avail's plan to help secondary networks in the Ethereum ecosystem to speed up their processing – by giving them an alter...
Avail launches its data attestation bridge. (Alex Azabache/Unsplash)

Brendan Farmer, co-founder of Polygon. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)
Polygon 2.0 Roadmap Calls for ‘Unified Liquidity,’ Restaking, New Chains on Demand
Polygon, a staking solution for Ethereum, says its new architecture will include a shared bridge and a “coordination layer” that connects all of Polygon’s chains, with an emph...
Brendan Farmer, co-founder of Polygon. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Eli Ben-Sasson, Co-founder and President of Starkware. (Starkware)
‘Storage Proofs’ Touted as Alternative to Hack-Prone Bridges in Multichain World
Storage proofs, a feature that could minimize cross-chain exploits by allowing users to keep their assets on one chain and prove that it's there on a different chain, will go...
Eli Ben-Sasson, Co-founder and President of Starkware. (Starkware)

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Unveiling the Uniswap Foundation's Bridge Report: Winners and Losers
Wormhole and Axelar take top honors after a months-long assessment process aimed at addressing concerns with Uniswap’s previous bridge selection practices.
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New York City street view of multiple bridges and overpasses (Red Morley Hewitt/Unsplash)
Bridge Exploits Cost $2B in 2022, Here’s How They Could Have Been Averted
The bridges that are essential to our multi-chain cryptoverse are vulnerable to hacks. But an analysis of some of the biggest exploits of the past year reveals that applying m...
New York City street view of multiple bridges and overpasses (Red Morley Hewitt/Unsplash)

Bridge (Alex Azabache/Unsplash)
As Multichain Wobbles, Some Fantom-Based DeFi Projects Flee Bridged Tokens
The actions showcase how Multichain’s faltering infrastructure and AWOL CEO are sending shockwaves through Fantom, the blockchain most heavily dependent on Multichain’s bridge...
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Multichain can't get ahold of its bridges (Aleksandr Barsukov/Unsplash)
Crypto Bridging Protocol Multichain ‘Unable to Contact’ CEO Zhaojun
Multichain's team says it cannot maintain some cross-chain bridges without getting access permissions from its AWOL chief.
Multichain can't get ahold of its bridges (Aleksandr Barsukov/Unsplash)