Onboard your users from anywhere. — Web3 deserves a better multichain UX. The emergence of L2s (and soon L3s!) has made cheap, fast dApp interactions available to everyone in the space. However, it’s also created a wildly confusing experience for users that have to navigate bridging, gas, and infrastructure across chains. To fix this, we’re introducing…

Understanding Connext — In the past couple of years, this space has seen some of its worst hacks due to the failures of bridging protocols. This, coupled with the lack of best practices for bridge architecture and the ever-growing number of externally verified bridge projects, has left most developers asking: Is secure crosschain…

The Next Wave of dApp Development Is Here — After almost a year of R&D, we are incredibly excited to announce that Connext’s Amarok upgrade is publicly live. This means that as of today: The Connext public Bridge UI and Explorer point to the new network. Users can now passively LP into the system in USDC and ETH. Anyone…

Bringing Connext to the Next Level — For the past few months, we’ve been quietly collecting data on the key problems that users, developers, and routers face while interacting with Connext and researching their solutions. Today, we’re excited to unveil our plans for Connext’s first network upgrade. The upgrade, which we’re calling Amarok, involves extensive changes to…

A New Paradigm for Crosschain Communication — A couple of months ago, we announced our close partnership with Nomad, a crosschain communication protocol that uses fraud proofs (similar to Optimistic Rollups) to relay data cross chains. In this post, we’ll deep dive into how optimistic bridges work, what their tradeoffs are, and why we love them. Recap: The Interoperability Trilemma The…

Introducing the Modular Interoperability Stack. — Important note: Nomad is not part of the Connext stack anymore. Please read this update and learn how Connext currently works. We are delighted to announce that Connext has formed a deep partnership with Nomad to accelerate the adoption of trustless, fully generalized crosschain communication. …

We are very excited to announce that Connext is forming an infrastructure partnership with Bware Labs! Bware Labs is establishing themselves as the go-to provider for API infrastructure and adjacent services for a large variety of blockchain networks. …

AKA Why Bridging Ethereum Domains is So Damn Difficult — Disclaimer: this research article was originally published in October 2021. See how the Connext team overcame the trilemma with our Amarok upgrade and research on Optimistic Bridges. A few days back, we shipped NXTP, our protocol for enabling fully trustless transfers and contract calls between Ethereum-compatible domains (domains = chains…

TL;DR nxtp is live on testnet! It is a simple, purpose-driven protocol to execute crosschain transfers and contract . Check out the docs and try it out here! The Origin Story We launched cross-evm transfers in January using a generalized state channel protocol. Since launching, we’ve grown at an astounding pace to hit $40m…