Bridges aren't just for whales 🐋 A user recently sent about $1 through Allbridge: 1 SUI from Sui, 1.06 USDC received on Base. About a minute. $1 or $400K, the route is the same for everyone 🤝

Bridges, payment providers and CEXs should count attestations instead of using a fixed delay. Under normal network conditions, Ethereum get to to quasi-finality within 1 block. We've updated the @gnosischain bridge - now bridging takes only seconds!

Bridges got commoditized. @zord4n, CEO of @jumperapp, says order books are on the same path: "Order books are very akin to bridges three, four years ago." "There are going to be a lot more of them, very specialized, every asset issuer with its own. So why would a user be cemented into one? There are always differences in fees, slippage, funding rates across venues." "What's missing is the UX layer that combines them, the same model as bridge aggregation. You inherit the liquidity of any order book, but compete on UX: a unified margin account across all of them, with one-click strategies." "The bet: in the next two years, more specialized order books pop up, and there'll need to be an aggregation layer that unifies them."

Bridges are still the scariest part of crypto. Not because the idea is bad. Because the infrastructure is still fragmented. Liquidity sits on different chains, standards are uneven, and one wrong route can turn a simple transfer into a real mistake. If you want to move USDC into the XDC ecosystem, the better approach is boring: Use established bridge infrastructure, verify the exact destination chain, confirm the asset route, and test with a small amount first. Read more here: