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Moving To A New Blog

deBridge — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 12:16:46 GMT

Our community is our top priority and we want to provide a better way for everyone to stay updated on the latest deBridge development and progress. This is why we’re changing our current blog location. We are extremely appreciative of the support for all of our writings so far, and we will continue to expand our content production to bring you more detailed and exciting articles.

To provide our community with a better user experience, it is better to move content production to our website. This will allow for improved content feedback and curation, which will enhance our overall production and allow us to reach those who are unaware of the secure interoperability layer for Web3 that we’re building.

To continue receiving new posts and updates in your inbox, all Medium subscribers need to subscribe to our new blog. To do this, all you’ll need to do is to visit https://debridge.finance/blog/, navigate to the top right hand corner, click subscribe and enter your email. After that, to verify your email. That’s it! We look forward to communicating our upcoming development with everyone.

With deBridge, we’re building the secure interoperability layer for Web3 where anyone can start to communicate between blockchain ecosystems and transfer assets and messages in a fast, seamless and secure way. We’re excited to have you with us on the journey.

About deBridge

deBridge is a generic messaging and cross-chain interoperability protocol that enables anyone to build powerful cross-chain applications where value and messages flow seamlessly. Since launching its cross-chain bridge, deSwap, deBridge has built a suite of solutions enabling Web3 projects to easily build powerful cross-chain applications across DeFi, NFTs, Metaverses, GameFi, and more.

With deBridge, anyone can experience secure, seamless cross-chain interoperability today. For more information, please visit: https://debridge.finance.

deBridge now powering cross-chain swaps in Liquality

deBridge — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 16:33:41 GMT

For easy one-click swaps between any liquid assets

We are thrilled to be building towards seamless any-chain access with Liquality, a multi-chain wallet offering quick and easy access to cross-chain swaps, NFT collections, and more! Liquality users can now enjoy secure cross-chain swaps between any liquid assets in one transaction, powered by deBridge.

Behind the scenes, deSwap API abstracts away all transaction steps from the source chain to the destination chain, making for a completely intuitive user experience. Any application — including web applications, wallets, and dApps — can offer trustless cross-chain swaps with deSwap API by integrating a few lines of code.

By working with forward-thinking teams like Liquality, we can accelerate our goal to bring truly secure, scalable cross-chain connectivity to Web3. Liquality were early supporters of our vision of zero-TVL cross-chain value transfer, and thanks to this, their users will be among the first to experience zero slippage transfers via deSwap Liquidity Network (DLN).

Ready to scale your app/protocol across chains? We’re here to help! Reach out to us on any of our social channels and we’ll provide support from idea to production (and beyond).

About Liquality

Liquality is an open source self-custodial wallet that covers many chains. Hold and swap your coins and NFTs across multiple chains in one easy-to-use wallet, with a single seed phrase. Users can use Liquality wallet to explore Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other chains like Polygon, Optimism, Avalanche, BNB, Arbitrum, and Rootstock in a secure, one-stop wallet.

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About deBridge

deBridge is on a mission to securely unite every blockchain and bring seamless interoperability to Web3. Since launching its cross-chain DEX, deSwap, deBridge has built a suite of solutions enabling Web3 teams to build powerful cross-chain applications across DeFi, NFTs, Metaverses, GameFi, and more. For more information, please visit: https://debridge.finance.

deBridge now powering cross-chain swaps in Liquality was originally published in deBridge on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

deBridge Update — October 2022

deBridge — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 11:53:57 GMT

deBridge Update — October 2022

Welcome back to the monthly deBridge update. These updates aim to inform our community about what’s new from deBridge, and what we’re building for the future. This includes information on developments, news, partnerships, and more. Here’s the full rundown of the latest development:

Table of Content

Announcements
Events
Get involved
Some highlights
In case you missed it

ANNOUNCEMENTS

⭐️deSwap Liquidity Network (DLN), a new paradigm for limitless, zero slippage cross-chain value transfers with 0 TVL
🤝Frontier has integrated deSwap API to enable seamless cross-chain swaps between any assets for their wallet
🤝Thunder Lands has integrated dePort to open up access to Thunder token (TNDR) and their dark fantasy MMO game across new blockchain ecosystems
🎁Rubic’s Birthday Giveaway has ended with deBridge being the most popular cross-chain provider of the campaign!

A short overview about DLN:

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Here’s why we’re so excited about DLN and how we change the current focus from bridging to networking: DLN solves the known challenges of capital-efficiency, scalability, and security faced by classical bridges, presenting an improved, innovative new design that channels liquidity rapidly across chains, on demand. DLN — which will go live in the near future — is the successor to deSwap V1, and will drive deSwap V2.

EVENTS

7 October 2022: Community Call #10

We updated the community on the latest updates and some of the expected progress in the near future on Discord and Twitter Spaces. Hope to see you at the next one!

31 October 2022: Starknet CC session on design spaces of bridges

Our CEO and Co-Founder, Alex Smirnov, joined a panel hosted by StarkNet CC where the discussion was around the future of bridge design.

GET INVOLVED

We are looking for more great people to join us on our aim to continue developing a go-to generic messaging protocol and decentralized infrastructure that will securely and seamlessly connect blockchains, protocols, and applications. Here are some of the current open roles:

Senior Solidity Developer
JavaScript / TypeScript Software Engineer
Developer Relations
Ecosystem and Business Development
Designer

You can see our open roles here: debridge.finance/careers. Reach out to us if you want to join the team in a different role!

DEVELOPERS

Want to start building with deBridge today to seamlessly go cross-chain? Here are some helpful examples of cross-chain contracts for developers.
Here’s our deBridge developer portal. Check it out!
You can also get started integrating with our deSwap API to enable cross-chain swaps between any liquid assets in a matter of minutes. Different projects have already done it, and more will be announced in the near future. You can find more information here: https://debridge.finance/api
deBridge SDK makes it easier than ever to start going cross-chain.
An overview of different deBridge cross-chain dApp examples to help you on the way.
Hands-on video guide where we go through how to start building powerful cross-chain applications with the deBridge generic messaging protocol.
We will add more tutorials on integrating and building with deBridge. Contact us on Telegram or Discord, or by email at hello@debridge.finance to get started right away. We’re here to help you have the best integration experience possible💪

SOME HIGHLIGHTS

Protocol Stats 📊 deExplorer | deBridge Analytics | Dune analytics

$78M+ Transaction volume
$196k+ fee generated for the deBridge protocol.
116k+ transactions🌉
62k+ unique users
109 assets bridged (Anyone can permissionsly start bridging their assets to any chain to increase token utility and more via dePort)
7 chains supported (Many more to come in the near future👀)

deAlex on Twitter: "1/ Thrilled to give everyone a glimpse of what we've been working on at deBridge the last few months. If you believe in a cross-chain world(or don't), this video is for you👇 https://t.co/fTlUD9Xpd8 / Twitter"

1/ Thrilled to give everyone a glimpse of what we've been working on at deBridge the last few months. If you believe in a cross-chain world(or don't), this video is for you👇 https://t.co/fTlUD9Xpd8

Join our community today! Stay updated and get involved.
29k+ Twitter followers 👥

20k+ Discord members 👥

3600+ Telegram members 👥

6 international groups on Discord🌏

10 Community calls (See you at the next one!)📺

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Write-up by The Block on our new paradigm for cross-chain value transfers
How deBridge facilitates cross-chain interoperability for NFTs and Metaverses
We hit an ATH volume day on October 9, 2022
Why deBridge uses isolated security modules to safeguard against cross-chain risk contagion
How deBridge help bridge aggregators offer the best cross-chain rates
deSwap Liquidity Network will power a secure new paradigm for cross-chain value transfer in this piece by CryptoSlate

Now, that’s a wrap for October. Let’s make this November memorable with tons of exciting progress and development! We truly appreciate our community members and everyone that’s a part of the deBridge ecosystem.

If you’ve made it this far, thanks for reading. As always, stay tuned for additional updates, and be sure to follow us on Twitter or subscribe to our blog. Questions? Thoughts? Feedback? Join our Discord to get the conversation started.

deBridge Update — October 2022 was originally published in deBridge on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

deBridge now live in Frontier Wallet

deBridge — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 12:13:51 GMT

Enabling seamless in-app swaps across chains

We’re excited to announce that Frontier Wallet has integrated deBridge to power seamless cross-chain swaps between any assets in their “front seat to crypto & DeFi” superwallet! Frontier users can now enjoy the benefits of secure cross-chain interoperability, making one-click swaps and transfers across chains from a single interface.

“The future Web3 space will not only have workable interoperability, but also be more decentralized and secure. We are pleased to support Frontier wallet in enabling cross-chain solutions to expand more use cases for their users.” says Alex Smirnov, CEO & Co-Founder of deBridge.

Commenting on the integration, Ravindra Kumar, CEO & Co-Founder of Frontier, noted: “As more cross-chain opportunities emerge, we’ve focused on offering our users the most comprehensive and secure bridging options in any wallet. Partnering with deBridge was a perfect fit for us not just because of the protocol’s existing capabilities, but also the promising deSwap Liquidity Network solution that’s around the corner. We’re happy to note that Frontier Wallet users would be amongst the first to experience this revolutionary new bridging solution when it goes live this fall.”

Any Web3 app can integrate deBridge to enable smooth, flexible value transfers that abstract away all the frictions of a legacy cross-chain journey. With deSwap API, it’s simple for any application, wallet, or dApp to enable trustless cross-chain swaps by integrating a few lines of code.

We’re delighted to integrate with Frontier, weeks out from the launch of deSwap Liquidity Network, our zero-TVL solution for zero slippage value transfer across chains. Frontier users will be among the first to experience the fastest and most capital efficient cross-chain transfers available.

About Frontier Wallet

Frontier is a multi-chain, non-custodial DeFi wallet where you can buy, store, transact, swap, and invest in tokens and NFTs. Using your Frontier Wallet, you can easily earn passive income on your crypto by staking or supplying assets in DeFi apps. The Frontier Wallet offers a secure interface that lets users easily access a range of DeFi features with direct connectivity with dApps across chains.

Using Frontier, users can also track wallets, collect & manage NFTs and get push notifications on any transactions. Adding more chains and simplifying access to Web3, Frontier Wallet aims to make DeFi more accessible for the next billion users.

About deBridge

deBridge is on a mission to securely unite every blockchain and bring seamless interoperability to Web3. Since launching its cross-chain bridge, deSwap, deBridge has built a suite of solutions enabling Web3 teams to build powerful cross-chain applications across DeFi, NFTs, Metaverses, GameFi, and more. For more information, please visit: https://debridge.finance.

deBridge now live in Frontier Wallet was originally published in deBridge on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Thunder Lands integrates dePort for instant deployment to new chains

deBridge — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 13:44:35 GMT

Enabling universal access to TNDR token

We would like to welcome Thunder Lands to the deBridge ecosystem as they enable universal access to their innovative, dark fantasy metaverse! By using dePort, our native bridge for cross-chain token deployment, Thunder Labs will scale Thunder token (TNDR) across chains and grow their community as they tap into new ecosystems.

For Web3 projects, dePort offers a seamless and trustless way to deploy any token to new chains, instantly receiving a deAsset on the destination chain backed securely 1:1 by the native asset on the source chain.

We’re thrilled to collaborate with Thunder Lands and help them expand across Web3 using dePort, as we push forward giving teams from across the landscape all the tools they need to build powerful, secure applications that can scale anywhere.

Anyone can start bridging anything to their desired destination chain in a fast, seamless, and secure way. Get started with dePort here: https://debridge.finance/deport

About Thunder Lands

The Thunder Lands universe provides a unique gaming experience through a combination of traditional meta-game and blockchain mechanics. Based on play-to-earn mechanics, players will be able to farm resources, stake their NFTs and get TNDR tokens to increase their financial profit from the game.

About deBridge

Thunder Lands integrates dePort for instant deployment to new chains was originally published in deBridge on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

deSwap Liquidity Network (DLN): a secure new paradigm for depthless cross-chain value transfers

deBridge — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 11:05:58 GMT

Enabling limitless, zero slippage cross-chain value transfers with 0 TVL

We’re excited to reveal deSwap Liquidity Network, a new paradigm for cross-chain value transfers enabling secure, limitless transfers of liquidity across chains with zero locked liquidity.

deSwap Liquidity Network (DLN) solves the known challenges of capital-efficiency, scalability, and security faced by classical bridges, presenting an improved, innovative new design that channels liquidity rapidly across chains, on demand.

DLN — which will go live in the coming weeks — is the successor to deSwap V1, which was the first solution to enable cross-chain swaps between any liquid assets using the classical approach of locked liquidity + wrapped assets. So far, deSwap has processed 110k+ transactions from over 60k unique users earning $180k+ in total fees.

Solving all security, capital-efficiency, and scalability issues

Powered by the deBridge generic messaging protocol, deSwap Liquidity Network removes the need for locked liquidity, wrapped assets, and inefficient liquidity mining campaigns by shifting the paradigm from ‘locked liquidity’ to ‘liquidity on demand’. Here, incentives are distributed efficiently at the time of transfer, instead of a constant flow, regardless of demand.

Classical Bridges

DLN makes it simple to onboard additional blockchains without the need for liquidity mining campaigns, thereby solving the liquidity bottleneck faced by many ecosystems.

deSwap Liquidity Network

DLN is also by orders of magnitude more capital-efficient than classical bridges, avoiding conversion slippage, risk of MEV, and AMM fees (in the case of wrapped assets). All orders are settled with zero slippage with DLN.

With zero locked liquidity, DLN is significantly more secure than existing solutions as liquidity is transferred virtually instantly, avoiding the risk of contagion from one blockchain to another, or the creation of a honeypot that lures hackers.

For end-users, protocols, and Web3 apps, DLN enables zero slippage transfers of any size with the market’s lowest fees and fastest settlement. DLN is particularly suitable for high-throughput apps, offering large capital-efficient transfers with the option of cross-chain limit orders.

Features

Zero slippage on any order side
Unlimited market depth
Guaranteed rates and lowest fees
Fastest settlement for cross-chain transfers
Native token bridging (no wrapped assets)
Limit orders for cross-chain swaps
Zero locked liquidity at risk
Rapidly scalable for new blockchain support

Getting started with DLN today

We truly believe this new architecture is a robust solution to the current challenges faced by classical bridges in terms of security, scalability, and capital-efficiency. Protocols, dApps, wallets, or any Web3 application can contact us for early access.

Reach out here to be amongst the first to enable seamless zero slippage cross-chain transfers for your protocol or application, or to participate in the network and start monetizing idle liquidity.

deSwap Liquidity Network (DLN): a secure new paradigm for depthless cross-chain value transfers was originally published in deBridge on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

deBridge Update — September 2022

deBridge — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 11:58:57 GMT

deBridge Update — September 2022

We’re continuing to build out the deBridge ecosystem where we aim to deliver the best developer tooling and infrastructure for anyone to move to new ecosystems and build new types of cross-chain applications. Last month, we were busy working on different activities including taking part in ETHGlobal’s ETHOnline hackathon. Here’s an overview of our top highlights and latest progress.

Table of Content

Announcements
Events
Get involved
Dev updates
Some highlights
In case you missed it

ANNOUNCEMENTS

🏆3 ETHOnline winners that have best utilized the deBridge cross-chain infrastructure. Congratulations to Mint Tea, doTransfer, and DeForex for their great results, and to everyone else that built with deBridge infrastructure during the hackathon
👷deBridge Hardhat plugin has been released, makes building cross-chain apps safer, easier, and faster by providing a secure emulated environment for testing
🛡Our Solana transaction parser has been audited by Halborn
👨‍💻Node Guardians joins deBridge validator set
🤝Wirex and Plato have integrated deSwap API to enable seamless cross-chain swaps between any assets in one transaction
✅Users can now login to deApps via Unstoppable Domains

EVENTS

1 September 2022: Community Call #9

We updated the community on the latest updates and some of the expected progress in the near future on Discord and Twitter Spaces.

8 September 2022: AMA with Unstoppable Domains

Volodymyr Hlushchenko from Unstoppable Domains joins Alex Smirnov and Jonnie Emsley on our Twitter Space to discuss building towards Web2 UX in Web3.

15 September 2022: AMA with Rubic

Alex Smirnov participated in a Web3 panel with Rubic to discuss the topic of “ Cross-Chain Web3: The Future of dApps?”

GET INVOLVED

Content Strategist
Developer Relations
Ecosystem Advocate
Senior Solidity Developer
JavaScript / TypeScript Software Engineer
Designer

You can see our open roles here: debridge.finance/careers. Reach out to us if you want to join the team in a different role!

DEVELOPERS

Want to start building with deBridge today to seamlessly go cross-chain? Here are some examples of cross-chain contracts for developers.
Here’s our deBridge developer portal.
You can also get started integrating with our deSwap API to enable cross-chain swaps between any liquid assets in a matter of minutes. You can find more information here: https://debridge.finance/api
deBridge SDK makes it easier than ever to start going cross-chain.
An overview of different deBridge cross-chain dApp examples.
Hands-on video guide where we go through how to start building powerful cross-chain applications with the deBridge generic messaging protocol.
We will add more tutorials on integrating and building with deBridge. Contact us on Telegram or Discord, or by email at hello@debridge.finance to get started right away. We’re here to help you have the best integration experience possible💪

DEV UPDATES

Added Affiliate fee for new users brought in from a different site
Fixed bug with connection to a wallet in a new tab
Optimized CPU usage when using deApps
Fixed bug with claiming transactions when a wallet with another chain is connected
Fixed bug with clickable area in the wallet section when ‘claim transaction’ chart is open

SOME HIGHLIGHTS

Protocol Stats 📊 deExplorer | deBridge Analytics | Dune analytics

$68M+ Transaction volume
$181k+ fee generated for the deBridge protocol.
111k+ transactions🌉
60k+ unique users
106 assets bridged (Anyone can permissionsly start bridging their assets to any chain to increase token utility and more via dePort)
7 chains supported (Many more to come in the near future👀)

deAlex on Twitter: "I'd like to give a huge shoutout to all of deBridge's validators - for their professionalism and reliability in flawlessly maintaining the protocol's infrastructure.There hasn't been a single delay in validation or hiccup since the launch. True pros! 👇 / Twitter"

I'd like to give a huge shoutout to all of deBridge's validators - for their professionalism and reliability in flawlessly maintaining the protocol's infrastructure.There hasn't been a single delay in validation or hiccup since the launch. True pros! 👇

Join our community today! Stay updated and get involved.
28k+ Twitter followers 👥

20k+ Discord members 👥

3600+ Telegram members 👥

6 international groups on Discord🌏

9 Community calls (See you at the next one!)📺

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Alex Sminov joined Halborn Office Hours on Twitter Spaces to talk about secure interoperable cross-chain over the next 5 years.
Video guide made for ETHOnline showing the anatomy of a trustless cross-chain transaction
deBridge’s response to the ETH Merge
Everstake has put together a step-by-step video guide on how anyone can start using deSwap

Now, that is a wrap for September 2022. Let’s make this October memorable with tons of exciting progress and development! We truly appreciate our community members and everyone that’s a part of the deBridge ecosystem.

If you’ve made it this far, thanks for reading. As always, stay tuned for additional updates, and be sure to follow us on Twitter or subscribe to our blog. You can also join our Discord server to hear about the newest happenings from deBridge and give us feedback.

deBridge Update — September 2022 was originally published in deBridge on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

deSwap API now integrated in Wirex Wallet

deBridge — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:03:06 GMT

Enabling secure trustless cross-chain value exchange for Wirex users

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that deBridge is now powering cross-chain value transfers for keyless non-custodial wallet, Wirex Wallet!

Wirex Wallet is a decentralized wallet application hosting dApp functionality, NFT support and now cross-chain value exchange, via our battle-tested deSwap API. deBridge, the interoperability layer powering deSwap, serves as a unifying framework for all cross-chain requirements, connecting any smart contract on any blockchain, and enabling any type of cross-chain interaction with message and value transfer.

For Wirex Wallet, deBridge enables any user to effortlessly swap any tokens across supported blockchains directly in-app, with seamless one-transaction swaps to the destination chain making for a fully intuitive user experience.

Asked what integrating with deBridge means for Wirex’s CEO and Co-Founder, Pavel Matveev said, “The Wirex Wallet was built to be the world’s first mass-market wallet, and we’re carefully selecting trusted partners that will help us achieve this goal. With the integration of deSwap, Wirex users will be able to easily swap their assets across different chains in-app, which can be a long, complicated and expensive process. This will enable customers to utilize the benefits of different blockchains.”

deSwap API makes it easy to enable decentralized cross-chain swaps between any assets into any application (web apps, wallets, dApps), integrating in just a few lines of code. Here, deBridge acts as an abstraction layer for all types of cross-chain interactions and messages, with frictionless cross-chain swaps being only one of the many options that we enable.

Moving forward, we’ll see more and more teams across Web3 utilizing cross-chain technologies to drive growth and improve user experience for their users. Step by step, we are removing friction from the experience of going cross-chain while bringing full interoperability and interconnectivity to Web3.

About Wirex

Wirex is a worldwide digital payment platform and regulated institution that has forged new rules in the digital payments space. In 2015, the firm developed the world’s first contactless payment card that gives users the ability to seamlessly spend crypto and traditional currencies in real life.

Wirex was created in 2014 by CEOs and co-founders Pavel Matveev and Dmitry Lazarichev to make the digital economy accessible to everyone.

Wirex’s mission is to bridge the gap between conventional and cryptocurrencies with an overall goal to usher in a cashless society and the mainstream adoption of the digital economy.

About deBridge

deBridge is a secure interoperability layer for Web3, making it easy for developers to build scalable cross-chain apps with universal reach. With quick integration, rich developer tooling, and framework-agnostic design, deBridge is a highly scalable interoperability solution with the best developer experience, enabling:

Cross-chain composability of smart contracts
Cross-chain swaps between any assets
Bridging of any arbitrary asset and message in one transaction
Interoperability and bridging of NFTs

deSwap API now integrated in Wirex Wallet was originally published in deBridge on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

deBridge Hardhat plugin is now live!

deBridge — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 11:38:21 GMT

Safely test your integration with deBridge in an emulated environment

We’re pleased to announce the release of the deBridge Hardhat plugin, making it easy to fully test an integration with deBridge in a secure emulated environment. The plugin provides a full toolkit for testing and emulating dApps built with, or on top of, the deBridge protocol.

Given the complexity of the deBridge protocol itself and the number of different components involved in the integration flow, until now it has been a more comprehensive process to undergo development and sufficient unit testing when building cross-chain dApps on deBridge.

Our Hardhat plugin abstracts away all of this complexity, as a toolkit for facilitating a lightweight and effective emulation environment. By mirroring the behavior of the deBridge mainnet, the plugin gives developers the ability to validate any cross-chain interactions as follows:

Developing unit test cases for your contracts, or developing integration test cases to validate the behavior and the interaction between the contracts intended to reside on the different chains and communicate through the deBridgeGate: deBridge infrastructure emulator is a part of a runtime (runtime emulation);
Performing functional tests on the deBridge infrastructure emulator running as a local process.

By making it easier to facilitate an effective emulation environment, the Hardhat plugin streamlines the process of successful integration with deBridge.

How to get started

Hardhat-debridge is an NPM-packaged plugin, meaning it’s easy to hook it up to existing projects with just one command — as long as you’ve installed and configured Hardhat, no additional configuration is needed to get started.

The key concept behind the plugin is a loopback bridge. Here, the emulator deploys a single smart contract for accepting and receiving messages, so when the message is committed to the deBridgeGate contract in the local chain, it is broadcasted and executed back in the same local chain. This design makes it possible to use the battle-tested Hardhat network.

How can I use the deBridge Hardhat plugin?

The plugin offers two options/features to simplify the development of cross-chain dApps.

Writing automated unit tests

For writing unit tests to cover the cross-chain communication between your contracts from top to bottom — the plugin offers a set of handy functions that are useful in writing automated tests in Hardhat:

deployGate() method deploys a fresh instance of the deBridgeGate smart contract and configures it so it reflects the local network peculiarities. The deployed contract behaves the same way as the one deployed on the public mainnet chains, as it is being deployed from the vanilla source code of the deBridge smart contracts, no tricks attached. It is intended to be used in before() and beforeEach() hooks — deploy as many contracts as you need, a fresh instance for every test case.
autoClaim() method reads the messages that were sent to the local deBridgeGate contract, re-packs each and sends back to the same smart contract for execution, effectively emulating the cross-chain operations in just one call.

Emulating the deBridge protocol

The second major use case for the Hardhat plugin is emulating the entire deBridge infrastructure layer.

The plugin provides a ‘deBridge-run-emulator’ daemon script that, when started, attaches itself to the given network (e.g. the local node), deploys a fresh instance of the deBridgeGate smart contract and configures it to reflect the local network peculiarities, and starts capturing messages coming into it.

The deployed contract behaves precisely the same as one deployed on public mainnet chains. Whenever a new message is captured, it re-packs each and sends back to the same smart contract for execution, effectively emulating the cross-chain operations. It also prints the details of its operations to the console in a human-readable format. Thanks to this, the plugin enables you to:

Use additional tools with the plugin, for example deSDK: you can write automated tests where submissions (sent to the plugin’s deployment of the deBridgeGate contract) are handled by the deSDK explicitly.
Run local nodes forked from mainnet chains to provide access to mainnet-only features, e.g. live LPs, DEXes, etc.

Here’s a video of our Solidity Lead, Alexey Churkin, giving a technical overview of the Hardhat plugin:

https://medium.com/media/d1eeebf4cd2eaedce5daf56cdb6796b2/href

Building for Web3 developers

We want to make it as secure and seamless as possible for projects and builders to start transferring value and messages across chains with deBridge. With that, it’s crucial to have development tools that will help facilitate this process. That’s why we’re so excited about the deBridge Hardhat plugin and the other tools we have published in the past like deSDK, deSwap API, and more.

We’re looking forward to hearing your input and feedback, and hope in general that the plugin helps streamline your build by providing a secure environment for testing. deBridge will continue to build out our secure interoperability layer for Web3 and make cross-chain development the best possible experience for Web3 builders.

deBridge Hardhat plugin is now live! was originally published in deBridge on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

deBridge Update — August 2022

deBridge — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 14:41:39 GMT

deBridge Update — August 2022

The month of August has come to a close and there has been some amazing advancement and development taking place! We continue to actively BUILD out the deBridge ecosystem across different areas. Here’s what happened within the last month.

Table of Content

ANNOUNCEMENTS

✅ deBridge SDK (deSDK) is released, making it easier than ever to go cross-chain and to start building powerful dApps where value and messages flow seamlessly
👨‍💻 deBridge is sponsoring ETHOnline. We welcome all builders to come build amazing cross-chain applications during the hackathon and win prizes. deBridge started as a winner of Chainlink hackathon and that opened us a ton of opportunities and helped to bootstrap the project. Now we are at the stage where we want to help other fellow builders to make an impact on Web3 and build efficient cross-chain solutions

⚙️ Transaction bundling and Affiliate fee settings available for deSwap Widget
🕵deBridge was the subject of an attempted cyberattack, apparently by the Lazarus group. No damage was done and we discovered it through our internal processes
👐Our Solana transaction parser is now open source. An important tool in the development, debugging, and inspecting of transactions in a human-readable format for Solana builders
⭐️ New brand positioning and design toward building a secure interoperability layer for Web3
🤝 Minimax has integrated deBridge
😍 deSwap and dePort have a new UI design for a more seamless user experience

EVENTS

17 August 2022: Security AMA: Building towards a Secure Cross-Chain Future

Alex Smirnov joins Mudit Gupta from Polygon and David from Halborn to discuss the current cross-chain ecosystem and details about security-related events on a Twitter pace.

25 August 2022: AMA with Rubic

Vladimir and Collin from Rubic appeared on our Discord to discuss Rubic’s integration with deBridge and the progress thus far.

GET INVOLVED

The deBridge team is growing. We are looking for great people to join us on our aim to continue developing a go-to generic messaging protocol and decentralized infrastructure that will securely and seamlessly connect blockchains, protocols, and applications. Here are some of the open roles:

Developer Relations
Ecosystem Integration
Senior Solidity Developer
Senior Angular Developer
JavaScript / TypeScript Software Engineer
Designer

You can see our open roles here: debridge.finance/careers. Reach out to us if you want to join the team in a different role!

DEVELOPERS

Want to start building with deBridge today to seamlessly go cross-chain? Here are some examples of cross-chain contracts for developers.
Here’s our deBridge developer portal
You can also get started integrating with our deSwap API to enable cross-chain swaps between arbitrary liquid assets in a matter of minutes. You can find more information here: https://debridge.finance/api
deBridge SDK makes it easier than ever to start going cross-chain.
A great example of how to use the deBridge infrastructure, check out the cross-chain oracle demo by AngelDAO.
An overview of different deBridge cross-chain dApp examples.
We will add more tutorials on integrating and building with deBridge in the near future. If you’re ready to get started right away, contact us on Telegram or Discord, or by email at hello@debridge.finance. If you have any questions or comments concerning the process, please contact us. We’re here to help you have the best integration experience possible💪

DEV UPDATES

deBridge redesign: landings, widget, deApps
Added transaction bundling for widget
deExplorer 2.0: New charts, animations

SOME HIGHLIGHTS

Protocol Stats 📊 deExplorer | deBridge Analytics | Dune analytics

$64M+ Transaction volume

$173k+ fee generated for validators

108k+ transactions🌉

59k+ unique users

105 assets bridged

7 chains supported (So far👀)

deAlex on Twitter: "There is no need to develop your own blockchain when building a bridge/interoperability tech 🌉That's additional complexity, another throughput bottleneck, another attack surface. Lots of problems and zero advantages / Twitter"

There is no need to develop your own blockchain when building a bridge/interoperability tech 🌉That's additional complexity, another throughput bottleneck, another attack surface. Lots of problems and zero advantages

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