Improving Cross-Chain Connectivity: Addressing Challenges and Optimizing the User Experience of Bridges

1. Route Inventory

• Routes to/from top chains (by market cap)
• Key metrics: cost, time, liquidity, user activity

You can review this Excel sheet: Bridge - Research doc

We can split bridges/message protocols into 4 main families:

A/ Non custodial & decentralized (Trustless):

• Snowbridge/Turtle
• Hyperbridge

Pros: TRUSTLESS

Cons: less integration and limited possibilities, unknown to users

B/ Non custodial & decentralized (with Liquidity pools splitsplitted on every connected network for most):

• ChainFlip
• SquidRouter
• Axelar
• Symbiosis
• Stargate
• Wormhole
• DeBridge
• And many more… (Li.Fi, Rhino.fi, Orbiter.finance)