A brand new bridge connecting the Layer 2 Base and Solana blockchains developed by Coinbase is now stay on mainnet, permitting customers and builders to maneuver belongings immediately between the 2 ecosystems.
The Base-Solana bridge, secured by Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) and Coinbase, permits the buying and selling and use of Solana-based tokens, together with SOL and different SPL belongings, on decentralized purposes constructed on Base.
Early adopters embrace apps like Zora, Aerodrome, Virtuals, Flaunch, and Relay.
For customers, this implies they’ll deposit Solana tokens into Base-based decentralized purposes that combine the bridge and start buying and selling and interacting with out leaving the Base atmosphere.
For builders, it permits native assist for native Solana belongings inside their purposes.
“By leveraging Chainlink CCIP because the cross-chain infrastructure securing the Base-Solana Bridge, Base permits builders to construct essentially the most safe cross-chain purposes and transfer the trade towards trusted interoperability requirements adopted by the world’s largest monetary establishments,” stated Johann Eid, Chief Enterprise Officer at Chainlink Labs.
“That is how on-chain finance will scale to securely assist the worldwide market and the tons of of trillions of worth it represents,” Eid added.
The bridge is open supply and publicly accessible on GitHub, permitting any group to combine cross-chain assist, and represents a step towards a broader imaginative and prescient of interconnected blockchains and “always-on” capital markets. Solana is the primary chain to be linked, and extra chains are anticipated to observe.
