Powering Lightning Fast Bridging, Native L2 Restaking, Chain Abstraction, Crosschain Governance, and more. Build powerful crosschain dApps only with Connext. ⚡️
More than a bridge.
Connext is a protocol to build universally accessible, interconnected dApps. It's the public good layer that enables a 1,000 rollup world - the interchain. 🌐
It's what's NEXT for Web3.
.
@MetaMask
, the most popular web3 non-custodial wallet, has integrated
@ConnextNetwork
🔥.
Users can now bridge via their portfolio app and the Metamask browser extension!
📣MetaMask Bridge now offers routes supported by
@ConnextNetwork
!
You’ll see Connext quotes for bridge requests across Eth Mainnet, Polygon, BNB Chain, Optimism, and Arbitrum.
Gain quick access at , or click the button in the 🦊extension!
Gm! 🎉 We’re thrilled to announce that Connext closed a $7.5m strategic fundraising round on a $250m valuation. This brings the total capital raised by Connext Labs to $23.2M.
Huge thanks to
@FortuneMagazine
for featuring us. More info on the round & what we’re doing below.
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History time!
@ConnextNetwork
was founded in 2017 with a simple mission: find a way to bring
@ethereum
to a billion users.
Here's a look at our journey so far, and how we’ve ended up becoming an interoperability protocol.
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Builders, Anons, Degens, and Frens: WE ARE READY!
Amarok, the network upgrade of
@ConnextNetwork
, is finally complete, and it's ready to be launched in Beta in the coming weeks.
🚨 New Integration:
@ConnextNetwork
🤝
@ThemisProtocol
Opening up new opportunities for ✖️chain liquidity: Connext routers can increase their liquidity efficiency, and Themis users will be able to access liquidity on any chain.
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A NEW CHAPTER IN CROSSCHAIN INNOVATION
➡️ We are thrilled to announce the airdrop of NEXT!
A huge step forward for the decentralization of the Connext ecosystem, the NEXT distribution will also be a first-of-its-kind crosschain airdrop.
As always, beware of scams ⚠️
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After 1 year of R&D, we’re excited to announce that Connext’s Amarok upgrade is live!
Connext becomes the ONLY solution that:
🔐Maximizes security for any bridging path: the most trust-minimized xchain protocol - EVER
⚙️Is a platform to build xApps
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Interacting with a dApp across chains today is difficult and time-consuming: select the right network, bridge assets, get gas tokens,…
Web3 users deserve a better experience.
Introducing Chain Abstraction: onboard users from anywhere, regardless of the chain they are on.
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🚨 Vector is on mainnet! 🚨
🤯 This means seamless communication to, from, and between L2 systems *works today*.
👋 Say hello to the the beginning of a multichain Ethereum ecosystem!
1/ We are excited to announce that Connext is bringing its interoperability protocol to
@zkSync
. Users will soon be able to transfer assets between 11+ supported chains & zkSync instantly and cheaply.
1/ After carefully reviewing user tickets and feedback, we found a few cases where transactions were not counted towards the airdrop as we intended. We’re happy to report that we’ve successfully corrected for this. Here’s what you need to know:
Things are back on track!
Claims were reenabled & are flowing smoothly.
A new era for Connext is starting. The Connext community, core contributing teams, and broader ecosystem unlocked a new level of cooperation: The ConnextDAO.
Let's work together on WHAT'S NEXT.
We are deeply saddened by the earthquake that devastated Turkey & Syria & our hearts go out to all those affected.
Over the past 48h, we developed & audited a system to allow
@TurkeyReliefDAO
to noncustodially accept donations across multiple chains.
WEN $NEXT - Update
Given recent market conditions and volatility, we have decided to delay our token distribution temporarily. Below you’ll find the reasons behind this decision and the next steps we are putting in place to transition Connext into a DAO.
gm all.
We're aware of the issue affecting the airdrop website, preventing users from claiming.
We have detected bot activity that is overloading our partner and service provider server, Tokensoft. They are actively working to address this, to enable normal claiming.
There's a…
Last week we went live on
@EvmosOrg
, the layer 1 that is both EVM-compatible and connected to the Cosmos ecosystem via IBC.
You can now bridge tokens from over 14 chains.
Here is why we are excited to work with them.
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We’re extremely excited to embrace the
#xERC20
token standard that encourages open competition & innovation. Reduced liquidity costs for token issuers + granular security 🙌.
@AlchemixFi
is the 1st adopter via
@ConnextNetwork
, with more trailblazers to follow!
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What if you could restake $ETH on
@Eigenlayer
, but from any L2 you want?
Connext infrastructure makes this a reality.
💰 Save on fees
⚡ Reduce friction
🧑🌾 Unlock multi-layered yield opportunities
Introducing "Restake from Anywhere" with
#Connext
👇 🧵
🤯 Mindblowing.
@makoto_inoue
built a way to instantly arbitrage stablecoins between
@Uniswap
forks across different chains/L2s using Connext. 🔥
1. USDC->USDT on
@QuickswapDEX
2. USDT-Matic -> USDT-BSC via Connext
3. USDT->USDC on
@PancakeSwap
2/ The crosschain airdrop will allow users to claim NEXT on the chain of their choice directly!
On Sept 5th at 1 pm UTC, you can claim NEXT on
@Arbitrum
@optimismFND
@0xPolygon
or
@gnosischain
.
The ONLY page to verify eligibility is:
🚨NEW CHAIN ALERT🚨
It's finally here, Ethereum mainnet support is now live!
You can transfer to/from Ethereum directly from Polygon, Fantom, BSC, Arbitrum, Avalanche & xDai.
Try it out at 👉
Leading teams choose Connext.
Why has
@MetaMask
decided to integrate
@ConnextNetwork
?
🔒 Security, extensibility and flexibility 🔀
Which dApp would you love to see go crosschain?
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📣MetaMask Bridge now offers routes supported by
@ConnextNetwork
!
You’ll see Connext quotes for bridge requests across Eth Mainnet, Polygon, BNB Chain, Optimism, and Arbitrum.
Gain quick access at , or click the button in the 🦊extension!
The strength of
@ConnextNetwork
lies in being a trust-minimized and expressive execution layer that connects chains and L2s.
Builders can use it to create apps that securely interact with any smart contract, all funds, all users, wherever they are.
Think of it as universal…
🚧 Cross-chain interop is the biggest barrier to L2 adoption today.
🌐 Over the last few months, we've quietly built Vector: a x-chain routing network that works with L2s, Eth2 shards, and even other L1 chains.
↗️ Vector is now on testnet! Learn more 👇
We're thrilled to announce our infrastructure partnership with
@gelatonetwork
.
Connext is using Gelato under the hood for highly reliable metatransactions as a core part of our crosschain tx flow. 🚀
Learn more:
Gm! We're incredibly excited to unveil what we've been working on for the past few months.
Announcing 🐺Amarok: The first network upgrade of Connext.
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It's official!
Connext is now live on
@MetisL2
🌿, one of the fastest-growing L2s in the space!
⚡️ With a single click, users can now securely bridge:
→ $WETH
→ $USDC
→ $USDT
→ $METIS
And devs, if you're building on Metis, keep reading 👇
🔵 Connext is now live on
@Base
!
Our first order of business?
@RenzoProtocol
users will soon be able to restake native ETH through
@EigenLayer
directly on Base without ever interacting with Ethereum.
Getting those ezPoints has never been easier 🥳
Here's how it works 🧵↓
Want to catch the NEXT big thing? 🪂
@ConnextNetwork
has unveiled a cross-chain airdrop for the NEXT token!
Find out how you can claim the tokens on your chain of choice without incurring gas fees, all thanks to Gelato Relay!
We’re excited to announce that we’re rebranding xPollinate to Connext Bridge (), to consolidate our brand identity and to make it simpler for end-users to use the network.
A new fantastic batch of delegate candidates to be reviewed.
Web3 pioneers, from organizations to founders, researchers, and activists, are uniting to drive the ConnextDAO forward.
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1/ Earlier this year, we announced the Amarok network upgrade to overcome limitations in Connext v1. It introduces support for arbitrary message passing, enabling developers to integrate easily into our network to build fully expressive xchain (cross-chain) applications (xApps).
The ability of
@ConnextNetwork
to pass any arbitrary message across chains means that crosschain token transfers are just a subset of the use cases that can be built on top of it.
Moving data is much more powerful: for example,
@thekeep3r
created trustless crosschain oracles.…
The Themis
#airdrop
event is finally here!
$TMS will be airdropped to select
#DeFi
communities. First dibs for Themis community members.
Here’s how it’s going down🧵👇
🚨 It's Liquidity Time!⛲
Provide liquidity to help bootstrap the Connext network upgrade before the official launch Thursday.
Here's an explanation on how liquidity works under the hood and how to LP.
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DeFi on
@LineaBuild
just got a boost! 🔼
Users can now restake $ETH on
@RenzoProtocol
directly from Linea, enabling builders to benefit from TVL retention & growth. 🌱
There's no need for withdrawals to Mainnet anymore.
Restake from Linea on Renzo here:
Post-mortem of claim issues at launch time yesterday:
tl;dr: An attacker intentionally DOS’d
@TokensoftInc
's API to take down the claim database and UI. While this was happening, 274,956 NEXT from 253 previously compromised wallets (unrelated to Connext) were claimed and sold…
We are very excited to announce that Connext is forming a partnership with
@layerswap
to enable on-ramp from CEXs to a broader list of chains & L2s. The integration is now live starting with
@0xPolygon
support!
🥳
@Connext
is excited to have helped bring
@RenzoProtocol
to
@BNBCHAIN
to enable native ETH restaking!
With a TVL of $5.8B+ & home to over 730 protocols, restaking on BNB Chain has the potential to be monumental.
"But how does this work?"
Details 🧵↓
41% of the eligible wallets have already claimed their NEXT!
Eligible addresses: 57,801
Total claims so far: 23,714
Which chains are being used to claim?
Who are the top delegates so far?
Some great dashboards have started to pop up.
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1/ What happens when a streaming protocol
@Superfluid_HQ
joins forces and integrates with secure bridges
@ConnextNetwork
and
@nomadxyz_
? A new primitive for crosschain streaming is born.
Exciting news! 🍷
After months of hard work, we're thrilled to announce the Bacco Network Upgrade. Bacco drastically reduces the operational cost of the network and allows Connext to rapidly expand to new chains & L2s! 🎉
Read the full announcement:
1/ In 2018, it became clear that the biggest bottleneck for onboarding users was that
@ethereum
didn’t scale.
We became one of the earliest teams doing R&D on L2s. Specifically, we focused on state channels with the goal of trying to scale crypto payments.
Welcome, the first cross-chain restaking integration on
@eigenlayer
Renzo, in collaboration with
@ConnextNetwork
are bringing cross-chain restaking to
@Arbitrum
Users will be able to seamlessly restake natively on
@Arbitrum
Follow Renzo for more information on launch details…
Each query in the
@graphprotocol
network is attached to a microtransaction to a Graph indexer.
At todays volume, that means over *600 million transfers per day* 😱
We're incredibly excited to unveil our 2 year collaboration to build Scalar: ultrascalable transfers in the Graph.
After nearly 2 years of R&D on state channels, The Graph Foundation is excited to unveil Scalar, a microtransaction solution built on the
@ConnextNetwork
’s Vector for fast & cheap query fee transactions in The Graph Network! 🚀 🚀 🚀
🟣The
@arbitrum
Odyssey is there🟣
Starting June 21st at 1 pm EST, by using the selected bridges/cexs including
@ConnextNetwork
Bridge to move ETH into Arbitrum, you’ll be able to claim the first NFT after the week ends.
Find details below:
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2/ Fun fact:
In partnership w/
@SpankChain
& an
@ethereum
Foundation grant, we were the 1st team to go live on mainnet with a trust-minimized L2 system that was not purpose-built for a specific use case.
It was a hub-and-spoke state channel network.
We're excited to announce that the first Connext Hub,
@SpankChain
, is LIVE on the
@ethereum
mainnet.
This is the *first* non-custodial payment channel hub being used for real payments in production!
Read the full announcement here:
It’s time to present the Connext DAO Governance Framework, which introduces:
📜 The Constitution
📌 The Governance Process
🛡️ The Security Council
To ensure transparent, fair, and impactful decentralized governance for the Connext Collective.
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Connext has been growing *fast*.
That growth has created UX problems in the form of liquidity scarcity. We've known this was coming, and have been working solution.
Today, we're introducing Virtual AMMs and Liquidity Auctions.
(Summary thread 🧵)
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1/ At approximately 9:32 pm UTC yesterday, an attacker began exploiting a bug in Nomad’s Ethereum smart contract, resulting in the theft of approximately $190M. Here’s what we know so far and what you can expect from us in the coming days:
12/ As always, ⚠️ Please Stay Diligent and be mindful of scams:
Check contract addresses, never share your private keys, and always verify URLs.
Our Discord:
Full announcement with more details:
It's time for NEXT!
Understanding bridges and their underlying protocols is no easy task.
They are complex and critical pieces of the web3 infrastructure.
Let's understand how they are built, and - importantly - how they can be secure.
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🚨NEW CHAIN ALERT🚨
Optimistic Ethereum is now available!
Users can instantly transfer assets to/from
@optimismPBC
directly from other L2s & sidechains at
More details 👉
A year ago, Connext was a 4 person core team w/ only a test network
Today, we're 14 people w/ $900m in volume, $24m liquidity, and a fast growing ecosystem of dapps
None of this would be possible without our wonderful community.♥️Here's to you Connext fam, happy holidays! 🥂🎅
🚨NEW CHAIN ALERT🚨
We are delighted to announce that Connext will be integrating
@MoonriverNW
, an Ethereum-compatible smart contract platform in Kusama, into its L2 interoperability protocol.
@Cryptogon1
@lemiscate
Lots of folks going from BSC to Polygon right now, so we're trying to scale up and rebalance liquidity.
Working on a more long term solution for this soon as well!
The
@0xPolygon
vision of an internet of chains makes the case for Connext *much* stronger.
That's why we've partnered up with
@0xPolygon
to build the multichain future! 🤝
Incredibly excited to announce our $2.2m seed round from
@polychaincap
,
@1kxnetwork
, and
@HuobiGlobal
! 💥
Multichain Ethereum is just getting started. Want to help us build it? We're hiring 👉