Recently, an anonymous group of whitehat security researchers reached out to the LayerZero team and reported an issue regarding potential griefing of applications by blocking messaging chain paths. After vetting the claim, our entire development team entered a war room to gauge the potential severity and exposure of the issue…

If this past week has shown us anything, it’s that there is nothing more critical in this space than an absolute commitment to continuously evaluating and improving security. Not just once, but an ongoing process of continuous hardening. This is why we’re extremely pleased to announce and demonstrate our commitment…

tldr: stop the hack before it ever happens Today bridges are being hacked semi-regularly for larger and larger sums of money. Most of these hacks are smart contract related and have nothing to do with their transport layer. Yet these transport layers still deliver the final blow in sending the…

The wait is over, LayerZero is now live (in beta) and like our docs lets not waste your time and get right to it. Chains We’re live on Ethereum, Avalanche, Polygon, BNB Chain, Fantom, Arbitrum and Optimism. In 6–8 weeks consider Solana, Terra, Cosmos Hub and Osmosis slam dunks and LayerZero to be everywhere in 4–6 months. Stargate Launch Stargate, the first bridge to solve the Bridging Trilemma, launches on top of LayerZero (and all 7 chains) in two days. Learn about how to participate in liquidity generation event that starts in two days here.

tldr: 0xMaki has joined LayerZero full time, LFG! The rumors are true: 0xMaki has joined LayerZero full time (keeping his advisors positions)and in fact Maki has stealthily been a part of the LayerZero team for a few months now. How did this happen? A few months ago when we announced…

tldr: bridges are dead, long live bridges The omnichain universe is here to stay, but the infrastructure is fragmented. For bridging, the focus is on user driven asset movement between chains. Although this sounds like an intuitive approach, it’s actually far from practical. For example if you want to yield…

tldr: IBC everywhere (through LayerZero) Today the vast Cosmos ecosystem is connected via Cosmos’s Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (IBC). Recently, Tendermint chains such as Terra have enabled IBC which will connect them to Cosmos Hub, Osmosis, and many others.The …

tldr; we introduce a fully composable native asset bridge with unified liquidity and instant guaranteed finality built on top of LayerZero In designing a bridge there are three attractive features architects strive to include: Instant Guaranteed Finality: the guarantee of funds on the destination chain when a transaction is successfully…

tldr; Interoperability that actually works For cross-chain bridging and messaging, almost every existing approach falls into one of two broad categories. The first is having a consensus forming middle chain validate and forward messages between chains. The second is running a light node on-chain. Let’s discuss. Middle Chain Middle chains receive, validate…