Build custom multichain protocols
Developers can grow liquidity and users at scale with an open-source, time-tested messaging protocol engineered with security, decentralization, and modularity at its core.
Integrate easily
Integrate token bridging in just 3 lines of code with Connect, or implement custom cross-chain messaging integrations via the core contracts or the Wormhole SDK.
Accelerate growth
Accelerate the growth of your users and liquidity by connecting to the leading multi-chain network comprised of 25+ blockchains, thousands of apps, and billions of dollars in value.
Build securely
Security is held core to the Messaging protocol. The protocol uses signed Verified Action Approvals (VAAs) as a core primitive, Guardian nodes run full nodes for every connected blockchain, and relayers are untrusted in the mechanism.
Maintain decentralization
Wormhole is the most decentralized cross-chain messaging protocol, operated by a decentralized set of 19 validators called Guardians.
Future-proof your project
As the decentralized computing ecosystem evolves, Wormhole’s modularity allows to update its architecture and messaging mechanisms without breaking integrations.
Scale with time-tested tools
Operating since early 2021, Wormhole was the first-ever generic messaging protocol for blockchains and has strengthened and expanded over time.
How it works
Verification
Send messages cross-chain using a variety of verification methods to attest to the validity of a message. These options are all available to developers in Wormhole’s platform, depending on the chains involved in a given transaction, and the verification methods will continue to grow over time to incorporate new technologies.
Wormhole Guardians
Wormhole Guardians are a core element of the Wormhole Messaging protocol. It’s a decentralized network of 19 world-class validators that observe the Core Contract on each supported chain and produce verifiable approvals when those contracts receive a message from the Wormhole Messaging protocol.
Wormhole IBC
Wormhole Messaging also incorporates the Cosmos-native inter-blockchain communication protocol to power verification and transfers within the Cosmos ecosystem, leveraging the Wormhole Gateway appchain. IBC works in tandem with the Guardian network to verify and attest to messages.
Wormhole XCM
Wormhole Messaging also integrates Polkadot's native Cross-Consensus Messaging (XCM) as a verification method through Moonbeam Routed Liquidity (MRL). XCM allows any data or value to be routed from the broader Wormhole network to any parachain on Polkadot in a trust-minimized environment.
Relaying
Leverage heterogeneous relaying processes that enable a verified message to be sent to its intended destination. Relaying can be done in two different ways, with Automatic Relaying being the easiest path for most teams.
Automatic relaying
Quickly and easily leverage the off-chain components of cross-chain messaging with out-of-the-box cloud infrastructure provided for you.
Specialized relaying
Quickly and easily leverage the off-chain components of cross-chain messaging with out-of-the-box cloud infrastructure provided for you.
Case studies
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Folks Finance
Folks Finance: non-custodial Algorand borrowing/lending protocol. Liquid Governance concept. Algorand governance: 3-month ALGO commit, maintain balance for rewards - illiquid/locked ALGO. Limits using ALGO in DeFi, other ecosystems for capital efficiency.
Hashflow
EVM, non-EVM chains enable cross-ecosystem DeFi. Key is cross-chain assets. Current experience tedious, expensive, risky for native EVM->non-EVM like Solana. Solution needed for seamless cross-chain unlocking full value.
Threshold
Threshold crypto unlocks digital asset utility/usability without centralized trust. Disperses operations across nodes, subset must collaborate. Enables decentralized control, security for assets sans intermediaries.
Pyth
As EVM-compatible and non-EVM blockchains emerged, DeFi users gained the ability to trade, lend, and transact across ecosystems.
Magpie
Bridging security, liquidity fragmented across protocols/assets. Hinders seamless exchanges, inefficiencies/barriers. Major impacts from cross-chain liquidity fragmentation. Prompted need for secure, efficient cross-chain asset swaps - Magpie solution.
Vitalik Buterin, Co-founder of Ethereum
David Schwartz, CTO of Ripple
Robinson Burkey, Co-founder of Wormhole Foundation
