Superlane unlocks many of the benefits of the Superchain, such as shared liquidity and interchain applications, without the wait.
Importantly, Superlane’s modular design enables a seamless transition to Superchain native interoperability when it comes out.
Why Superchain?
@Optimism saw the fragmentation from new L2s and proposed the Superchain, a shared interoperability layer. By unifying OP Stack rollups in bridging, governance, upgrades, and liquidity, the Superchain acts like a single chain.
And now Superchain comes early.
How Superlane Started
@VelodromeFi contributors recognized the potential of Hyperlane as a future-proof interoperability solution that could seamlessly transition connected chains to the Superchain.
Specifically, Superlane is possible because of Hyperlane's open framework:
Permissionless Scaling
Hyperlane allows anyone to self-deploy interop on their OP Stack rollup, out-of-the-box.
This enables Hyperlane to scale to every chain, faster than traditional interoperability solutions that require core teams to deploy.
Superlane -> Superchain
Hyperlane is built with modular security, allowing developers to customize and swap out the security models verifying messages between chains.
This enables future security models, like Superchain native interop, to be easily plugged in once ready.
Immediate Use Cases: Velodrome
At launch, @VelodromeFi will leverage Superlane to expand its reach as the liquidity layer for the Superchain:
• Interchain XVELO token as a Superchain ERC20
• Interchain XVELO emissions
• Interchain gauges and gauge voting
What's Next?
Superlane will be live and available to all Superchain rollups in November.
To support Superlane adoption, Velodrome is fully covering incentives for Hyperlane validators who service partner Superchain rollups.
• Shared standards and resources compound the tech stack
• Easier and cheaper to launch new chains
• Makes interchain apps possible without introducing systemic risk
• Easier to abstract away the entire blockchain experience.
It sounds great in theory, but with all these new rollups comes the tradeoff of increasingly fragmented state and liquidity.
So the logical next question is: How do we connect everything and avoid this fragmentation? Here’s how Hyperlane can help:
The @Hyperlane_xyz x @eigenlayer flywheel:
- More Hyperlane economic security
- More security attracts more developer activity
- More activity drives more fee revenue for validators
- More fee revenue bootstraps restaking demand
Unlike other interoperability systems, Hyperlane is uniquely suited for Eigenlayer restaking.
- Hyperlane uses smart contract fraud proofs.
- Hyperlane does not require an honest majority assumption because Hyperlane validators stake on source chains and sign outbound messages.
Today your apps can share state across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, Avalanche, BNB and Celo, enabling interchain composability with Abacus.
We’ve launched what we’re calling Mainnet Alpha, read on to learn all about it
1/ So what is Mainnet Alpha? It's phase 1 for Abacus and Interchain apps
This sets a foundation for future releases and the growth of the Abacus Network. Despite being an ‘alpha’ release, it enables Abacus' core value prop; interchain messaging and interchain applications.
2/ Future releases will improve the functionality and bolster the security of the network.
The most notable upcoming additions will be PoS on every supported network for general security, and Sovereign Consensus, for app specific security.
Abacus is a developer platform for building interchain applications. Developers can use Abacus to build applications that share state across multiple blockchains using Abacus' generalized interchain messaging protocol.
Curious to learn more? Read on below
The success of decentralized applications over the past few years has been driven in large part by composability. Composability has allowed applications to function as “building blocks” that can be mixed, matched, and extended in an exponentially growing number of combinations.
But the success of multiple blockchains has created barriers to composability. Because chains are not natively interoperable, applications are only composable within their own ecosystem.