deBridge Update — April 2022

Here’s everything you need to know about deBridge in April 2022.

deBridge

May 4, 2022 • 3 min read

From building new cross-chain solutions to meeting new friends at various industry events, here’s everything you need to know about deBridge in April. In April, deBridge cemented exciting new collaborations, expanded its interoperability ecosystem, and introduced significant new platform enhancements.

Table of Content
Announcements
Events
Get involved
Dev updates
Some highlights
In case you missed it

ANNOUNCEMENTS

🎂deBridge celebrated its 1 year anniversary on April 14! It will be an exciting journey ahead, we can’t wait to build out the deBridge ecosystem in the years to come with amazing projects, founders, partners and the community.
Integration of the 6th chain (Avalanche) into the deBridge ecosystem. We did some teasers prior to the announcement. Congrats to the winners!
🎉Have you joined our Cross-Chain Quest: Avalanche yet? Bridge assets to Avalanche and earn a cool NFT with utility! Just a few days left to participate.
🆕New features: slippage calculation and USD equivalent of token price.
🤝Via Protocol integrated the deSwap API.
🛡Partnering with security auditor Neodyme on our Solana module.
🖱 Reminder: You can generate your own invitation link on deSwap and share that with your community and people you know. Governance may thank you later👀 WAGMI.

EVENTS

13 April 2022: deBridge Community Call #6

Streamed live on Discord and Twitter Spaces. We had a deep dive regarding our Avalanche support, the deSwap API, answered various community questions, and more.

22 April 2022: Metis Fest at Amsterdam

Co-founder and CEO Alex Smirnov participated in the event about cross-chain interoperability together with AAVE, HerDAO and Zebu. Here’s the recording

GET INVOLVED

The deBridge team is rapidly expanding and we have now over 20+ team members onboard. We are looking for more great people to join us on our aim to develop a go-to generic messaging protocol and decentralized infrastructure that will securely and seamlessly connect blockchains, protocols, and applications.

Marketing Manager
Developer Relations Advocate
Ecosystem Integration Advocate
Senior Solidity Developer
Senior Angular Developer
JavaScript / TypeScript Software Engineer
Product and Visual Designer

Explore all our open roles here: debridge.finance/careers. Reach out to us if you want to join the team in a different role!

DEVELOPERS

Want to start building with deBridge today? Here are some examples of cross-chain contracts for developers.
You can also get started integrating with our deSwap API to enable cross-chain swaps in a matter of minutes. You can find more information here: https://debridge.finance/api
In the near future, a number of more tutorials on integrating and building on top of deBridge will be available. If you’re ready to get started right away, contact us on Telegram or Discord, or by email at [email protected]. If you have any questions or comments concerning the process, please contact us. We’re here to help you have the best integration experience possible

DEV UPDATES

Reworked the site header to make it unified across all deBridge subdomains
Removed dePort toggle and moved dePort to the header
Renamed “Execution fee” to “Included gas fee” to avoid confusion
Set minimum possible slippage that can be specified from UI to 0.3% in order to prevent reverted transactions due to low slippage
Duplicated “Claim” button on the transaction page, so users can better understand what they should do after a transfer

SOME HIGHLIGHTS

deBridge network

$33M+ Transaction volume

$100k+ fee generated for validators

66k+ transactions🌉

39k+ unique users

70+ assets bridged

6 chains supported (Many more to come soon)

For more analytics, check out the deBridge Dune dashboard👇

Stay updated and get involved
16k+ Twitter followers 👥

12k+ Discord members 👥

3500+ Telegram members 👥

9 international groups on Discord🌏

6 Community calls📺

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Various use cases for how deBridge enables cross-chain indexes, insurance, payments and staking. We will be featuring more cross-chain interoperability use cases on a weekly basis. The opportunities are endless!
An overview of deSwap API, building with deBridge and dePort.
Ecosystem highlights featuring Avalanche, BNB chain and the reason behind this integration of these chains.

With the success of hitting some great milestones during April, we’re excited to continue this momentum in May and the next months to come! Remember to follow our socials below to stay updated, try out deSwap to seamlessly go cross-chain, and get started building with deBridge! We’re just getting started🌉