Hyperlane is now live on Solana and Eclipse, expanding permissionless interoperability to the budding ecosystem of Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) chains. Importantly, Hyperlane will power the primary bridge to and from Eclipse, the first SVM chain outside Solana.
Key Takeaways:
- Hyperlane now supports SVM chains, starting with Solana and Eclipse. Upcoming SVM chains will be able to easily bring interoperability and fast token bridging to their chain.
- The first routes to Eclipse are live, enabling SOL, USDC, and WIF bridging to and from Eclipse. More assets to be added.
- 50+ Hyperlane-integrated chains and their apps will be connected to the expanding SVM ecosystem, opening up design space for cross-VM interchain applications.
Bridge to Eclipse today: usenexus.org
SVM Expansion is Here
Solana is one of the largest activity hubs in crypto now, surpassing Ethereum and its rollups in most measures of usage. Transaction speed is a huge reason for its growth, with the parallelized Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) one of the key components under the hood. Many projects have taken notice of the performance improvements and developer mindshare, adopting the SVM for their own chains and rollups, notably Eclipse. It’s setting up for a wave of SVM chains to hit the market in the coming months.
SVM Expansion.
Meet Eclipse
Eclipse is the first Ethereum SVM L2. The first chain to implement the SVM outside of Solana. As an Ethereum L2, Eclipse taps into Ethereum’s deep liquidity base ($40+ billion). And with the SVM as its execution environment instead of the EVM, Eclipse offers significantly faster transaction processing and higher transaction throughput. Their aim is to enable “turbo-charged” applications that take advantage of the newfound performance and liquidity to offer seamless user experiences.
What’s New?
Hyperlane deployments are live on both Eclipse and Solana.
The Eclipse routes are live on Hyperlane Nexus for transferring tokens to and from Eclipse. Here are the assets supported at launch:
- Solana SOL <> Eclipse
- Solana USDC <> Eclipse
- Ethereum USDC <> Eclipse
- And just for fun, Solana WIF <> Eclipse
*This is the first app on Eclipse, so the only activity for now is bridging in and out. Recommended mostly for developers to test out.
Scaling Cross-VM Interoperability
Ethereum has a completely different execution environment than Eclipse and Solana, so how is connecting all this possible?
Hyperlane is powerful in that it allows and encourages external developers to use, develop, and operate the network. As an interoperability network, scaling to new chains and VMs is an impossible task for any core development team, so making it easy and mutually beneficial for external teams to contribute is key.
Here, Eclipse core contributors helped adapt Hyperlane for the SVM for their own interoperability and bridging needs (huge shoutout!). Hyperlane enables experts in different ecosystems to focus on their domains. Eclipse and the SVM in this case. We’re already seeing this in action with Mitosis adapting Hyperlane for CosmWasm and Movement Labs for MoveVM. Compare this to incumbent bridging providers that require core team approval and development to expand to new chains.
With so many new altVMs and altVM chains coming to market over the next months and years, the only way to connect all of them is with Hyperlane’s permissionless and open-source approach.
Hyperlane Expansion.
What’s Next?
- More assets supported for the Eclipse bridge
- Adding support for permissionless expansion to all future SVM chains
- Cross VM interchain apps that can interact across the Hyperlane network of connected chains
What can I do now?
Test out the bridge to Eclipse: usenexus.org
Deploy a Hyperlane Warp Route for any Solana token: https://docs.hyperlane.xyz/docs/guides/deploy-svm-warp-route
More about Hyperlane
Hyperlane is the open interoperability framework. It empowers developers to connect anywhere onchain and build applications that can easily and securely communicate between multiple blockchains. Importantly, Hyperlane is fully open-source and always permissionless to build with.
