Solana is fast. Its secret to speedy execution is Sealevel — the engine inside of the Solana Virtual Machine that allows transactions to be processed in parallel. Sealevel & the SVM have enabled Solana to scale to thousands of transactions per second.
And it’s expanding beyond Solana now.
The SVM Expansion Moment
With the launch of Eclipse, a SVM rollup settling on Ethereum, we are entering a new era where SVM is growing beyond Solana’s main chain.
Yet, similar to the rollup expansion on Ethereum, the scalability and customization benefits also come with interoperability costs. A new SVM rollup has a “cold start” problem — there are no assets yet on the chain.
So how can we easily bring in assets onchain to spark growth?
Supporting Eclipse’s Launch on Day 1
Hyperlane offers permissionless expansion of the messaging network — anyone can deploy a Mailbox and core contracts on any chain, connecting to the rest of the network. This permissionless approach has helped grow the number of connected chains to over 60.
And because Hyperlane is an open source framework, it enables any team to adapt it for new VMs. Here, Eclipse core contributors adapted Hyperlane for the SVM for their own interoperability and bridging needs.
Warp Routes for Cross-VM Bridging
Warp Routes are a lock & mint token bridging application built on the Hyperlane general messaging layer. What makes Warp Routes unique is the breadth of both token types and VMs it supports.
This was critical for Eclipse to expand its reach. It leverages SVM for execution but settles on EVM, having a foot in both ecosystems. Eclipse needed to connect assets originating in both environments.
Warp Routes and the Hyperlane protocol have been adapted across many VMs, allowing Eclipse to have broad onchain reach. Stride, a Cosmos defi appchain connected to Hyperlane has announced work to bring TIA and stTIA to Eclipse. Additionally, Hyperlane’s upcoming expansion to Fuel, Starknet, Move and more will expand Eclipse’s interchain universe.
Fast Bridging of Native Assets
Warp Routes unlocked fast bridging of Solana’s native gas token SOL to Eclipse. In a test run today, bridging occurred in just 25 seconds.
User-Friendly Stablecoin Deposits
Beyond native gas tokens, a key pillar of establishing a defi ecosystem on Eclipse is stablecoins. USDC in particular is natively issued across 9 chains in Circle’s CCTP network.
Here Hyperlane core contributors deployed Warp Routes, allowing Eclipse to tap into bridging USDC from two of those networks Ethereum & Solana.
But it went one step further to create a user-friendly experience — enabling Eclipse bridge users to seamlessly bridge USDC in and out either Ethereum or Solana. This means a user can bridge into Eclipse via Ethereum, but can withdraw out of Eclipse to Solana instead. This is an advanced lock & mint pattern unique to Warp Routes, called a multi-collateral warp route, with Abacus Works maintaining rebalancing of USDC collateral between Ethereum & Solana.
More flexibility for users, more liquidity for Eclipse.
LRTs & Asset Issuer Coverage
Eclipse also attracts novel defi assets. It’s utilizing Warp Routes to bridge in Nucleus’s tETH Unified Restaking Token (URT) which combines the largest yield-generating protocols on Ethereum into one restaking token. tETH is now a building block of yield generation on Eclipse.
Emerging Assets & Permissionless Bridging
Beyond restaking coins, emerging assets like memecoins are essential to a new chain’s growth. To catalyze its ecosystem, Eclipse wrapped WIF on Solana as a Warp Token and minted a Warp Synthetic on Eclipse.
Hyperlane’s Warp Routes are permissionless — anyone can deploy a token bridge between chains connected with Hyperlane on EVM or SVM — and the network itself is permissionless to add a chain to. This allows Eclipse and its developer ecosystem to be a first mover for defi: continually absorbing new assets, or even originating Eclipse-native assets and have it be instantly distributed all across chains supported by Hyperlane.
Unified UI
Warp Routes, across EVM, Cosmos and Solana have first class support in the Hyperlane SDK and Warp UI template. This allows Eclipse, as well as any devs who launch their own token bridges to Eclipse, to have out of the box support for a bridging UI.
Eclipse routes are currently available in the flagship Hyperlane UI: usenexus.org
- USDC from Ethereum & Solana to Eclipse
- Nucleus tETH from Ethereum to Eclipse
- SOL from Solana to Eclipse
- WIF from Solana to Eclipse
Get In Touch
While Hyperlane enables setting up a Warp Route in two CLI commands on EVM, SVM to SVM Warp Routes (i.e. Solana to Eclipse) in the CLI are a bit more complex, and EVM to SVM in the CLI is not live — only via contract deployment from the monorepo. That said, an ecosystem of builders is working towards an improved developer experience as well as white glove service for major protocols.
Interested in bringing Solana assets from EVM to Solana or Eclipse? Get in touch.
Need developer help? Reach out over #developers in the Hyperlane Discord.
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.
