Introducing Fractal's Bridging Options: Empowering Asset Transfers on Fractal
As the Fractal mainnet continues to gain momentum, we’re excited to introduce an essential component of the ecosystem: Fractal's bridging solutions. These bridges allow seamless transfer of assets between Fractal and other blockchain networks, enabling developers and users to move value efficiently, securely, and with minimal friction.
Bridging the Gap: Why Bridges Matter for Fractal
As a native Bitcoin scaling solution, Fractal was designed to scale Bitcoin’s processing capacity infinitely, without sacrificing security or decentralization. To enable more utilities such as decentralized finance (DeFi), gaming, and other blockchain applications, robust bridges play a key role in expanding the capabilities of Fractal.
Bridges allow users to transfer assets such as Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies between Fractal and various blockchain platforms, making it easier for projects to leverage Bitcoin’s security while utilizing the flexibility and speed of Fractal.
With Fractal's fast block confirmation times and scalable infrastructure, users can execute transactions and engage with applications on a fast and low-fee environment, enjoying an optimized user experience.
Two New Bridges Launch on Fractal
Simple Bridge
One of Fractal’s core infrastructure is Simple Bridge, powered by UniSat. Simple Bridge provides bridging for assets such as sBTC, sORDI, sSATS, sQUAQ, sOSHI, sPEPE, sTRAC, sMEME, sRATS, and sPIZZA.
Simple Bridge is specifically designed to enhance the security and efficiency of cross-chain asset transfers. Its technology integrates the latest cryptographic algorithms, bringing unprecedented innovation to the blockchain ecosystem.
Here are the key features that enable Simple Bridge to be secure and efficient:
Multi-Signature Anonymous Nodes: Simple Bridge employs advanced multi-signature technology by deploying multiple anonymous nodes, ensuring that transactions are signed randomly among these nodes. This design not only increases transaction security but also enhances the system's resilience against attacks.
Unbreakable Encrypted Transmission: Our message transmission mechanism utilizes the latest encryption techniques, ensuring that all transaction information is encrypted during transmission. This means that even if data is intercepted, it cannot be decrypted, guaranteeing the security of the users’ assets.
Distributed Service Architecture: The service architecture of Simple Bridge is designed to be distributed, exposing only necessary nodes and minimizing potential security risks. This design makes the system more robust while improving overall operational efficiency.
Bool Bridge
The other available bridge solution is Bool Bridge, powered by the Bool Network. Bool Bridge provides bridging for assets like bBTC, bORDI, and bSATS.
Bool Bridge brings decentralized off-chain validation solution to the Fractal ecosystem. The technology is driven by DHC (Dynamic Hidden Committee), a cutting-edge system that integrates Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP), Ring-VRF (Verifiable Random Function), MPC (Multi-Party Computation), and Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) to create a fully decentralized validation mechanism. The system randomly selects a committee of members from a large, permissionless group of validators to verify transactions. These committee members are kept anonymous, and their roles rotate periodically, ensuring that both external attacks and internal collusion are virtually impossible.
Here’s how Bool Bridge enhances Fractal’s capabilities:
Trustless and Secure Transfers: With Bool Bridge, Fractal users can transfer between Bitcoin and Fractal in a decentralized manner.
Scalable and Efficient: Bool Bridge enables users to execute high-volume transactions across multiple chains, leveraging Fractal’s fast and scalable infrastructure for smooth cross-chain interactions.
Expanding DeFi on Bitcoin: With Bool Bridge, Fractal unlocks new DeFi opportunities for Bitcoin, allowing users to put their BTC to work across decentralized protocols without compromising security or decentralization.
The prefixes to the bridged assets, such as “s-” and “b-”, indicate the specific bridge being used to carry the given assets. This makes it easy to identify which bridge is handling the asset, providing users clarity and flexibility in their bridge choices.
Next for Fractal Bridging Solutions
With two bridging solutions now live on Fractal, it is opening new doors for seamless and secure transfer of assets to and from both Bitcoin and Fractal.
By making it easier to move assets between platforms, Fractal not only keeps transactions fast and cheap but also creates opportunities for users to explore new blockchain applications. Whether you're into DeFi, gaming, or using Bitcoin more efficiently, bridges can help you unlock these possibilities.
Fractal believes that different applications can choose different bridging solutions, depending on their user base and requirements. Fractal’s flexible approach to bridging ensures that developers and users have the freedom to adopt the solution that best fits their specific needs.
Why Does Fractal Stand Out?
Fractal confirms transactions faster and handles more at once compared to Bitcoin’s base layer. This makes it perfect for anyone looking for a quicker, more cost-effective way to transact. Now with bridges, it becomes even more powerful—opening doors to new applications and services that rely on faster block times and lower fees.
Stay tuned for more exciting developments as Fractal continues to expand its bridging options and empower users to build and transact on Bitcoin in a decentralized and scalable way.
About Fractal
Fractal Bitcoin is the only Bitcoin scaling solution that uses the Bitcoin Core code itself to recursively scale unlimited layers on top of the world’s most-secure and -held blockchain.
It enables infinite scalability and seamless integration with Bitcoin, allowing it to support internet-scale applications while maintaining high consistency with Bitcoin's core principles.
Fractal Bitcoin is seen as the “innovation playground” for Bitcoin, as it enables developers to flexibly try deployments with OP_CAT enabled, and provides a set of robust APIs and tooling to get started quickly.
Who we are
Fractal is a contributor-led team, with UniSat and BlockSpaceForce being the main contributors since its inception. The team has extensive experience in Bitcoin development over the past 2 years, and supports hundreds of teams with robust API services. The Fractal core contributor team also possesses extensive operational experience, with team members who have built, operated, and exited world-class companies such as Coinbase, CoinMarketCap, Cobo, VeChain, and more, across multiple capacities.
