Polytope Labs Blog

Hyperproofs are succinct, crypto-economic and cheaply verifiable aggregated proofs produced by the Hyperbridge network for facilitating interoperability between multiple state machines concurrently.

Unlike decentralization, bridge security isn't a spectrum; it's either secure or it isn't. Good engineering design includes preparing for all possibilities. A well-designed system should handle all invariants, but this basic engineering requirement is impossible to meet with trusted bridges. This is due to the main invariant being part of the protocol's design, making it impossible to pre-program the protocol to respond to a malicious takeover of its trusted authority set.

Today we take a step closer towards cryptographically secure interoperability. We’re unveiling Gargantua v2 our mainnet release candidate for Hyperbridge. Gargantua v2 brings support for zk proofs of consensus, permissionless relayers and support for the Binance smart chain network.

We’re excited to share that we’ve launched our Polkadot crowdloan for the Hyperbridge Parachain (codename: Nexus) with the ParaId 3367.

While we continue to wrap up the changes for Gargantua V2, We’d like to announce an exciting opportunity for our community members to be a part of the Hyperbridge network by running permissionless relayers. Hyperbridge will be the first fully trust-free cross-chain bridge to offer this feature and allow it’s community to be compensated by relaying requests & proofs of these requests to the appropriate chains.

Hyperbridge introduced a new class of coprocessors that are secured by crypto-economic security. In this article I formalise this novel architecture and some of its potential applications.

We’re excited to share the culmination of our research & development into the blockchain interoperability problem. We introduce Hyperbridge an interoperability coprocessor capable of scaling cryptographically secure, consensus & state proof-based interoperability to all blockchains.

In this article, we explore how Polytope Labs tests solidity smart contracts in Rust using Foundry.

In this article we explore The Interoperable State Machine Protocol (ISMP) and the value it unlocks for blockchain interoperability and the polkadot ecosystem.