Bridges

4 articles tagged Bridges.

Articles

Blockchain

A bridge is extra software, not a tunnel

A cross-chain bridge is a contract — or a committee — that watches one notebook and writes on another. Useful. Historically accident-prone. Here is the product map without a ranking of remaining holes.EasyCryptoGuides · 13 May 2026 · 5 min read

Security

The Ronin hack was a bridge with too few keys, not Ethereum failing

Sky Mavis’s sidechain bridge did what a 5-of-9 scheme does when five keys are in the wrong hands. Ethereum mainnet kept producing blocks. The game’s on-ramp did not.EasyCryptoGuides · 23 Mar 2022, 18:00 UTC · 1 min read

Security

Wormhole was a bridge bug. Jump put the ETH back.

A signature-check failure on the Solana side of a cross-chain bridge printed IOUs that were not matched by ether on Ethereum. Users of the wrapped token got made whole by a company, not by maths.EasyCryptoGuides · 2 Feb 2022, 18:00 UTC · 1 min read

Security

Poly Network’s $610m hole was a bridge bug. The chains kept running.

A little-known interoperability protocol lost on the order of $610 million, then spent two weeks getting it returned. Ethereum did not halt. A keeper path did.EasyCryptoGuides · 10 Aug 2021, 16:00 UTC · 1 min read