DeFi
Which bridge is the cheapest? Founders of Across Protocol and LayerZero Labs Clash
A dispute has arisen over which bridge has the cheapest transaction fees in DeFi, with Hart Lambur, co-founder of interoperability protocol Across, calling the situation “Bridge Wars.”
Across Protocol and Stargate Finance are two key players in the interoperability ecosystem.
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Posted May 31, 2024 at 6:40 PM EST.
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On Wednesday, the Stargate Finance cross-chain bridging solution built by LayerZero Labs deployed its second iteration and called itself on social media platform X “the cheapest bridge in DeFi”. The protesters were Evan Drake, chief of staff for marketing at Across’ Lambur and Chainlink Labs.
Duck said on the same day as the Stargate V2 rollout, “The ‘Cheapest Bridge’ Claim Makes Me Laugh,” who then took the opportunity to highlight Chainlink’s bridging app, Transporter.
Lambur ran a simple test on Wednesday by linking 0.1 ETH from Arbitrum to Optimism using different bridges and found that Across was both cheaper and faster compared to Stargate’s recently launched v2. Lambur later responded to Stargate by saying“Let’s abandon false marketing. »
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Bryan Pellegrino, the co-founder of LayerZero Labs, specifically objected to Lambur’s claims, saying that Lambur’s test was “this one chosen path” that is “simply wrong.” Pellegrino ran a similar test several times and noted that Stargate had cheaper transaction fees, from Arbitrum to Optimism.
The disagreement continued into Friday, with Chris Burniske of Placeholder Capital quote Lambur tweeting, saying“The data doesn’t lie: @AcrossProtocol is systematically cheaper and faster than @StargateFinance, despite marketing that will try to convince you otherwise. Lambur and Pellegrino also continued to struggle in the face of other research and analysis conducted by Lambur, who remained consistent in asserting that Across is the cheapest bridge between different Layer 2 networks.
Mark Murdock, senior researcher at LayerZero Labs, countered by saying that transactions shared by Lambur showed that Stargate had cheaper transaction fees than Across. “You [Lambur] framed the entire thread with “for the average L2-to-L2 transfer, AcrossProtocol is clearly the fastest and cheapest bridge.” You then showed 3 deals, of which Stargate was the cheapest in 2 of them, “Murdock wrote.
Break it down further Lambur’s shared transactions For bridging fees between Layer 2 networks, Unchained found that Across had cheaper repos, while Stargate had cheaper fills.
The debate was over fractions of cents, as Across’s deposits were only $0.000534 compared to Stargate’s $0.001558 and $0.000630, while Across’s deposits were as high as $0.001492 and those of Stargate were a little less: $0.001198 and $0.001472.
