# Bridge **URL:** https://gov.near.org/c/dev/bridge/28.md [Latest](https://gov.near.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://gov.near.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://gov.near.org/tags.md) --- ## [About the Bridge category](https://gov.near.org/t/about-the-bridge-category/418)
**Author:** [@jlwaugh](https://gov.near.org/u/jlwaugh)\ **Replies:** 0
This category is for discussions about the Rainbow Bridge and interoperability. --- ## [Bringing IBC to NEAR using ZK-SNARKS (no NEP required)](https://gov.near.org/t/bringing-ibc-to-near-using-zk-snarks-no-nep-required/25605)
**Author:** [@garvitgoel](https://gov.near.org/u/garvitgoel)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 6, 2022, 7:17am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/bringing-ibc-to-near-using-zk-snarks-no-nep-required/25605 "2022-09-06T07:17:48Z")
Prepared by Electron Labs This is in response to the proposal submitted by @sitoula on Near gov under the title “NEAR \<\> Polkadot using IBC Trustless bridging: Requests” As pointed out by sitoula, bringing IBC to NEAR… --- ## [NEAR \<\> Polkadot using IBC Trustless bridging: Requests](https://gov.near.org/t/near-polkadot-using-ibc-trustless-bridging-requests/22807)
**Author:** [@sitoula](https://gov.near.org/u/sitoula)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2022, 8:40am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/near-polkadot-using-ibc-trustless-bridging-requests/22807 "2022-06-21T08:40:42Z")
NEAR \<\> Polkadot using IBC Trustless bridging: Requests 1. Pre-compiles/Host functions for signature verification Introduction In order to deploy a light client that’s able to verify the state of a chain within another … --- ## [\[Discussion\] Bring on the Dragon Bridge](https://gov.near.org/t/discussion-bring-on-the-dragon-bridge/1375)
**Author:** [@satojandro](https://gov.near.org/u/satojandro)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2022, 11:17am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/discussion-bring-on-the-dragon-bridge/1375 "2022-03-23T11:17:11Z")
TL;DR Near should seriously consider deploying a bridge to Binance Smart Chain (BSC) - the Dragon Bridge - as soon as the Rainbow Bridge testing and rollout are complete. Low-hanging fruit (EVM), keeping up with rapidly… --- ## [Rainbow Upgrade Idea: Using zk-SNARKS to cheaply verify ED25519 signatures on Ethereum mainnet](https://gov.near.org/t/rainbow-upgrade-idea-using-zk-snarks-to-cheaply-verify-ed25519-signatures-on-ethereum-mainnet/7089)
**Author:** [@garvitgoel](https://gov.near.org/u/garvitgoel)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 2, 2021, 8:46pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/rainbow-upgrade-idea-using-zk-snarks-to-cheaply-verify-ed25519-signatures-on-ethereum-mainnet/7089 "2021-11-02T20:46:11Z")
\*\*\*This article assumes a basic understanding of how the NEAR Rainbow bridge works. Please see - ETH-NEAR Rainbow Bridge - NEAR Protocol The NEAR Rainbow bridge has a problem, transactions from NEAR to Ethreum are slow,… --- ## [Bridge upgradability and governance plan](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-upgradability-and-governance-plan/633)
**Author:** [@alex.shevchenko](https://gov.near.org/u/alex.shevchenko)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 1, 2021, 11:10am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-upgradability-and-governance-plan/633 "2021-10-01T11:10:36Z")
One important aspect of any smart contract (especially ones that hold / operate large amounts of tokens) is the upgradability process and its governance. This process defines the rules who and according to what procedure… --- ## [Bridge Working Group Update \[2021-03-19\]](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-working-group-update-2021-03-19/968)
**Author:** [@alex.shevchenko](https://gov.near.org/u/alex.shevchenko)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 11:56pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-working-group-update-2021-03-19/968 "2021-04-19T23:56:38Z")
The weekly Friday update from the Bridge Working Group: This week, bridge team has lots of updates: We’ve released bridge in the mainnet. CLi guide can be used to access the smart contracts on the low level We’ve rele… --- ## [Bridge Working Group Update \[2021-04-16\]](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-working-group-update-2021-04-16/1308)
**Author:** [@alex.shevchenko](https://gov.near.org/u/alex.shevchenko)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 16, 2021, 7:04pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-working-group-update-2021-04-16/1308 "2021-04-16T19:04:24Z")
The weekly Friday update from the Bridge Working Group: This week, bridge team was focusing on multiple efforts. First was solving the proof verification bug, the solution to which was merged and already deployed to th… --- ## [Bridge Working Group Update \[2021-04-09\]](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-working-group-update-2021-04-09/1235)
**Author:** [@alex.shevchenko](https://gov.near.org/u/alex.shevchenko)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2021, 7:58am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-working-group-update-2021-04-09/1235 "2021-04-12T07:58:29Z")
The weekly Friday update from the Bridge Working Group: We decided not to do a public call, since we were heavily discussing the OKRs for Q2. Finalised version of the OKRs will be shared on 16th of April. This week, we… --- ## [Bridge Working Group Update \[2021-04-02\]](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-working-group-update-2021-04-02/1127)
**Author:** [@alex.shevchenko](https://gov.near.org/u/alex.shevchenko)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2021, 12:20am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-working-group-update-2021-04-02/1127 "2021-04-03T00:20:29Z")
The weekly Friday update from the Bridge Working Group: This week, bridge team was working on fixing multiple bugs (ethash, NearToEth relayer notifications and others). Also we were polishing the FE, working on eth-conn… --- ## [Bridge Working Group Update \[2021-03-12\]](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-working-group-update-2021-03-12/917)
**Author:** [@alex.shevchenko](https://gov.near.org/u/alex.shevchenko)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2021, 12:04am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-working-group-update-2021-03-12/917 "2021-03-13T00:04:50Z")
The weekly Friday update from the Bridge Working Group: This week, we worked on merging the NEP-141 standard PR, fixing multiple issues in preparation for the release Next week, we are planning to release the bridge to… --- ## [Bridge Working Group Update \[2021-03-05\]](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-working-group-update-2021-03-05/850)
**Author:** [@alex.shevchenko](https://gov.near.org/u/alex.shevchenko)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 5, 2021, 11:34pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-working-group-update-2021-03-05/850 "2021-03-05T23:34:59Z")
The weekly Friday update from the Bridge Working Group: This week, we worked on fixing the minor issues, preparing to the release and integrating the NEP-141 standard in the token connector. We still didn’t merge the CL… --- ## [Bridge Working Group Update \[2021-02-26\]](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-working-group-update-2021-02-26/782)
**Author:** [@alex.shevchenko](https://gov.near.org/u/alex.shevchenko)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2021, 9:58pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-working-group-update-2021-02-26/782 "2021-02-26T21:58:12Z")
The weekly Friday update from the Bridge Working Group: This week, we worked on a bunch of upgradability & testing related topics (eth-connector, token-connector), fixed some bugs in the FE (#113, #102), refactored FE c… --- ## [Bridge Working Group Update \[2021-02-19\]](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-working-group-update-2021-02-19/695)
**Author:** [@alex.shevchenko](https://gov.near.org/u/alex.shevchenko)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 20, 2021, 12:27am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-working-group-update-2021-02-19/695 "2021-02-20T00:27:18Z")
The weekly Friday update from the Bridge Working Group: This week, we finalised the work on step-by-step CLI guide, released upgradability and governance plan, enhanced FE with more user-friendly transfer amounts, merge… --- ## [Bridge Working Group Update \[2021-01-29\] (Roadmap Q1)](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-working-group-update-2021-01-29-roadmap-q1/527)
**Author:** [@alex.shevchenko](https://gov.near.org/u/alex.shevchenko)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2021, 5:17pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-working-group-update-2021-01-29-roadmap-q1/527 "2021-01-29T17:17:57Z")
The weekly Friday update from the Bridge Working Group: This week, we were working on fixing the existing deployments, creating the roadmap for Q1 and participating in multiple discussions, including the realistic bridg… --- ## [Bridge Working Group Update \[2021-02-12\]](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-working-group-update-2021-02-12/630)
**Author:** [@alex.shevchenko](https://gov.near.org/u/alex.shevchenko)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2021, 5:04pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-working-group-update-2021-02-12/630 "2021-02-12T17:04:32Z")
The weekly Friday update from the Bridge Working Group: This week, we delivered step-by-step CLI guide and frontend with working transfers to NEAR and back. We also solved a bug with Ropsten deployment, were working on #… --- ## [Bridge step-by-step guide](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-step-by-step-guide/592)
**Author:** [@alex.shevchenko](https://gov.near.org/u/alex.shevchenko)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2021, 11:38pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-step-by-step-guide/592 "2021-02-08T23:38:52Z")
We’ve created the step-by-step guide for the Rainbow Bridge + ERC20-NEP21 connector. The guide demonstrates how to make use of the rainbow bridge from the CLI using ethers.js and near-api-js. This guide will be helpf… --- ## [Bridge frontend monitoring](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-frontend-monitoring/571)
**Author:** [@mhala](https://gov.near.org/u/mhala)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 7:10pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-frontend-monitoring/571 "2021-02-05T19:10:43Z")
For sake of improving user experience of bridge we would need enable automated alerts for bridge frontend which require setup of appropriate monitoring. There two main approaches which make sense for me at the moment. … --- ## [Bridge Working Group Update \[2021-02-05\]](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-working-group-update-2021-02-05/575)
**Author:** [@alex.shevchenko](https://gov.near.org/u/alex.shevchenko)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 6:49pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-working-group-update-2021-02-05/575 "2021-02-05T18:49:54Z")
The weekly Friday update from the Bridge Working Group: This week, we have fixed Ropsten and Rinkeby deployments, introduced monitoring dashboard, fixed issues (#475, FE#80), were cleaning the issues in the repos, guide… --- ## [Bridge Weekly update 2020-01-22](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-weekly-update-2020-01-22/446)
**Author:** [@alex.shevchenko](https://gov.near.org/u/alex.shevchenko)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 22, 2021, 10:42pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-weekly-update-2020-01-22/446 "2021-01-22T22:42:31Z")
The update is also available here. Video The video of the call is available here. Status, current goal Planned items: Implementation of monitoring Roadmap Clearing up the current deployments Hiring Done: Implementat…