Building Bridges, Not Walled Gardens

My team and I have created a gas-efficient interoperability standard for cross-chain Communication. Unlike other bridge designs, Optics has a one-to-many relationship — meaning that on each chain, a single message-sending mechanism is used to communicate with all other chains. This enables chains to enter a rich ecosystem of communication between blockchains. It also means that adding additional chains is easy. Additionally, Optics is designed to minimize gas costs to the users of the system. It is trustless and non-custodial, making it a powerful tool for developers to build decentralized cross-chain applications or xapps (zaps) as some have started to fondly call them. https://github.com/celo-org/optics-monorepo