Umbria’s Cross-Chain Narni Bridge is Now Live
The fastest and cheapest bridge from #Ethereum to #PolygonNetwork
Happy Friday!
This week has been exciting for Umbria Team: its highly anticipated Narni ‘Insta’ Bridge has been made available to the public on Monday.
Users of the bridge — bridge.umbria.network — can transfer $UMBR (Umbria’s governance token) between the Ethereum Mainnet and Matic Mainnet quickly, easily and cheaply. Imminently the bridge’s functionality will extend to see it compatible with a universe of other assets and integrating with a host of different blockchains.
“We’re delighted to bring a game-changing product to the DeFi community and are looking forward to developing Narni into a main hub for cross-chain transactions. We believe Narni will be a gateway for introducing a large audience to the Umbria ecosystem.” Barney Chambers, Co-lead developer of Umbria.
Pool and Earn
In addition to asset transfers between networks, users can now ‘pool and earn’ — that is provide liquidity to the bridge — to receive fees (bridge.umbria.network/pool). Whenever someone bridges assets between two cryptocurrency networks using the Umbria Narni Bridge, the liquidity providers receive a share of a 0.2% fee. Liquidity providers can provide a single asset to the bridge and earn interest in the native asset they supplied. This facility is currently available for UMBR on both the Ethereum and Polygon networks and will quickly be extended to other assets. Stablecoin farmers should find this function particularly profitable. Stablecoins are likely to be the assets most frequently bridged due to their common use in arbitrage and trading and are therefore expected to accrue higher fee generation for the liquidity providers. Unlike in traditional liquidity provision and farming, stablecoins offer a high yield.
“The bridge launch went very smoothly and we are extremely excited to launch USDT within the next month. This is just the first step to unifying all blockchains and facilitating a new era of interoperability between cryptocurrency networks.” Oscar Chambers, Co-lead developer of Umbria.
It is easier to connect to Umbria now
We have also launched our Connect Portal, which enables anyone to very quickly and easily connect their Metamask wallet to any EVM compatible chain. By using the connect portal, users can configure their wallet to interact with their assets on the desired network at the click of a button instead of having to manually configure RPC connections.
Umbria Network: a Defi Innovation
Please check out our website where you can find all services and applications we offer to put your cryptocurrencies to work.
Docs/Info Repo
We have created a Umbria documentation section where you can find all information about the bridge, DEX and farm: bridge.umbria.network/docs
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