Gravity Bridge

Cosmos® Gravity Bridge™ is a purpose-built, fully decentralized, trustless blockchain which bridges assets between the Ethereum and Cosmos ecosystems. Ethereum and EVM compatible tokens can be transferred across the Gravity Bridge to a Cosmos wallet and then onto other Cosmos wallets or DEXs (such as Osmosis or Gravity DEX). Cosmos SDK based blockchains can similarly send tokens across Gravity Bridge to the Ethereum ecosystem, making them available for transfer or potentially trading on Uniswap or other ETH DEXs.

Using the full validator set of the Gravity Bridge blockchain to send and relay transactions makes Gravity Bridge arguably the world's most decentralized bridge, unlike other blockchain bridges which utilize centralized multi-sigs or a private group of nodes and signers.

Any Cosmos-based blockchain can use IBC (Inter-Blockchain Communication) to connect to Gravity and transfer assets from Ethereum and EVM based chains. Similarly, any front-end providers can build a custom solution and enable end-users to send Ethereum and Ethereum based stable coins to Cosmos.

On Monday, December 13th, we launched mainnet Gravity Bridge with over 100 validators. The Gravity Bridge has always been a decentralized project and launched in the same way. .Instead of a centralized event run by only a handful of insider validators, Gravity used a decentralized start process that empowered validators to join in asynchronously.

Over the coming weeks, we expect many different front ends, DEX integrations and Cosmos blockchains to integrate with the Gravity Bridge. Cosmos® Gravity Bridge™ is neutral infrastructure that supports other Cosmos blockchains, DEXs and DeFi applications in the Ecosystem.

Gravity Bridge has been engineered with security in mind. The code has been in running test nets with a decentralized validator set for over a year and three audits were conducted - Code4Arena crowd sourced audit, Informal and Least Authority.

Some of the bootstrapping team are working on ergonomics for front end and project integration, including the transparent IBC forwarder in an update called “Polaris”.

The Althea team (one of the contributors to Gravity Bridge) is also working closely with the Interchain Foundation to support Gravity Bridge renting security from the Cosmos Hub, allowing us to improve the security of the Gravity Bridge with the value of the Cosmos Hub’s staked tokens.

The community may propose these updates as well as any allocation out of the community pool. Gravity Bridge is governed by its community in support of the growth of the Cosmos Internet of Blockchains and the users of the next generation of DeFi.

*COSMOS is the registered trademark of the Interchain Foundation, and is being used by permission. GRAVITY BRIDGE is the trademark of Gravity Bridge.