deBridge Finds Bundlr, Arweave As ‘Ideal Solution’ To Challenges IPFS Could Not Solve

deBridge Protocol, a cross-chain platform that operates in the DeFi space has integrated Bundlr to enable signature storage on Arweave, a decision the Protocol took following the deficiencies it encountered while using Interplanetary File System (IPFS).

deBridge does off-chain validation to go around the bottlenecks of on-chain message and transaction broadcast. A big part of its validation mechanism involves validators cryptographically signing messages and transactions which are saved to a data availability layer where they can be easily accessed to deliver messages across chains.

We initially used IPFS for this, but it fell short in terms of throughput, speed of data distribution, and storage permanency, deBridge said in a post about its need for an efficient and decentralised data availability layer and “our search for an ideal solution led us to Bundlr, which proved to be a perfect fit for our high performance infrastructure.”

Amelia Guertin, the chief operations officer of Bundlr described deBridge’s announcement as “incredible user story” while Connor King who is in charge of Business Development at Bundlr described his firm’s offering as a ‘'game changer”.

High performance interoperability. This integration is huge and shows the true power of composability between infrastructure, Alex Smirnov co-founder of deBridge and DLN said.

Indeed, Bundlr is not new to processing huge numbers of transactions. Early this year, Bundlr demonstrated that it could handle 50,000 transactions per second. Last year, Bundlr was said to process more than 90 percent of uploads to Arweave. This made some players in the ecosystem to attribute the feat of scaling Arweave to Bundlr.

Bundlr’s ability to make uploads to Arweave fast, serving as a data layer, as well as being able to process huge numbers of transactions is getting noticed. In May, Lens Protocol leveraged on Bundlr to make Arweave the data layer for Momoka.

The integration with Bundlr allows validators’ signatures to be stored in Arweave’s decentralised system which makes it easily accessible to deliver messages to the destination chain regardless of the performance or uptime of other services.

Signature propagation is now fully decentralised, in line with our commitment to maintaining decentralised infrastructure, deBridge stated.