deBridge: Building DeFi's Internet of Liquidity by Shifting the Cross-Chain Paradigm from Bridging to Networking

Abstract

deBridge is DeFi's internet of liquidity, enabling real-time movement of assets and information across the DeFi landscape.

From a structural perspective, the deBridge protocol consists of two key layers: the protocol layer and the infrastructure layer.

By shifting the cross-chain paradigm from bridging to networking, deBridge enables myriad unique features for applications and users.

deBridge's native token is DBR, with an initial circulating supply of 1.8 billion tokens and a total supply of 10 billion.

What Is deBridge

deBridge is DeFi's internet of liquidity, enabling real-time movement of assets and information across the DeFi landscape. Without the bottlenecks and risks of liquidity pools, deBridge can power all types of cross-chain interactions with deep liquidity, tight spreads, and guaranteed rates. As a generic messaging protocol and a cross-chain interoperability infrastructure, deBridge can be used to build any arbitrary cross-chain applications (deApps), unlocking limitless possibilities for creating complex cross-chain interactions.

The Technical Principles and Product Advantages of deBridge

deBridge Liquidity Network (DLN) employs a 0-TVL cross-chain trading infrastructure to faciliate high-performance cross-chain exchanges. Instead of using liquidity pools, the DLN executes all trades asynchronously through a self-organized liquidity network, empowering developers and projects to access the fastest cross-chain experience available. This infrastructure offers faster liquidity and information transfer with quicker finality times compared to any legacy cross-chain solution.

From a structural perspective, the deBridge protocol consists of two key layers: the protocol layer and the infrastructure layer. The protocol layer is a set of on-chain smart contracts used for asset management, routing of cross-chain transactions, cross-validation of validators' signatures, and reaching consensus among validators as the transaction is treated as valid only if the minimum required threshold of validators' signatures is achieved. The governance manages the parameters of the smart contracts, such as fees, supported chains, the whitelist of elected validators, validators payout ratio, and more. The infrastructure layer is comprised of off-chain validation nodes operated by validators selected via deBridge governance. Each validator operates a deBridge node that is responsible for verifying transactions across all public chains supported by the deBridge protocol.

By shifting the cross-chain paradigm from bridging to networking, deBridge enables myriad unique features for applications and users, including near-instant settlement, limit orders for any cross-chain trade, zero slippage on any order size, unlimited market depth, guaranteed rates and low fees, native token trading (no custodial risks of wrapped assets), zero locked liquidity at risk (0-TVL), rapidly scalable (can process any trading volume), gasless limit orders (users can commit orders without any upfront costs — tokens are deducted only if execution is guaranteed on the destination chain), and order + call data allows adding instructions to be executed together alongside order fulfillment.

deBridge Tokenomics

deBridge's native token is DBR, with an initial circulating supply of 1.8 billion tokens and a total supply of 10 billion. The token distribution is as follows: 15% for the deBridge Foundation, 25% for the ecosystem, 20% for core contributors, 20% for the community, 17% for strategic partners, and 2% for validators. All airdrop recipients have the option to claim 50% of their tokens at the Token Generation Event (TGE) and unlock the remaining 50% after six months. Alternatively, they can choose to take 80% at the TGE, but this option comes with a 20% penalty.

deBridge's upcoming objectives are as follows: Supporting more blockchain networks and enhancing cross-chain interoperability. Introducing a P2P feature on the DLN, which will enable more customized transactions. Developing a gasless transaction feature aimed at significantly reducing user transaction costs. Expanding custodial services to support asset transfers across different chains through dePort's custodial solutions, with a focus on enabling native BTC trading on various chains.