Unveiling the long awaited Light Bridge on Boba Network!

Boba Network
2 min readApr 3, 2024

TL;DR: The Light Bridge is an easy, fast, and cheap bridging solution that quickly gets your funds to your destination chain.

After careful consideration, the Light Bridge was developed as a Boba Network feature to improve upon user experience and interface. A centralized version that offers users an alternative method to bridge funds, bypassing the challenge period of 7 days, leaving L2, and bringing cost efficiency to the user.

Users will be able to bridge between L2s and Boba L2s and Layer 1s with the following routes available:

$BOBA Token

  • BOBA BNB Mainnet ↔ BNB Mainnet
  • BOBA BNB Mainnet ↔ BOBA ETH Mainnet
  • ETH Mainnet ↔ BOBA ETH Mainnet
  • BOBA ETH Mainnet ↔ BNB Mainnet

$BNB

  • BOBA BNB Mainnet ↔ BNB Mainnet

$ETH

  • Arbitrum Mainnet → BOBA ETH Mainnet
  • Optimism Mainnet → BOBA ETH Mainnet
  • ETH Mainnet ↔ BOBA ETH Mainnet

Certain limit caps are coded in the smart contracts for bridge functionality:

ETH/BNB

  • Minimum Amount to be bridged: 0.01 ETH | BNB
  • Maximum Amount to be bridged: 2 ETH | BNB
  • Max Daily Amount (overall, not user dependent): 6 ETH | BNB

BOBA

  • Minimum Amount to be bridged: 20 $BOBA
  • Maximum Amount to be bridged: 20,000 $BOBA
  • Max Daily Amount (overall, not user dependent): 40,000 $BOBA

How — To Guide:

  1. Connect your wallet.
  2. Click on the “Light” button to use the Light Bridge.
  1. Choose your origin chain and destination chain.
  2. Select the fund you want to bridge: $BOBA, $ETH, or $BNB
  1. Enter Amount to bridge.
  2. Click “Bridge” then “Confirm”
  3. You are done! Just wait for your funds to appear in your destination chain!

Disclaimer: Users will be able to directly deposit from Arbitrum and Optimism into the Boba Network but not the other way around. There will not be a bridge liquidity deposit function as the liquidity is provided by the foundation. The daily limits for withdrawals and deposits are to be monitored and updated as required.

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