So many bridges in crypto but not a single one that comes any close to across protocol because it's the only protocol going on a different path than most bridges, without Vc's, without claiming clout and just developing things beyond a bridge ever since the bear market.

<br> There are multiple bridges that claim "we're the fastest bridge" and I've tried some of them mostly because of "airdrops" and that user experience while airdrop hunting was beyond painful. so I don't know why most bridges are even marketing something they're not.

But when I see the chart of those bridges, it explains everything. TVL continue to go downhill with the price as people leave those protocol after farming the airdrop.

There's only one bridge I've used over and over again, and so other people as well return again after bridging assets through across once because this bridge was never about farming airdrops and leave: it's about the experience and saving time, efforts, prioritising community and much more.

How Across Protocol is Elevating Bridging Standards in the DeFi Ecosystem - Tier List of bridges

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The bridging in Defi is a whole narrative and there's used to be a bridge war amongst protocol, after trying some of these I made my tier list and reason why across is S-tier is explained ahead in this post. 

The one thing I'm fan about across bridge is it's UI/UX which is way better and comfortable to use compared to the rest of bridges in the market.

It's always been my first priority to use UI that is easy to understand even as a beginner and doesn't make my phone lag, don't stuck at some point in the middle of bridging which gives like panic attacks to beginners as they don't understand things, happened with me in various other bridges except across.

1. Bridging is instant on Across

We're living in a time where people can transfer money and receive instantly, it is possible in Defi only because of Across

It doesn't take 30mins, hours or so on to bridge amount from any chain: it's instant 

It is almost instant no matter how big of the amount it is and how congested a network can be at that time of bridging. Assets bridge quicker than 99% of other bridges.

One of the reason why most of people prefer across and how it maintains hundreds and millions of dollars every week is because of being instant, it saves everyone time.

 Another reason is; it is cheaper than rest of bridges 

I'm a saver and don't want to spend extra money just because I need to bridge from one chain to another and when you've to bridge multiple times in a week, you start to avoid bridging again and again as It cost fee's and this is why I missed some of opportunities in Defi

But thanks to across as it is cheap and cost around a cent to even bridge in ETH but with size it still won't go higher than a dollar, will be cheaper than 99% of other bridges.

As of now across have did over $14b+ in volume, imagine the fee's it saved in those 10 million transactions? Also Op rebate rewards go back to those who bridge through across, so it's like freezing of cost bridging.

Yea, this is why most people prefer it including me. An average people who is into memecoins, airdrops will always use across because of this.

Across is all in one, Offers more than bridging 

Back in march, Across introduced it's V3 with interoperability cross-chain in Defi which is the first protocol with modular layer to settle cross chain intents with new products

The way it works is unique in it's own and makes a lot simpler for a newbie in Defi which will help onboard a lot of people

As we know there are multiple chains in the Defi i.e: OP, ARB, Base etc and there are hundreds of dapps built on those chains

Most of the time we bridge assets to use of those dapps or to swap coins into memes or purchasing Nfts

For that without Across cross-chain interoperability, we'll have to bridge assets to that chain first than open dapp in another browser and make those actions separately (too many steps)

But with Across cross-chain interoperability, it is possible to:

Across+ allows you to use Dapps of any kind and performing token swaps/buying NFTs without bridging asset to that chain separately.

It combines Action on Dapps (buy/sell) + bridge (moving asset from eth to ordinals) in one single transaction - that saves both money and time.

It can also perform bridge+LP, bridge+lend in one click.

Across on 15 chains yet expanding 

It supports ETH, OP, ARB, Polygon, base, scroll, zksync Era, Linea, mode, blast and more chains as of now, also time to time it supports/add more new chains into it's ecosystem. 

In Across Trenches since bear market

I've seen this project building from the ground zero the day I joined it because of PVM. Without Vc's, it's just community and Devs building in the across trenches all this time.

I've not seen many projects that prioritise community over anything, across is one of those projects and I've experienced this being in the trenches.

Saw the volume increasing from millions to billions, it started making new all time highs last year as it was growing more, other project started trash talk/clout chasing but bridge wars continue to be silent as across was consistent with volume and TVL

Held it from less than $0.1 to $0.42 which was ATH before it even got listed In any major exchange

And now after binance listing Acx one of my bull run conviction is paying off as the chart looks like this:

That binance listing candle broke my target and happiness was over the moon as the community is winning because of something they've believed in for so long.

From bear market, I've seen bridges making headlines being hacked by lazlo group and plenty of other exploits leading millions of dollars in loss but have always felt safe and secure with across and it's proved to be efficient, secure, fast over and over again.

There's not even a competition now 

Since the last year one thing that stayed in top 3 is Across and if we talk about other bridges than across is already at #1.

It's proven again that utility coins with strong fundamentals are not dead and projects without Vc's can thrive with community

As we've seen with Across and also with hyperliquid recently. It seems like world is healing and longer it stays like this, the more better it is for future projects.

Wrapping up...

I believe we're still early, across is just listed on binance and still Coinbase is remaining. Job's not finished yet and my target is going to be higher now.

Like they say, bet on the winner instead of laggards.

If your bridge is not fast, cheaper and modular in 2025, the truth is your protocol is NGMI. 

Fin. 

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