Umbria’s Cross-Chain Narni Bridge is Now Live - quick, easy and cheap transfer of assets between different blockchains

Last week we launched our highly anticipated Narni ‘Insta’ Bridge, which is the fastest and cheapest bridge from Ethereum to Polygon Network 🥳

Users of the bridge - bridge.umbria.network - can transfer $UMBR (Umbria’s governance token) between the Ethereum Mainnet and Matic Mainnet quickly, easily and cheaply. Imminently the bridge’s functionality will extend to see it compatible with a universe of other assets and integrating with a host of different blockchains.

“We’re delighted to bring a game-changing product to the DeFi community and are looking forward to developing Narni into a main hub for cross-chain transactions. We believe Narni will be a gateway for introducing a large audience to the Umbria ecosystem.” Dev Barnyard, Co-lead developer of Umbria

Pool and Earn

In addition to asset transfers between networks, users can now ‘pool and earn’ — that is provide liquidity to the bridge — to receive fees (bridge.umbria.network/pool). Whenever someone bridges assets between two cryptocurrency networks using the Umbria Narni Bridge, the liquidity providers receive a share of a 0.2% fee. Liquidity providers can provide a single asset to the bridge and earn interest in the native asset they supplied. This facility is currently available for UMBR on both the Ethereum and Polygon networks and will quickly be extended to other assets. Stablecoin farmers should find this function particularly profitable. Stablecoins are likely to be the assets most frequently bridged due to their common use in arbitrage and trading and are therefore expected to accrue higher fee generation for the liquidity providers. Unlike in traditional liquidity provision and farming, stablecoins offer a high yield.

“The bridge launch went very smoothly and we are extremely excited to launch USDT within the next month. This is just the first step to unifying all blockchains and facilitating a new era of interoperability between cryptocurrency networks.” Dev Oskii, Co-lead developer of Umbria.

Read the full details here.

ICYMI - The Connect Portal 

We have also launched our Connect Portal, which enables anyone to very quickly and easily connect their Metamask wallet to any EVM compatible chain.

By using the connect portal, users can configure their wallet to interact with their assets on the desired network at the click of a button instead of having to manually configure RPC connections.

Docs/Info Repo

We have also created an Umbria documentation section where you can find all information about the bridge, DEX and farm: bridge.umbria.network/docs

If you have any feedback or questions, please let us know in the comments.