Blockchain
The Uniswap Basis’s govt director mentioned a cross-chain bridge governance vote garnered “extra consideration than any Uniswap proposal in current reminiscence.”
Devin Walsh’s put up got here after a spirited debate over which bridge — a protocol used to attach blockchains — might be used to tie Uniswap with Binance’s BNB Chain. Wormhole prevailed in a neighborhood “temperature verify” that attracted important involvement, each publicly and behind the scenes, from a few of DeFi’s most deep-pocketed backers, together with a16z and Soar.
Walsh wrote that the “remaining Governance vote will transfer ahead with the outcomes of the latest Snapshot Ballot.”
“In different phrases, no votes voiced exterior of the Snapshot ballot might be counted within the outcomes,” Walsh continued. “The proposal to deploy Uniswap v3 on BNB Chain will go ahead to the ultimate governance vote with Wormhole as the chosen bridge.”
Second place
LayerZero, which got here in second place within the vote, argued in an announcement Tuesday that, in mild of sentiments expressed by Uniswap stakeholders, it was the “most popular bridge” out of the group. The startup additionally argued that the inspiration ought to maintain a vote with each Wormhole and LayerZero as choices.
In her put up, Walsh wrote that the inspiration “noticed the clear alternative to create a greater course of for future cross-chain deployment proposals” and invited suggestions on a proposal for a cross-chain bridge evaluation group.
Walsh mentioned that the talk over the bridge choice “highlighted the pressing want for a greater course of to be applied for bridge choice” in addition to extra analysis “into bridges for governance, and into bridge-agnostic options for protocols.”
“We hope our learnings, and the brand new course of we create from right here, will contribute to the creation of extra seamless, customary processes and technological options that different protocols can profit from as they think about deploying throughout different chains,” she wrote.