What Is Wormhole Bridge and How Does It Work? - EL DESPERTAR SAI

Wormhole Bridge is a trustless multi-chain bridge that enables scalable transfers of tokens, non-fungible tokens, and arbitrary payloads across over 30 blockchains, including Polygon, Cosmos, and more.
Its core is built on a Guardian network, requiring a supermajority to validate and sign each transaction. This enables trustlessness.
The protocol is audited, with extensive reviews conducted by recognized auditors like Certik. A substantial bug bounty program encourages ethical hacking.
Developers benefit from generic message support, which enables use cases like cross-chain governance. Its SDK and tooling make deploying cross-chain dApps accessible.
Wormhole Bridge supports fungible tokens using a wrapped asset model with full metadata preservation.
Ideal applications include:- Inter-chain financial apps- Game asset interoperability- DAO governance messaging- Cross-chain queries
Despite a major exploit in 2022 involving $326M, Wormhole has since improved its security posture and remains a leading protocol in the Web3 space.
Whether you're a DeFi user, Wormhole provides the toolkit to bridge ecosystems with security.