Key features:

• Great default option for bridging
• Compare routes easily
• Swap to different tokens on 63+ different chains
• Useful for checking final output before proceeding

Best known for: Easily finding the best route to swap across many chains.

Jumper is a great starting point if you don’t already know which bridge to use.

You choose what asset you have, the chain you hold it on, and where you want it to go.

As an aggregator, Jumper then compares routes across bridges, DEXs, and liquidity sources – and clearly shows you which one’s the best deal or the fastest before you confirm.

That’s useful because the “best” bridge changes by route. A bridge that works well from Base to Arbitrum, might not be the best choice from Solana to Ethereum.

Jumper is powered by LI.FI, the underlying tech that finds the best path for a cross-chain move. It combines steps like swapping, bridging, and swapping again on the new chain, so you don’t have to do each part manually.

Key features:

• EVM-focused, with Solana and Tron support
• Route comparison across bridges and DEXs
• No Bungee protocol fee
• Refuel for destination-chain gas
• Auto Mode for easier execution

Best known for: Bridging without getting stuck with no gas.

Bungee is a bridge and swap aggregator built by the Socket team. It focuses mostly on EVM chains, but also supports Solana and Tron.

Socket is the routing layer underneath it, which helps move assets across chains by combining bridges, DEXs, and execution steps into one route.

Bungee’s biggest edge is that it doesn’t add its own protocol fee. It also has a few practical features that make it more useful than a basic bridge.

Its Refuel feature lets you send a small amount of native gas to the destination chain, so users don’t end up with funds they can’t move. It also has an “Auto Mode” that lets users sign once and have Bungee handle the route execution, instead of choosing it manually every time.

Socket had a $3.3M exploit in 2024, but the team recovered a large amount of the stolen ETH and made affected users whole.

Key features:

• Great for unusual routes
• Extremely wide ecosystem coverage
• Good route discovery across several bridges
• Supports Cosmos ecosystem, UTXO chains, and more

Best known for: Bridging unusual routes including Cosmos ecosystem, Bitcoin-style chains, and niche chains.

Rango is useful when your route is awkward, especially when its two chains that don’t typically mix.

As a bridge aggregator like Jumper, Rango’s main strength is route discovery. Just tell Rango what you want to move and where to move it, and it will search across bridges, DEXs, and cross-chain protocols.

If you’re just moving between major Ethereum L2s, you might not need Rango.

But if you’re moving across less standard routes across EVM, Solana, Tron, Starknet, Cosmos-based chains, or Bitcoin-style chains like Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Zcash – Rango becomes a lot more useful.

Its biggest edge is how broad its ecosystem support is. Rango covers more of the smaller and niche blockchain ecosystems than most bridges and aggregators miss.

Key features:

• Average fill time of about 1.2 seconds
• Competitive live quotes
• Never hacked
• Integrated into Uniswap, MetaMask, and other major apps

Best known for: Super-fast Ethereum L2 transfers.

Across is built for fast, low-cost bridging across Ethereum and major EVM L2s.

It also uses an intent-based design, which means you choose what asset you want to move and where it should land – then relayers compete to deliver it.

Instead of making you wait for the bridge to release or mint funds, relayers front the money on the destination chain, then get repaid after the transfer is verified.

That’s why Across can feel much faster than older bridges, with most transfers landing in seconds.

It’s also used by major crypto apps like Uniswap, MetaMask, Coinbase, and PancakeSwap to power in-app bridging.

Across has moved over $34 billion for 5 million users, with an average fill time of about 1.2 seconds.

Key features:

• Mostly EVM chain support
• Most transactions complete in under 2 seconds
• Used by Phantom, MetaMask, Rainbow, and OKX
• Turns bridging, swapping, gas, and routing into one transaction
• 99.9% uptime and $20B+ in settled transactions

Best known for: Fast transfers that don’t feel like bridging + wallet integrations.

Relay is built to make cross-chain transfers feel quick and easy, with most transactions completing in under 2 seconds.

You can use it to swap, bridge, or move assets across 85+ mostly EVM-compatible chains without dealing with lots of manual steps.

Relay uses an intent-based design. In simple terms, you tell Relay what you want to happen – and relayers help complete that transfer quickly on the destination chain.

Instead of making users think through bridges, gas, route logic, and chain switching, Relay simplifies the process into one transaction.

That makes it especially useful for wallets and apps. It’s already integrated into popular wallets like Phantom, MetaMask, Rainbow, and OKX wallet, to let users move funds across many chains from those apps.

Key features:

• Native USDC only
• No liquidity pool slippage
• Free standard transfers (excl. network fees)
• Built by Circle

Best known for: Native USDC, no wrapped-token mess.

USDC Bridge is Circle’s own bridge app for moving native USDC between supported chains. It runs on CCTP, Circle’s behind-the-scenes system for cross-chain USDC transfers.

The main difference is that it doesn’t use wrapped USDC or liquidity pools.

It burns USDC on the chain you’re sending from, gets approval from Circle, then mints native USDC on the chain you’re sending to. So you receive real Circle-issued USDC, not a bridge-wrapped version.

Users get smoother USDC transfers, upfront fees, and no liquidity-pool slippage. Standard transfers come with no CCTP fees, while Fast Transfers can cost 0% to 0.14%.

As you could imagine, USDC Bridge is more limited than most bridges because it only works for USDC. But if you’re moving USDC, it’s perfect for avoiding the wrapped-token mess and uses Circle’s own infrastructure.

Key features:

• Covers chains that many other bridges don’t
• Strong stablecoin support
• Built on LayerZero
• Direct bridge, not an aggregator
• Useful for omnichain assets

Best known for: Moving major assets across rarely-supported chains.

Stargate is a popular bridge that reaches a wider mix of major EVM chains, non-EVM networks, and alternative L1s.

Think niche ecosystems like Aptos, Sui, TON, Starknet, IOTA, Hedera, XDC, and Flare – in addition to the usual assets like stablecoins, ETH, wrapped BTC, LayerZero “omnichain” tokens.

Stargate is built on LayerZero, a cross-chain messaging protocol that helps different blockchains communicate data with each other.

Just remember that the final experience still depends on the route. Fees, liquidity, speed, and final output can change depending on the asset and the chains involved.

Stargate is now closely tied to LayerZero, after LayerZero acquired the project in August 2025.

Key features:

• Strong Solana↔EVM support
• Integrated into top wallets and dApps
• Cross-chain swaps, not just bridging
• Supports limit orders and P2P swaps

Best known for: Fast Solana-to-EVM swaps, limit orders, and cross-chain app actions.

deBridge is a great option when you’re moving between Solana and EVM chains.

But it’s not just for bridging single assets across networks. deBridge also supports swaps, messaging, and execution, meaning apps can build more advanced cross-chain actions.

That’s why it’s integrated across major wallets and dApps such as MetaMask, Phantom, and Jupiter.

One unique feature is that deBridge supports limit orders and even a P2P market – meaning you can set orders to be filled at a certain price level later, instead of taking whatever the market rate is at the time.

It has an average settlement time of under 2 seconds, $21B in settled volume, and its own token, DBR, which is tied to the wider deBridge ecosystem.

Key features:

• Supports native assets like BTC, LTC, and more
• No wrapped assets required
• Go-to for swapping non-EVM assets
• Best for advanced users

Best known for: Native asset swaps on Bitcoin-style chains.

THORSwap is different from most bridges because it focuses on native cross-chain swaps.

That means you can swap assets like native BTC, without relying on wrapped BTC or a centralized exchange.

Most bridge apps are heavily EVM-focused, but THORSwap is the go-to option when the asset is outside that EVM world. Think assets like BTC, LTC, or DOGE – important coins, but super neglected by most cross-chain platforms.

You can think of THORSwap more as a cross-chain DEX than a regular bridge. It’s usually used to swap one asset for another across chains, rather than same-asset transfers (but it can do this when the route supports it).

THORSwap uses THORChain, a protocol built specifically for native cross-chain liquidity, but it can also route through other protocols through integrations.

THORChain was exploited in 2021, with router bugs letting attackers drain about $16M across three attacks. Its lending platform THORFi had a safety halt and insolvency concerns in 2025, unrelated to the bridge.

Key features:

• Strong Solana support
• Useful for EVM-to-non-EVM routes
• Built on Wormhole’s 19-Guardian messaging system
• Supports token and NFT bridging

Best known for: Classic Solana bridging across Wormhole-supported chains.

Portal Bridge is the main bridge app built on Wormhole, a cross-chain messaging protocol best known for connecting Solana with other ecosystems.

It locks or verifies assets on one chain, then uses Wormhole’s 19-Guardian network to confirm the transfer and release or mint the matching asset on the destination chain.

Portal is useful for moving tokens and NFTs across 40+ Wormhole-supported chains, including Solana, major EVM chains, and other non-EVM ecosystems.

Wormhole also does more than simple bridging, with its infrastructure supporting cross-chain messaging and app-level communication. More than 200 apps have integrated Wormhole.

It was struck by a $320M hack in 2022 – but investors Jump Crypto covered 100% of those losses for users, and the bug was fixed.

Key features:

• $50B+ settled volume
• Good for EVM chains and L2s
• Supports major assets plus some niche route-specific tokens
• Uses liquidity pools, swaps, CCTP, and RFQ-style routing

Best known for: Established stablecoin routes.

Synapse is a long-running bridge that’s mostly useful for moving assets like USDC, USDT, ETH, and SYN between supported chains.

It can handle both same-asset transfers and cross-chain swaps. Depending on the route, Synapse may use its own liquidity pools, token swaps, Circle CCTP for native USDC, or RFQ-style relayers to get funds to the destination chain.

Synapse doesn’t support as many chains as some other bridges, but also supports some very niche chains. It has handled more than $50 billion in settled volume to date with over 2 million users.

In 2021 someone tried to exploit Synapse for more than $8M, but the transaction was blocked before user funds were lost.

Key features:

• L2-focused bridge
• Good for rollup users
• Fast Maker-based transfers
• $15B+ volume and 30M+ transactions to date

Best known for: Fast L2 bridging, (but growing support for new/non-EVM chains).

Orbiter is a good fit if you mostly move funds between Ethereum L2s and rollup-style networks.

Rather than being an “any chain to any chain” bridge, it started as an L2-first bridge and has grown into more ecosystems over time.

Orbiter uses relayers called Makers, with pooled liquidity behind the scenes. When you send funds from one chain, a Maker helps send the matching funds to the destination chain, while Orbiter’s liquidity pools and OPool contracts help keep funds available across supported chains.

Although it started with standard Ethereum L2s, it now supports some non-EVM and unusual networks including Solana, Sui, TON, Tron, and Rootstock.

It raised a $3.2M seed round in 2022, with Tiger Global as a notable backer, and later received a strategic investment led by OKX Ventures.

Key features:

• Cuts costs by balancing opposite transfers first
• Moves less money between chains, in a good way
• Useful infrastructure for other bridge apps
• Governed by the CLEAR token

Best known for: Helping bridge apps move money between chains more efficiently in the background.

Everclear, formerly Connext, has rebranded itself to become more of a background clearing layer for cross-chain apps, rather than a consumer-facing bridge.

It focuses on efficiency, settling only leftover differences from asset flows rather than every individual transaction. Everclear matches opposite flows, cancels out what balances, and only settles the remaining imbalance.

This can make rebalancing much cheaper for bridges, solvers, market makers, and intent-based protocols.

It has its own bridge at bridge.everclear.org, but most users will likely interact with Everclear through partner apps. It works behind the scenes for systems like Across, Relay, LI.FI, and other chain abstraction protocols.

Everclear is governed by the Everclear DAO, using the CLEAR token for governance, incentives, and distributing fees.

Multichain, formerly Anyswap, used to be one of the biggest cross-chain routers in crypto.

But in 2023, the project collapsed after its CEO was reportedly detained, the team lost access to key systems, and more than $125M was drained from the protocol.

Multichain later said it would cease operations.

Poly Network was once a major cross-chain bridge, but it became best known for the huge 2021 exploit where more than $600M was taken.

The project continued for a while after that, but Poly Bridge services were later suspended in 2024. Poly Network then announced that it would fully terminate its services.

Nomad was hit for around $190M in 2022 after a contract bug made the exploit easy for others to copy.

The project tried to relaunch after the hack, but it never really regained the same trust, usage, or relevance. For regular users, Nomad is best treated as effectively inactive.

Terra Shuttle was tied to the old Terra/Luna ecosystem and was used for moving Terra-related wrapped assets.

After Terra’s collapse and Terraform Labs’ later wind-down, the Shuttle Bridge was permanently closed.

Harmony Horizon was once a notable bridge for the Harmony ecosystem. In 2022, it was hacked for about $100M.

Harmony continued as a network, but Horizon never returned as a serious mainstream bridge option. It’s now better treated as a legacy bridge, not something users should rely on today.

Hop used to be a useful Ethereum L2 bridge for moving funds between networks like Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, Gnosis, Base, Linea, and Polygon zkEVM.

Over time, usage and liquidity fell, and its core developer, Authereum Labs, stepped back in 2026 after struggling to ship Hop Rails and compete with better-funded bridge projects. The official bridge interface also appears to no longer load properly.

Hop isn’t dead in the same way as Multichain or Terra Shuttle, but it’s no longer a leading bridge option. In 2026, it’s better viewed as a legacy Ethereum L2 bridge.