Syscoin, one of the earliest crowdfunding blockchain projects, announces the successful mainnet launch of the Syscoin Bridge Protocol. For Syscoin, this represents a significant technological milestone in blockchain interoperability. However, the Syscoin Bridge is a zero counterparty bridge for moving tokens back and forth between the Syscoin and Ethereum Blockchains.

The team working tirelessly on this project says they face many challenges during development. Some of them are centralization, custodianship, mutating coin supply, the need for market liquidity providers, and involvement of a third token or chain as an intermediary. The only solution to all these challenges is the Syscoin Bridge. The team has also introduced and implement an all-new concept in this DApp i.e. cross-chain fractional supply. It retains tokens’ designed supply characteristics across multiple chains. It’s a product of the underlying burn/mint mechanism utilizing SPV Proofs.

Syscoin Ethereum Bridge

Currently, ERC20 tokens can use the Syscoin Bridge and receive several benefits and capabilities from Syscoin Platform’s ecosystem including:

Ideal store of value through Bitcoin merge mined Proof of Work and a Bitcoin-compliant core

Decentralization for Ethereum DeFi platform users

Cross-chain fractional supply and fungibility

Token Supply Integrity is maintained across multiple chains via burn/mint using SPV Proofs. Operate across chains without locking coins or otherwise skewing real supply

Maintain sovereign ownership and control of your tokens throughout interoperations

Furthermore, Token fungibility emerges from the use of zero-knowledge proofs. Transaction trackers now must evolve to remain relevant in the interoperability landscape.

Syscoin Token Platform with Z-DAG Protocol

Decentralized token payment layer useful for point-of-sale, providing near-instant transactions at greatly diminished fees.

A throughput that exceeds credit card networks, proven by Whiteblock

Case-by-case determination of ideal speed/security trade-off through the use of an interactive protocol with probabilistic security catching up to 99.9999% of double-spend events in 10 seconds or less

Onchain settlement of all near-instant payments

Alleviate Scaling Pressure

Free resources on traffic-laden networks by off-loading to Syscoin Platform, an ideal network for simple value transfers, which often represent the majority of traffic.

Improve network performance for flagship services such as turning complete smart contracts.

In turn, Syscoin Platform tokens gain the utility of Ethereum, such as turning complete smart contracts, and its wide array of tools such as MetaMask, hardware wallets, DEX and DeFi platforms.

Besides, the SYSX ERC20 is an active, working instance of a Syscoin Bridge integration. So, it can serve as a reference implementation for developers. Find Sys-Ethereum smart contract on GitHub.

Potential Use Cases

The uses made possible by the Syscoin Bridge Protocol are vast. As a result, the technology opens a world of options and viability to tokens, apps, and others. For example:

Tokens at Point-of-Scale:

Using the Syscoin Bridge, merchants and token users can benefit from near-instant transaction confirmation; miniature transaction fees; case by case determination of speed/security trade-off; and protect themselves against the risk of double-spends. Utilizing stablecoins such as Tether’s Ethereum-based assets via the Syscoin Bridge could open up new paths of payment for merchants and users alike.

Decentralization by Choice:

Users of platforms with less-proven consensus mechanisms, such as Proof of Stake or its variants, or otherwise facing potential centralization issues, now have the option of using the Bitcoin-compliant merge mined PoW available to them through this bridging technology.

Exchanges (including DEX)

In addition, Syscoin Bridge combined with the speed and high-throughput fulfillment provided by the Syscoin Token Platform can enable performant exchanges.

On the other hand, interchain integration through Syscoin Bridge isn’t limited to Ethereum alone. According to the Syscoin team, ecosystem participants will continue to weigh the benefits of potential future integrations.