# Wormhole’s Portal Bridge allows

By [media ](https://paragraph.com/@media) · 2022-05-18

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you to bridge tokens across different chains. Instead of swapping or converting assets directly, Wormhole locks your source assets in a smart contract and mints new Wormhole-wrapped assets on the target chain. You can then swap Wormhole-wrapped assets on an exchange for other assets on the target chain.

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