With Stargate, users & dApps can transfer native assets cross-chain while accessing the protocol’s unified liquidity pools with instant guaranteed finality.

Powered by LayerZero omnichain technology

Stargate is built on LayerZero technology, an omnichain interoperability protocol designed for lightweight message passing across chains.

What this means is that apps built using LayerZero’s infrastructure will enable users to experience multiple chains and ecosystems much more seamlessly.

While cross-chain messaging today is usually synonymous with bridging, LayerZero intends to make all cross-chain functions easier than ever before, including state sharing, bridging, lending and borrowing, swaps, and governance.

LayerZero will connect all chains seamlessly, having users unaware they are even using it. It will enable current and new Decentralized Applications to expand beyond the borders of EVM or Non-EVM, creating the world’s first omnichain applications.

— Ryan Zarick, CTO of LayerZero

Experiencing the magic of Omnichain Fungible Tokens (OFT)

In a joint Quest campaign with Trader Joe, users got to experience one of Stargate’s core products through an interesting application of LayerZero’s novel technology.

The goal of the Quest was for users to try bridging with Omnichain Fungible Tokens (OFTs), which are tokens that can be bridged across multiple blockchains at a 1:1 ratio without the need for “wrapping”.

In other words, OFTs reach the source chain from its destination chain in one smooth transaction.

Stargate chose Trader Joe’s native token JOE as one of the first non-core assets to be integrated directly with Stargate. To power top-of-funnel acquisition and growth, Stargate also selected Layer3 as their preferred platform to take users through an OFT product journey.

In February, we created a Quest with Stargate & Trader Joe on Layer3 to to introduce Omnichain JOE

Using our no-code Quest Builder, we were able to create an immersive and educational Quest for users to try omnichain JOE. Let’s take a look at some of the features that powered this campaign:

• No-code, modular Quest Builder: This Quest drove over 10,000 participants and rewarded 500XP to each participant

• On-chain verification system for EVM: To encourage on-chain product usage, Quest participants were asked to complete the following steps:

  • Swap to at least $5 worth of OFT JOE using Stargate

  • Bridge to at least $5 worth of OFT JOE using Stargate

  • Swap OFT JOE to USDC on Arbitrum using Stargate

• Quiz and Information Cards: Participants learned about OFTs through an informative Quiz, along with detailed instructions for bridging

• Off-chain Twitter verification and Layer3’s Discord bot: We grew Stargate and Trader Joe’s reach on Twitter with over 9.7k+ RTs and 5.7k likes on our Quest announcement, and verified that 10k+ participants were in the Trader Joe discord

• Gasless Omnichain-NFT (ONFT) minting system: Lastly, Stargate incentivized participants by providing a special Trader Joe x Stargate ONFT, minted free of charge and rewarded to users on Arbitrum immediately upon Quest completion

By incentivizing, educating, and reinforcing user learnings through simple, on-chain actions, Stargate was able to drive proper usage of their product, while also introducing their novel product to the broader web3 community.

Layer3 is proud to work with Stargate Finance to power an omnichain future

We’re proud to work with Stargate Finance and LayerZero to power the future of omnichain technology. As part of our long-term campaign, more than 30,000 participants have been able to enjoy fun and educational Quests that enable them to experience omnichain technology like never before.

Interested in growing your web3 product? Get in touch with us, and we’ll let you know how we can help.

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In our latest Quest, level up your web3 privacy and security practices by using Brave Wallet. Brave Wallet is a secure multi-chain crypto wallet built directly into the Brave browser, a secure, fast, and private browser that blocks companies from tracking your data online.

What is Brave?

Brave is one of the safest browsers on the market, and is easily our browser of choice when it comes to exploring web3.

By blocking third-party data storage, protecting users from fingerprinting, and automatically upgrading every webpage possible to secure https connections, Brave is a more secure way to browse the web.

With Brave Wallet integrated directly into the Brave browser, users are able buy, send, store, and swap thousands of assets (and NFTs) seamlessly on 100+ blockchain networks including Ethereum, Solana, Filecoin, and more.

Start Here

In our latest Quest with Brave, download the Brave Browser and get started on Brave Wallet by completing the following steps!

• Learn about Brave and Create a Brave Wallet

• Connect your Brave Wallet to Layer3 via our multi-wallet functionality

• Make a swap using Brave Wallet

Why Brave Wallet?

Brave Wallet is the first secure crypto wallet built directly into the Brave browser. You don’t have to take any extra steps to download an extension, which means less vulnerability to faked versions of an app, phishing, and theft.

Unlike other wallets, Brave doesn’t track any of the actions you make in your wallet, ensuring a privacy-first experience for users. It also comes with jam-packed features like multi-chain support, fiat on-ramps, price feed and market rankings powered by CoinGecko, as well as a gallery view of your NFT portfolio.

We’re excited to partner with Brave to bring you a more private and secure web3 experience!

Learn More

For more about Brave, download the Browser or follow them on Twitter

Want to supercharge your web3 experience? Discover this Quest and many more on Layer3.

Layer3 is empowering the next generation of web3 users as the best place to learn, explore, and succeed in web3. Take custody of your assets and learn the essential skills for a decentralized future through our guided crypto courses. We take users through exciting new web3 products via interactive on-chain experiences and educational Quests, and have helped over 40+ customers take 200k+ users through 10M+ on-chain actions.

**To continue your web3 journey, find Layer3 on Twitter, Discord, or Telegram **👋

Solutions like ENS, POAP, Noox, and Gitcoin Passport try to address this question by providing web3 users with unique identifiers and tracking reputation with on-chain activity, while Quests on Layer3 help you measure your on-chain progress. Numerous initiatives have been powered by the idea that your wallet activity is supposed to be a representation of who you really are.

As web3 apps continue to evolve, however, a singular wallet will no longer represent a user’s digital identity or reputation.

Empowering true self-custody means that users will have different wallets for different functions, needs, and security levels. We see this emerging user behavior at Layer3 and we think it’s here to stay.

One may want to try DeFi apps on their “hot” wallet, but store NFTs in a cold storage wallet like Ledger or Trezor. A wallet on Cosmos is naturally incompatible with your EVM wallet (for now), but they are both yours. You may want to use a multi-sig to coordinate transactions with your DAO or participate in on-chain governance, but leave an individual wallet for personal use, like trading NFTs or earning digital collectibles. Yet, all these wallets belong to you: Should they be technically be considered separate in your on-chain reputation?

Similarly, if users have no choice but to attribute all of their on-chain activity to a singular wallet, they have little to no control over the types of data they reflect to the outside world, in circumstances that are not so different to its non-crypto predecessors. Some, like Disco, are attempting to solve for decentralized identity in this way—but still assumes that users prefer to use only one wallet in doing so.

Down the line, Account Abstraction could also mean that creating a wallet isn’t part of the onboarding process at all, with protocols and platforms potentially having the ability to create app-specific wallets for a myriad of uses, and validate transactions in an entirely novel way.

• Account abstraction, in general, is the ability to set the validity conditions of a transaction programmatically. Cami does a great high-level overview of the concept here.

Attributing individual identity to a single wallet was originally a sybil prevention measure, but just like how many of us do not confine ourselves to one platform, bank, or nation outside of crypto, we will also not confine ourselves to one wallet.

Personally, I think that protocols are mistaken to attempt to solve sybil and botting at the individual wallet level, and many waste precious time and resources trying to determine if a wallet is “trustworthy” or not. A sophisticated bot could easily avoid these obstacles by emulating what is considered as trustworthy on-chain behavior, including transacting or committing large amounts of crypto to the task (a commonly used signifier for whether a wallet can be trusted).

Crypto protocols and ecosystems will have to solve the multi-wallet problem at the level of UX and functionality, and see multi-wallet usage as a feature of developing web3 user behavior.

When a wallet is just an interface to interact with block data, the possibilities for their usage are endless.