Solana and Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 blockchain Base have been bridged collectively utilizing Chainlink’s know-how in a transfer to extend liquidity between the 2 networks.
Base on Thursday that it launched a bridge connecting it to Solana secured by Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) and Coinbase, enabling seamless asset transfers.
The bridge is now dwell on mainnet for builders to combine, and rolling out for anybody to make use of in apps, together with Zora, Aerodrome, Virtuals, Flaunch, and Relay.
Customers may also have the ability to commerce Solana () and lots of Solana-based property on Base. Base builders can even combine the bridge to help Solana property, equivalent to SPL tokens, natively of their apps.
Solana is the second-largest blockchain by worth locked, with $9 billion in property, whereas Base is the sixth-largest with $4.5 billion in property, DefiLlama. Each blockchains are recognized for his or her intention to facilitate buying and selling and low charges.
A crosschain interoperability milestone
The bridge is a technical milestone, because it joins Ethereum Digital Machine ()-compatible chains with Solana’s non-EVM structure.
Base can be positioning itself as a hub for multichain exercise relatively than competing solely throughout the EVM ecosystem, which might give it a bonus as customers more and more need entry to property throughout totally different chains with out managing a number of wallets.
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Each Base and Solana have been primarily used for and buying and selling on account of their excessive throughput and low transaction prices.
Exercise on Solana has been in decline for a yr, with lively addresses peaking at over 6 million in November 2024 and subsequently falling to their present ranges of two.4 million, to DefiLlama.
Base lively addresses have additionally been in decline since peaking in June 2025; nevertheless, the blockchain’s transaction depend has risen this yr, hitting a month-to-month of practically 407 million in November.
SOL and LINK commerce down on the day
The worth of the Solana token didn’t react to the information and 3% on the day to beneath $140. SOL is now down greater than 50% from its January 2025 all-time excessive of over $293.
Chainlink () additionally dropped round 3% on the day to $14.30. LINK is now down 73% from its 2021 all-time excessive of practically $53, regardless of the current launch of the primary exchange-traded fund, as altcoins have underperformed to date this market cycle.
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