Q: Which Blockchain Is Best? A: Who Cares, When You Have Bridges

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• AMD and Wormhole’s new partnership brings us one step closer to a world where all major blockchains work seamlessly with one another.

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Wormhole is partnering with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to enable ‘corridors’ for zk-proofs that will then allow cross-chain messaging.

Cool. What does that mean?

Lets dish out the who, what, how & why of it all — starting with who:

AMD makes computer chips and Wormhole is a blockchain ‘bridge,’ which means it facilitates the transfer of tokens between opposing blockchains (e.g. Ethereum to Solana).

Neat — what are these two working on together?

Well, Wormhole connects 30+ different blockchains. That’s hefty! And with that heft, comes the need for a whole bunch of compute power.

Good news is, Wormhole has created a ‘light client,’ which…

Man, how do we explain this?

Think of ‘Wormhole and Wormhole Light’ like ‘Coke and Diet Coke,’ except instead of calories, it aims to reduce compute requirements.

But even with Wormhole’s ‘light client,’ some extra oompf is needed — which is where AMD’s ‘FPGA’ chips come in.

Cool, cool…Diet Coke and computer chips, or whatever — why should I care?

You know how everyone is always arguing about which blockchain is better?

(Bitcoin vs. Ethereum vs. Solana vs. Cardano, etc. — it’s incessant!)

Well, blockchain bridges like Wormhole silence a lot of that bickering.

Cause when all the major blockchains work seamlessly with one another, they stop competing in many ways.

And this partnership brings us one step closer to that peaceful reality!