Blockchain Bridging Protocol LayerZero to Connect With Bitcoin Sidechain Rootstock

LayerZero, the bridging protocol that permits completely different crypto networks to talk with one another, plans to join to Bitcoin sidechain Rootstock in what can be its first integration with the world’s unique blockchain.

Rootstock goals to finish Bitcoin’s “isolation” from different blockchains due to its lack of native good contracts, a barrier that LayerZero is in a position to handle, in accordance an emailed announcement shared with CoinDesk on TK.

The Bitcoin blockchain lacks the performance to supply good contracts that different blockchains have and that are basic constructing decentralized finance (DeFi) providers.

This lack of provision for DeFi on Bitcoin, which holds extra worth that each different blockchain mixed, is an obstacle to even higher adoption. That’s prompting builders to in search of methods of tapping into the huge liquidity that’s held in bitcoin (BTC) and permitting it to be bridged to remainder of the crypto world.

With the connection between Rootstock and LayerZero, builders would have the ability to construct functions on the Bitcoin sidechain that may talk with the over 100 different blockchains, together with Ethereum and Solana, Rootstock mentioned within the announcement.