Snowbridge 2025/2026 Proposal Redux

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Snowbridge, a trustless Polkadot-Ethereum bridge, has been now been live for over a year, running successfully with no onchain issues and zero onchain downtime. With our launch, we shifted to doing extensive marketing and business development work — the main milestone in our 2024 proposal was to successfully integrate with 6 parachains and we’ve radically surpassed that milestone:

Snowbridge now has integrations with ~24 parachains, wallets, apps, and other services across the Polkadot ecosystem.
Snowbridge has also grown to over $75M TVL, the second highest across all protocols on the Polkadot network.
Snowbridge has seen an additional ~$15M in growth over the last month since our last failed proposal and we expect growth to continue further through the year.
Snowbridge has become a key piece of infrastructure for most of the top products in the Polkadot ecosystem including Hydration, Asset Hub and Mythical:

This proposal is for a roadmap for the next year that covers:

Deploying V2, an overhaul of our protocol with many new improvements
Adding support for major Ethereum L2 chains
Support for single-click, multi-hop swap and bridge transactions
Simplifying the SDK developer experience and documentation
Optimizing our light client for faster, cheaper bridging - down to 1-2 minutes for Polkadot -> Ethereum transfers.
Giving OpenGov new superpowers that it can use to poach liquidity from Ethereum products
Ramping up support for stablecoins and improve the UX of stablecoin-based payment flows
Improving our consumer-targeted marketing efforts
Improve the decentralisation of our off-chain components
Continuing to operate, secure and keep the bridge up to date

The cost for this roadmap is ~$1.87M. The proposal also includes an additional $300k payment for a past failed transaction and a $937.5k retroactive payment for completed past milestones This brings the total cost of this proposal to ~$3.1M.

The roadmap payment is split into an advance payment and a completion payment in 1 year based on successful, on time delivery.

In contrast to our last failed proposal, this one completely removes our incentive funding and replaces it with runway funding, reducing the cost by ~$1.9M. It’s also a much simpler, more transparent payment structure with a stronger roadmap focus on unlocking growth.

The full breakdown of these roadmap items, as well as details on the cost and payment structure is in our full proposal here: https://www.notion.so/snowfork/Snowbridge-2025-2026-Proposal-Redux-21f296aaabef803193e3f65b28fef1c5

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16ML...qPRa

Team ParaSpell✨ is working closely with team Snowbridge on allowing developers to integrate bridge functionality into their dapps with ease, so that the users can enjoy moving assets to/from Ethereum with ease.

Our experience with the Snowbridge team is very pleasant, and they react to our support questions very promptly. The tech they built is solid, and vital for the ecosystem.

With kind regards,
Team ParaSpell✨

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Hi Guys,

As highlighted by the UXB-8, proposing a full SDK to devs is the key to success, especially considering Polkadot HUB now. So i'm glad to see this milestone in the proposal.
UXB-8 research doc: https://forum.polkadot.network/t/ux-bounty-uxb-8-bridge-ux-research-doc/13713

There is also a few points that should be addressed as you are mentioning "Improving our consumer-targeted marketing efforts"

Could you please add the "Funded/Powered/Secured by Polkadot" on the Snowbridge app page please?
You can find the related branding here: https://distractive.notion.site/polkadot-brand-hub
Have you ever considered to rebrand into "Polkadot bridge"?
You are fully funded by the eco and Snowbridge IS the the canonical bridge of the ecosystem.
So in terms of Marketing and discoverability, it's a big big miss.
You could ask the community if they want such a rebrand which seems a win-win for everyone.
Have you ever considered to make a PR to Defillama so that they add Snowbridge into their bridge pages?
It will also help the bridge discoverability and improve Polkadot awareness.
https://defillama.com/bridges

Feel free to let some feedbacks also on the UXB-8 research doc forum post, we'd like to get in touch with you guys but we lack contacts so far :). You are identified as key stakeholder.

Cheers.
Thomas (Bifrost and UX Bounty advocate).

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