Web 3-based payments platform Fuse Network announced a strategic integration with Stargate, a fully composable liquidity transport protocol, to enable cross-chain payments across Fuse. The partnership, announced earlier this week, will see Stargate integrated into Fuse, enhancing interoperability and liquidity for Fuse Network users.
To enable cross-chain payments and asset transfers, Fuse Network will leverage Stargate’s Hydra solution to facilitate secure and seamless asset transfers without relying on traditional liquidity pools, governance, or incentive structures. Additionally, the partnership will enable cost-effective asset transfers across the two networks, with zero fees and slippage, according to the press release statement.
Exploring Stargate’s Hydra Technology Solution
Launched in 2023, Hydra technology allows Fuse users to directly bridge key digital assets such as USDC, USDT, and WETH from over 20 chains directly onto the Fuse Network. These assets are backed by locked native reserves on Stargate’s core blockchains such as Ethereum, Fantom, Avalanche and Arbitrum, ensuring security and reliability without relying on dedicated Fuse liquidity pools.
Hydra’s technology unifies all liquidity across the multiple blockchains it supports, eliminating the need for separate liquidity pathways and reducing dependence on capital reserves or incentivized liquidity. In addition, the technology also ensures that transferring assets from Stargates core chains does not incur any fees and has no slippage, making it cheaper for Fuse users to make high-volume transactions at no additional cost.
One of the key features of Hydra is the composable asset model that allows users to interact with decentralized applications across the omnichain ecosystem, further expanding the utility and accessibility of Fuse Network. Assets are fully composable across all supported chains, ensuring users can use various DApps without barriers.
Finally, integrating Stargate’s Hydra technology aims to provide Fuse users with an efficient pathway for liquidity migration. With Hydra’s unified model, most DeFi liquidity on Fuse will migrate directly to Stargate assets, removing the need for complex governance decisions, incentives, or seeded capital on Fuse.
Looking Foward: Fuse Network Plans for The Future
Over the years Fuse users have faced major complexities while trying to transfer assets, which have resulted in slower transactions or more costly transfers. Removing these complexities of traditional liquidity structures will enable Fuse to offer more scalable, user-friendly and cost-effective payment solutions for businesses and individuals.
The partnership with Stargate will also help the payments solution provider accelerate its broader roadmap, which includes significant upgrades such as the Fuse Ember transition to modular architecture and zkEVM compatibility.
As Fuse Network continues its plans to provide a global payment system, the partnership with Stargate will push the company closer to its goals. Fuse users will have a frictionless experience in transferring digital assets across multiple blockchains and a more streamlined nd scalable approach to cross-chain transactions.
