Bridges

Who this is for: developers and users who need to move assets or messages between Lumia and another chain, and want to know which mechanism applies.

Native Lumia bridge

The default path for moving assets between Ethereum and Lumia.

Shared settlement layer

Lumia is a member of Polygon's shared AggLayer settlement layer.

Interchain messaging

Hyperlane provides interchain messaging as part of Lumia's interoperability stack.

Which mechanism applies to which route

Each mechanism covers a different pair of endpoints.

The diagram shows which mechanism covers which route, not how long a transfer takes on any of them.

Native Lumia bridge

This is the default path for moving assets between Ethereum and Lumia. Walkthrough: /build/bridge/bridge-to-lumia (developer version) or /use/bridge/bridge-guide (plain-language version).

Shared settlement layer

The shared settlement layer Lumia uses, which also connects it to the other CDK chains. Concept and role on Lumia: /lumia/architecture/polygon/agglayer.

Interchain messaging

Hyperlane is a general-purpose interchain-messaging protocol, used as part of Lumia's interoperability stack.

Details: /lumia/architecture/interoperability/hyperlane.