From L1 to L2s, and LSDs to NFTs, the use cases for trustless interoperability are plentiful.
We are currently in the process of forming partnerships and integrations with some of the industry's most elite projects to bring Union's vision to fruition:
Union | Partnerships & BD pipeline:
| Partner | Status | Category | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polygon Labs | Partnered, announced | L2 | Integrate Union's ZK proofs for IBC into the AggLayer. This integration aims to facilitate the seamless bridging of funds from any IBC-enabled chain to any blockchain connected to the AggLayer, ensuring a trustless, efficient, and low-latency process. |
| Scroll | Partnered, announced | L2 | Union to handle to transfer assets and messages from any IBC-enabled chain into Scroll through its fully trustless, decentralized, hyper-efficient zk-IBC bridge. This IBC connection also marks the first implementation of conditional light clients |
| Noble | Partnered, announced | L1 | By partnering with Union, Noble can extend the security and functionality of the IBC protocol beyond Cosmos and BRING seamless interoperability to the Move ecosystem |
| Movement Labs | Partnered, announced | L1 | Seamless flow of liquidity across Movement rollups, the broader Cosmos ecosystem, and Celestia’s sovereign rollups, Movement will utilize Union’s zero-knowledge IBC bridge for general message passing and asset transfers. This connection will not only allow Move VM rollups to inherit IBC interoperability but also provide them with trustless access to Ethereum liquidity. |
| Skip Protocol | Partnered, announced | MEV | Union to bring zk-IBC to 70+ chains that are connected to Skip API |
| Lava Network | Partnered, announced | RPC | Lava become the modular RPC and access layer connecting users to Union’s testnet. Union will launch an Incentivized Public Remote Procedure Call (ipRPC) campaign with a rewards pool worth $100K in token rewards upon mainnet launch |
| Canto | Partnered, announced | L1 | Union will extend IBC capabilities to Canto and enable liquidity flow in and out of Canto |
| Secret Network | Partnered, announced | L1 | Secret Network has selected Union as its IBC interoperability layer. This decision reflects Union’s commitment to fostering trustless and secure transfers across blockchain networks. |
| Celestia | Partnered, announced | L1 | Union can support Celestia with the development of Optimint for efficient and secure intra-cluster communications. Celestia can benefit from CometBLS and consensus verification for faster proving times and lower operational cost. We can also connect their clusters to other chains outside the Cosmos/IBC ecosystem |
| Aligned Layer | Partnered, announced | Proof Aggregation | Leverage Aligned’s universal verification layer to settle proofs on Ethereum through EigenLayer’s AVS to generate faster and cheaper bridge transactions. |
| Quasar | Partnered, announced | DeFi Liquidity Vault | Joined forces to bridge liquidity between Ethereum and IBC and develop cross-chain yield strategies. Will collaborate with them to create pools and yield strategies in Berachain |
| Arbitrum | Partnered, to be announced | L1 | Union to enable Arbitrum Orbit chains to communicate over IBC by bridging Union’s ZK proofs for IBC packets into Arbitrum. Union will bridge funds from any Cosmos SDK-based chain to other Orbit chains in a trustless, fast, cost-efficient, and low-latency manner.Integrating with Union means that new Orbit chains can immediately access any other IBC-enabled chain out of the box, without vendor lock-in or startup costs. Orbits will also immediately communicate with other Ethereum L2s connected to Union, such as Scroll and Move M2s, as well as between each other. |
| Osmosis | Partnered, to be announced | DEX | Union to enable message passing and asset transfers between EVM chains and Osmosis |
| Aligned Layer | Partnered, to be announced | L1 | Union to enhance its zero-knowledge interoperability through a strategic collaboration with Aligned Layer. This partnership will leverage Aligned Layer’s universal verification layer to settle proofs on Ethereum through EigenLayer's AVS to generate faster and cheaper bridge transactions. |
| 0G Labs | Partnered, to be announced | AI | Become 0G Labs' interop partner and have them use CometBLS for faster and cheaper proof generation |
| Berachain | Partnered, announced | L1 | Create liquidity pools, offering high APY yields using $U and $BERA tokens, attracting hundreds of millions of USD in liquidity to Berachain's blockchain. Union will also facilitate interoperability between Berachain and other IBC chains, enabling asset transfers and message passing. Additionally, both parties will engage in cross-pollination to amplify their ecosystems, with Union acting as a brand ambassador for Berachain and promoting its platform to other projects |
| Jackal Labs | Partnered, to be announced | Appchain | Union will extend IBC capabilities to Jackal Labs and and enable the transfer of storage proofs between Union connected chains |
| Stargaze | Partnered, to be announced | NFT | Union enable the transfer of Ethereum NFTs to Cosmos, making it the first company to achieve trustless interoperability for NFTs between these Ethereum and Cosmos ecosystems. Bluechip Ethererum NFTs like Pudgy Penguins will be listed in the Stargaze marketplace. Similarly, Cosmos NFTs like Bad Kids, Sloths can be listed on OpenSea etc. |
| NEAR Foundation | Proposal | AI | Union is proposing a strategic partnership with NEAR Protocol to enable interoperability between NEAR and other blockchain ecosystems through IBC and NEAR’s MPC. Our goal is to implement Union's zero-knowledge light clients in the NEAR blockchain, allowing NEAR to track and verify state transitions across multiple blockchain ecosystems without sacrificing security or scalability. |
| Aleo | Proposal | L1 | Union is proposing to build a regulatory compliant IBC infrastructure for Aleo Foundation to create a two-way bridge between Aleo Mainnet to IBC and Ethereum using a light client architecture, to be completed by the end of year. |
| Ava Labs | Proposal | L1 | Union is proposing to integrate warp-enabled subnets with any IBC enabled chain (Cosmos, Ethereum, Polkadot, Celestia and more) using a light client architecture. To achieve this, Union Labs proposes to build two key components for Avalanche: Light client (P-chain), ZK Circuit for P-chain LC |
| Monad | Proposal | DEX | Union is proposing to build Monad’s IBC stack for trustless interoperability with any other IBC-enabled chain. The theoretical transfer time from Monad to any other chain would be ~2 seconds. |
| Rocket Pool | Proposal | Staking | Bridge rETH to IBC enabled chains. By leveraging IBC, Union proposes to enable new cross-chain DeFi primitives using a standard interface. This means that rETH can find new uses in DeFi appchains like Berachain, Neutron and Osmosis |
| Citrea | Contacted | BTC L2 | Connect EVM and IBC chains to Bitcoin L2s |
| Puffer.fi | Contacted | LRT | Launch an AVS to use the cryptoeconomic securities of restaked Ethereum for faster and cheaper bridging |
| Renzo | Contacted | LRT | Launch an AVS to use the cryptoeconomic securities of restaked Ethereum for faster and cheaper bridging |
| Ether.fi | Contacted | LRT | Launch an AVS to use the cryptoeconomic securities of restaked Ethereum for faster and cheaper bridging |
| Linea | Contacted | L2 | Extend IBC capabilities to Linea (similar to how we did for Scroll) using implementation of conditional light clients |
| Babylon | Contacted | BTC | Bring BTC liquidity into Berachain |