What Bridge is
The short version.
Bridge is QUAD's crossing lane — a cross-chain bridge that moves assets, messages, and proofs between chains. Think of it like customs: it records what's being sent, from where, and with what proof, then hands it to the destination to decide. Delivering something to a border isn't the same as the other side letting it in, and Bridge keeps those two things firmly separate.
OBOL is its token. It pays for the work of crossing — securing lanes, carrying proofs, relayer costs, and border friction. OBOL isn't the thing being moved, and it isn't Core's value.
Where it's up to
Honest status, today.
The Bridge chain (bridge-1) is live, with owner-published source-pool, IBC, host-chain, owner-vault, quote, ledger, and crossing evidence. Pool rows, supported pairs, balances, and finality state change, so read the current ledger, pair manifest, and receipt routes on the Bridge subdomain rather than relying on a copied total here.
Movement is open, and it works one way: you say what you want, get an itemised quote, pay the quoted deposit on the source chain, and Bridge matches and settles it. Nothing moves without a quote first, and each route opens only once it has its proofs — an open channel, a relayer, finality, a matched receiver, and destination evidence. A bridge is the riskiest part of any stack, so lanes open one at a time, on evidence, never on promises.
Swap as you cross
One asset in, a different one out.
Bridge can also quote a different output asset from Bridge-held inventory. The live quote owns the pair, price, fee, receiver, capacity, expiry, finality rule, and output evidence; a static fee or pair must never be assumed. This is not an order book or AMM, a cash-out to a bank, a wrapper sold as the native asset, or a promise that the destination will admit the result. Bridge may temporarily hold deposits and pool inventory under its published route law, so custody and refund state must be read from the specific quote and receipt.
