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Anyone venturing into Solana would not miss talks about Wormhole. Wormhole enables DeFi platforms to leverage Solana for high-speed, low-cost transactions while allowing for settlement on another base chain.
As a communication bridge between Solana and other top decentralized finance (DeFi) networks, Wormhole also supports the inter-blockchain message. Thus, it is the first of its kind bi-directional bridge connecting Ethereum and Solana.
Wormhole expressed: The Wormhole network has 19 independent node validators known within the network as “Guardians.” It is important to understand Guardians’ function, how they work and enable Wormhole’s security, who they are, and why you don’t actually need to trust them.
The collective Guardian set’s primary role is to ensure trustless generic message validation across supported chains. Each Guardian’s function within the network is quite simple to attest to messages observed on supported chains & sign VAAs (validator action approvals).
When 2/3+ of the Guardians sign a VAA, it allows for asynchronous, fast, single-round consensus of state & for the message to be published to the P2P network. It’s then persisted or submitted to the target chain on a higher-level protocol such as a token bridge.
The signed VAA is the proof of consensus that can then be leveraged by anyone or any application for work across the chain.
You need not trust the network Guardians because they’re leaderless — meaning that all Guardians perform the same computation upon observing an on-chain event. Thus, each Guardian has equal weight in facilitating consensus.
So, for an attack to be successful, 2/3rds+ of the Guardian set would need to act maliciously or have their keys compromised. Recent attacks like on PolyNetwork show the importance of a robust layer of network validators to ensure security.
Each Guardian brings a spotless history of positive-sum contributions to the crypto community and a reputation as the highest quality network validators.
The 19 Guardian nodes are: @CertusOne, @syncn0de, @forbole, @HashQuark, @StakingFac, @ChorusOne, @DokiaCapital, @Figment_io, @moonlet_wallet, @01node, @StakingFund, @chainlayerio, @ChainodeTech, @MCFvalidator, @everstake_pool, @P2Pvalidator, @staked_us, @triton_data, and @mabalaru.
Previously, it was reinstated about how Wormhole was designed to prevent hacks similar to that which happened recently. To prevent attacks like Poly’s, Wormhole was designed to be a lightweight and modular messaging protocol.
Wormhole doesn’t route messages and only attests them, avoiding the entire class of vulnerabilities. Routing messages is up to each application, independent of the core contract (~Leo)
Community Response: Someone asked: How do I mint/buy something on Solana. I used to open the sea. I am interested in this project. Is there a guide or anything? I am completely lost. Answer: Join the Discord on their website, ask questions there.
