🧠 How does ICP enable cross-chain transactions without a bridge? Our Lead Cross-Chain Engineer, Grégory Demay, will provide an in-depth explanation in the first episode of a new Tech Talk series. Let's take a look: 🧵👇 🧵 1/4 How does it work? 🔗 Traditional blockchains are walled gardens, limited to one-way communication and relying on centralized APIs. 🌐 The Internet Computer enables smart contracts to interact with external blockchains like #Ethereum and #Solana without a single point of failure. 🛡️ Decentralized HTTPS calls aggregate responses from multiple providers to ensure correctness and availability. ⚖️ Customizable response validation methods, such as threshold-based consensus, improve fault tolerance. 🧵 2/4 Why is it so important? 🤖 DFINITY's cross-chain smart contracts provide developers with a reliable bridge between Ethereum and Solana. 💰 Requests for payments use the Internet Computer's native lifecycle, without the need for API keys or payment management. 🗳️ Governance of cross-chain contracts is handled by a DAO, ensuring secure, community-driven updates. 🧵 3/4 Watch Grégory's full video here: If you want to better understand ICP's cross-chain capabilities, you might also like to learn about Chain Fusion: