Intro to Hyperlane

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What is Hyperlane?

Hyperlane is a permissionless interoperability protocol for cross-chain communication across different blockchain environments. It enables message passing and asset transfers across different chains without relying on centralized intermediaries or requiring any permissions.

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Key Features

• Permissionless: Anyone can deploy Hyperlane, whether it is a layer 1, rollup, or app-chain, and start building cross-chain applications right away—no approvals, no intermediaries.
• Modular Security: Hyperlane’s Interchain Security Modules (ISM) allow developers to configure, compose, and customize their security model according to their application’s needs.
• Multi-VM Support: Hyperlane enables cross-chain communication for multiple virtual machines (VMs), including EVM, SVM and CosmWasm.
  • Hyperlane also supports cross-VM interactions, such as EVM ↔ SVM asset transfers.

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Start Building with Hyperlane​

Get started with Hyperlane by exploring deployment guides & key features:

• Bridge any token with Hyperlane Warp Routes (HWR): HWRs let you deploy a custom token bridge, enabling any native or ERC20 token to be transferred across chains.

  • For EVM-based chains, use the EVM HWR Guide.
  • For Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) chains, see the SVM HWR Guide.
  • For Cosmos SDK-based chains, use the Cosmos SDK Module.
  • For cross-chain transfers between EVM and SVM, check out the EVM-SVM HWR Guide.

• Learn about General Message Passing: Send arbitrary messages between chains.

• Use Interchain Accounts: Execute smart contract calls on remote chains from a single account.

• Deploy Hyperlane to your chain: Set up Hyperlane on a new chain.

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