Garden: 120x Faster Bitcoin Across Chains
Garden is "the fastest and most cost-efficient way to move native bitcoin between chains without giving up custody." Whether USDT, Solana, Ethereum, Litecoin, or any of several more, Garden moves bitcoin between chains easily, securely, and economically.
And their users move sizable quantities. Over the course of nearly 80,000 swaps, Garden users have moved over 30,000 BTC, which amounts to roughly $2.2 billion USD.
In their own words, "Garden's mission is to be the standard for on-chain bitcoin rails," and they were well on their way.
Bitcoin is at the core of Garden's mission, but it was also the most significant and intractable obstacle they faced. There was no "real-life, payments-grade" way to transfer bitcoin, at least not without accepting an unpalatable tradeoff.
Taking custody of users' funds violates Garden's commitment to Bitcoin, and it induces massive regulatory costs. Wrapping bitcoin adds technical complexity and doesn't solve the basic problem of how to make bitcoin spendable. Accessing Lightning directly means that both developers and users would have to navigate the complexities of channel management, liquidity requirements, connectivity, and so on.
Garden was founded to help people move their bitcoin, but bitcoin remained stubbornly immobile.
"Garden risked being the rails that reached every chain except Bitcoin's payment layer. For a protocol built around Bitcoin, that wasn't acceptable."
Jaz Gulati, Co-founder — Garden
The Breez SDK was the single step Garden needed to overcome the central challenge of bitcoin: how to enable instant, final, economical, non-custodial transfers at scale. Bitcoin is no longer the weak spot of the bitcoin bridge. In fact, the Breez SDK is letting Garden capitalize both on their growing point-of-sale partnerships and on the now decisive advantage over fiat remittances.
The advantages are clear.
For users:
- Interoperability: Users can now swap from Ethereum, Solana, Sui, and other chains directly into bitcoin.
- Speed: "Swaps that would've taken at least 10 minutes are now done in, like, 5 seconds." That's an acceleration of at least 120x in settlement times.
- Ease: Users can remain blissfully unaware of the actual plumbing involved in moving their money, and that peace of mind comes with no additional counterparty risk.
- Economy: The Breez SDK is the right solution whether users are moving money for arbitrage, staking, remittances, or any other purpose because the fees are infinitesimal.
"With the Breez SDK, adopting day-to-day bitcoin payments has never been easier."
Jaz Gulati, Co-founder — Garden
For developers:
- Simplicity: Garden reports that it took a single developer "roughly one month from start to finish" to integrate the Breez SDK.
- Support: "The docs were solid and the Rust support was excellent, which made it straightforward to integrate into our existing system."
- Versatility: Garden has implemented the SDK strictly as a backend solution providing rails between Bitcoin and other chains, without direct engagement by users. The Breez SDK can ace user-facing solutions as well as backend infrastructure.
For growth:
To the extent that growth is simply a matter of eliminating obstacles, the Breez SDK has given Garden the room to flourish. Garden's central challenge of how to achieve "real-life, payments-grade" bitcoin transfers is now solved, and the opportunities are nearly limitless: remittances, investments, staking, retail payments, and more are now within their grasp.
Rooted in the Breez SDK, it's time for Garden to grow.
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