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What is Garden?
Garden is the fastest Bitcoin bridge, enabling cross-chain Bitcoin swaps in as little as 30 seconds. It is built using an intents-based architecture with trustless settlements, ensuring zero custody risk for the users.
With over a billion dollars in volume facilitated, Garden stands apart from other bridges thanks to these benefits.
Use Cases
Swap
Buy and sell Bitcoin with ease. Garden simplifies trustless bridging, making the process seamless and secure. If you're new to Garden, these guides will walk you through your first swap:
To learn how your swap is executed under the hood by Garden protocol, read the intent lifecycle.
Build
Garden is a community-focused project that values and supports developers in creating innovative Bitcoin cross-chain applications using its composable development stack. If you're a developer interested in building or integrating with Garden, here are some key resources to get started:
- API: A straightforward guide to understanding and utilizing Garden's API.
- SDK: A practical introduction to working with the Garden SDK.
- Cookbook: Explore projects developed by our team and partners for inspiration.
For hands-on exploration, head over to the Developers section to dive into the Garden ecosystem.
Provide
Provide liquidity to Garden and earn fees by becoming a solver for the Garden protocol. If you are interested, reach out to us in the townhall to discuss the next steps.
Stake
Garden's staking system employs a game-theoretic mechanism to ensure solver integrity while incentivizing long-term SEED commitment through native Bitcoin rewards.
Jump straight to How to stake SEED for next steps.