Sonic Gateway offers a reliable way to transfer assets across Sonic and Ethereum, with scheduled transaction batching for lower fees and reduced congestion.
Sonic Gateway is a bridge that allows you to securely and efficiently transfer assets between Ethereum and Sonic. It is designed to offer a smooth cross-chain experience by ensuring your funds move quickly and safely between networks. It combines a high level of security with cost-effective transactions for the needs of users, traders, and developers alike.
Many other projects use Layer 2 solutions to achieve scalability, but Sonic remains a Layer 1 blockchain while still offering seamless interaction with Ethereum using Sonic Gateway. This allows you to move assets between chains efficiently without sacrificing security.
Transferring assets using Sonic Gateway is quite simple. First, you need to deposit your assets into the bridge. If you are transferring from Ethereum, this initial deposit takes about 15 minutes to finalize, while Sonic transactions confirm much faster.
After your deposit is confirmed, your assets enter the heartbeat processing phase, where they are queued for the next scheduled transfer. Once the bridging process is complete, you can claim your funds on the destination blockchain. This means that if you are sending tokens from Ethereum to Sonic, you will be able to retrieve them on Sonic after they have been processed. The same process applies when transferring assets from Sonic back to Ethereum.
One of the most important features of Sonic Gateway is its fail-safe security mechanism. Even if the bridge experiences a prolonged failure of 14 consecutive days, you can reclaim your funds directly on Ethereum. You don’t need to worry about losing your assets because your tokens remain protected no matter what happens.
Sonic Gateway processes transactions in scheduled intervals known as heartbeats. These heartbeats help to batch transactions together, reducing congestion and making transfers more efficient. If you are moving assets from Ethereum to Sonic, your transfer will be processed approximately every 10 minutes. If you are transferring assets in the other direction, from Sonic to Ethereum, transactions occur every hour.
By structuring transactions in this way, Sonic Gateway minimizes gas fees and ensures that even large-scale liquidity transfers are handled smoothly. This process is designed to benefit users who don’t need their funds immediately and prefer lower costs over speed.
If you need instant access to your assets, Sonic Gateway offers a feature called Fast Lane. Instead of waiting for the next scheduled heartbeat, you can pay a small fee to have your transaction processed immediately. The fee for this service is 0.0002 S if you are transferring assets on Sonic and 0.0014 ETH if you are bridging from Ethereum.
What makes Fast Lane even more efficient is that when you choose to pay for an instant transfer, you aren’t just speeding up your own transaction. You are also triggering an additional heartbeat for everyone else who has assets waiting to be bridged. This means that by using Fast Lane, you’re not only avoiding wait times but also helping improve transaction efficiency for other users on the network.
At launch, Sonic Gateway supports the transfer of four key assets from Ethereum: USDC, a widely used stablecoin; EURC, a euro-backed stablecoin; WETH, which is wrapped Ethereum; and FTM, the native token of Fantom. These assets were chosen based on their importance in the ecosystem and their liquidity.
In the future, Sonic plans to expand the list of supported tokens. A permissionless mechanism is also being developed, which will allow anyone to propose and add new assets for bridging. This means that as Sonic’s ecosystem grows, more tokens will become available for transfer through Sonic Gateway.
By combining security, cost-efficiency, and reliable transaction processing, Sonic Gateway makes it both safe and easy for any user to manage cross-chain transfers between Sonic and Ethereum.
