But what does this mean? It means it benefits from really cheap and fast transaction output from #Solana while maintaining #Ethereum as the settlement layer, thus benefiting from its security and reliability. But there’s more to it, it uses #Celestia for Data Accessibility, therefore piecing together the best these 3 different ecosystems have to offer.

But how can you access this shiny new world?

  1. First let’s start by sorting out appropriate wallets:

Open Eclipse’s dapp and you’ll notice you need two different wallets:

  • one EVM compatible wallet to connect to ERC20 (Ethereum’s mainnet);

  • one wallet to connect to Eclipse (Backpack and Nightly currently supported). My experience with Nightly never was the best so I decided to try Backpack and it hasn’t let me down so far,

2. After connecting both wallets, the next step is to bridge some ETH over to Eclipse, as this is its gas token. You can simple bridge it from ERC20 utilizing the native bridge and accept its fees or if you don’t mind some extra work in order to save some money, jump to the end of next step. Bear in mind that the minimum amount you can bridge using the native bridge is 0,002 ETH.

3. After getting your first ETH on chain, you can use the “Gas Station” to refill using different tokens, including native SOL from Solana. It is worth emphasizing that you NEED to bridge your SOL over to Eclipse — a different chain — so please do NOT try to send your SOL straight to your Eclipse address, otherwise you might lose your funds.

As I said before, if you don’t want to pay for ERC20 fees, you can always use one of the bridges available and there are several of them that will allow you to bridge ETH from other L2s to Eclipse. As I bridged from Scroll (just because I had “leftovers” there that I wanted to move), both Orbiter and Gas.zip failed but Owlto did the job perfectly and it cost me $1 instead of 13$ (let alone the fact that it was much quicker).

In order to bridge SOL, I used Hyperlane’s bridge which also allows you to send TIA and stTIA from Stride to Eclipse (after all Eclipse uses Celestia underneath, remember?).

Now you’re ready to explore Eclipse’s ecosystem. My suggestion would be for you to read its and eventually start by trading some tokens and adding liquidity at Invariant. But please do your own research and just try it.

Don’t forget to follow Eclipse Foundation, Hyperlane and Stride Zone on X to get all updates in realtime.