The Parisian studio Avicenne, already the author of a world first with the token bridge with transfer fees via Wormhole, is now tackling the cross-chain infrastructure between Qubic and Solana. A major advance to connect two previously isolated ecosystems.
Traditional bridges like Wormhole natively handle only standard tokens. Tokens with advanced tokenomics, such as transfer fees, automatic burn, or redistribution mechanisms, pose a problem: their internal economic logic is incompatible with classic bridge protocols, which “wrap” the original token in a generic wrapper.
Avicenne modified the very core of the Wormhole protocol to allow these mechanisms to function natively after bridging. This feat, documented in a LinkedIn article, paved the way for richer interoperability, capable of respecting the economic subtleties of modern tokens.
What this means for the user: projects relying on complex tokenomics (redistribution to holders, transaction taxes to fund development, etc.) can now expand across multiple chains without losing their economic DNA.
Building on this expertise, Avicenne is now constructing the Qubic Bridge, a cross-chain infrastructure between Qubic and Solana. This is a first: Qubic, a blockchain network focused on distributed computing and artificial intelligence, had until now not been connected to the dominant DeFi ecosystems.
Qubic ($QUBIC) is a layer 1 protocol designed to execute complex on-chain computations, with consensus based on Proof-of-Work and an architecture optimized for AI and decentralized machine learning. Unlike Ethereum or Solana, which prioritize financial smart contracts, Qubic targets computational use cases: simulations, machine learning, decentralized oracles.
The network remains poorly integrated with traditional DeFi infrastructures, limiting its adoption by developers and multi-chain protocol users.
Solana (SOL) has become one of the highest-performance blockchains for DeFi, NFTs, and mainstream applications, thanks to its high throughput (several thousand transactions per second) and near-zero fees. Connecting Qubic to Solana would allow:
The Qubic ↔ Solana bridge relies on a modular and open-source architecture, designed by Avicenne to guarantee security, composability, and interoperability.
It adopts a semi-automated Lock/Mint model, where bots process most transactions according to a deterministic and auditable Policy Engine, while sensitive cases are validated by human operators within a multi-signature quorum.
This approach ensures a unique balance between automation, transparency, and human governance — in line with Qubic’s philosophy.
Bridges are historically the most attacked targets in the Web3 ecosystem (Ronin, Wormhole, Poly Network).
Avicenne therefore designed an architecture focused on operation security and infrastructure resilience:
A bridge is useless if the transferred tokens are not natively usable in their destination ecosystem. Many bridges produce wrapped tokens incompatible with major DeFi protocols, creating friction and limiting adoption.
The bridge makes QUBIC tokens natively usable within the Solana ecosystem.
Thanks to a Rust Mint/Burn program compliant with SPL standards (Metaplex, Token-2022), bridged QUBICs can interact directly with major DeFi protocols: AMM, lending, staking without intermediate wrapping or compatibility loss.
Each transaction retains its economic integrity and attestation history, ensuring transparent tracking of inter-chain flows.
A bridge is not a fixed product. Protocols evolve, new chains emerge, user needs change. The architecture must adapt without requiring a complete overhaul.
The Qubic Bridge was designed with a modular architecture inspired by best practices from Wormhole, but custom-built:
The long-term goal: make Qubic a multi-chain compute hub, where every asset or piece of data can flow securely and governably, without depending on a central operator.
Comparison: while most bridges limit themselves to generically “wrapping” an asset or message, Avicenne designs an architecture capable of natively integrating the transferred objects’ logic (attestations, validation rules, signatures, execution constraints), rather than just a standardized transfer.
The Bridge illustrates a key trend: the specialization of blockchains and the need for seamless interoperability. Rather than centralizing everything on a single chain (Ethereum, Solana), the future seems multi-chain, with specialized networks (compute, DeFi, gaming) connected by robust bridges.
Bridges become the critical infrastructure enabling these specializations to coexist and reinforce each other.
The Solana Bridge continues the technical innovation led by Avicenne. By connecting a distributed compute network (Qubic) to one of the most dynamic DeFi ecosystems (Solana), the Parisian studio bets on a future that is multi-chain and specialized, where each blockchain plays a precise role in a global infrastructure.
