Research corpus InteroperabilityBLC-STUDY-0720

Stargate: unified liquidity pools for cross-chain transfers

Stargate publishes pools of a shared asset on several chains, so a transfer debits one pool and credits another, with a messaging layer underneath.

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Authors: Stargate
Date: 2022
Publisher: Stargate
Version: Source cited by the 2022 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0720
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Stargate publishes pools of a shared asset on several chains, so a transfer debits one pool and credits another, with a messaging layer underneath.

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Official source — Stargate docs
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Author–date

Stargate (2022). Stargate: unified liquidity pools for cross-chain transfers. Stargate. https://stargateprotocol.gitbook.io/stargate

BibTeX

@techreport{stargatefinance2022,
  title = {Stargate: unified liquidity pools for cross-chain transfers},
  author = {Stargate},
  year = {2022},
  institution = {Stargate},
  url = {https://stargateprotocol.gitbook.io/stargate},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/stargate-finance}
}

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TI  - Stargate: unified liquidity pools for cross-chain transfers
AU  - Stargate
PY  - 2022
PB  - Stargate
UR  - https://stargateprotocol.gitbook.io/stargate
N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
ER  -

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Source status: Official source
Use status: Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.
Rights: Official external source only
Training and retrieval: Not permitted from this site. There is no rights-cleared full text to retrieve or to train on.

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