Last Updated: November 4, 2026
The top cross-chain bridges by volume in the last 30 days are Circle’s CCTP, LayerZero and Across, according to DefiLlama’s bridge dashboard. In the 30 days to November 3, 2026, Circle (CCTP plus Circle Gateway) moved about $17.6 billion, LayerZero about $12.5 billion and Across about $5.7 billion, with Relay ($4.65 billion) and Tether’s USDT0 ($2.89 billion) completing the top five.
Cross-chain asset transfers remain one of the busiest corners of blockchain activity. DefiLlama counted $48.8 billion in total bridge volume over those 30 days, $12.0 billion over the last seven days and $1.67 billion in the last 24 hours, as read on November 3, 2026 at about 13:00 UTC. Stablecoin rails now dominate: Circle’s CCTP, which moves native USDC, and USDT0 together moved about $20.5 billion in the period.
Key facts (DefiLlama, 30 days to November 3, 2026):
- Number one: Circle (CCTP plus Gateway), about $17.6 billion across 17 chains tracked.
- Largest messaging network: LayerZero, about $12.5 billion across 113 chains tracked, not counting LayerZero-based products such as USDT0 and Stargate, which DefiLlama lists separately.
- Largest intent bridge: Across, about $5.7 billion; together with Relay and deBridge, intent bridges moved about $10.5 billion.
- Biggest change since July 2024: Across led this ranking in July 2024 with $1.05 billion; Circle’s CCTP has since grown about 19 times and moved to first place.
- Security: DefiLlama classes about $701 million of 2026’s recorded crypto hack losses, through November 2, as bridge and cross-chain exploits, led by the Kelp DAO rsETH bridge (about $292 million, April 18, 2026).
Which Cross-Chain Bridges Have the Most Volume Right Now?
The ranking below lists the ten largest bridge protocols by 30-day volume on DefiLlama’s dashboard as of November 3, 2026. Chain counts are the chains DefiLlama tracks for each protocol, which can be fewer than the protocol supports.
| Rank | Bridge | 30-day volume | Chains tracked | How it works |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Circle (CCTP + Gateway) | $17.62 billion | 17 | Burns USDC on the source chain and mints native USDC on the destination chain |
| 2 | LayerZero | $12.48 billion | 113 | Messaging network; each app picks the verifier networks (DVNs) that check its messages |
| 3 | Across | $5.67 billion | 28 | Intent bridge; relayers fill transfers from their own capital and are repaid after verification |
| 4 | Relay | $4.65 billion | 78 | Solver-filled transfers between chains |
| 5 | USDT0 | $2.89 billion | 23 | Tether’s omnichain USDT, built on LayerZero |
| 6 | Hyperliquid | $1.60 billion | 2 | Hyperliquid’s own bridge |
| 7 | Chainlink (CCIP) | $1.32 billion | 76 | Messages checked by a committee of independent node operators |
| 8 | Portal (Wormhole) | $827 million | 44 | 19 Guardian nodes; 13 signatures make a message valid |
| 9 | Lighter | $700 million | n/a | Lighter’s own bridge |
| 10 | Optimism Foundation | $661 million | n/a | OP Mainnet’s canonical bridge |
Volume measures how much value moved, not how safe a bridge is. DefiLlama also lists some products built on the same infrastructure separately, such as USDT0 and Stargate on LayerZero, so a protocol’s full footprint can be larger than its own row. Our guide to what DefiLlama is and how to read it explains how its dashboards are built.
Why stablecoin bridges lead the ranking
Most cross-chain volume in 2026 is stablecoins moving between Ethereum, its Layer 2 networks and other major chains. Circle’s CCTP does not lock USDC in a pool and issue a wrapped copy; it burns USDC on one chain and mints the same amount of native USDC on another, so the token that arrives is the one Circle issues. USDT0 does the same job for Tether’s USDT on LayerZero’s token standard. Together the two moved about $20.5 billion in the 30 days to November 3, 2026, more than LayerZero’s own row.
What changed since July 2024?
When this page was first published in July 2024, it reported, citing DefiLlama, that Across led the 30-day ranking with $1.05 billion, followed by Circle CCTP with $943 million and Stargate with $842 million.
Blockchainreporter’s comparison of those figures with the November 2026 snapshot shows how far the market has moved:
| Bridge | 30-day volume, July 2024 (as reported on this page) | 30-day volume to November 3, 2026 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Across | $1.05 billion | $5.67 billion | about 5.4 times |
| Circle CCTP | $943 million | $17.62 billion (CCTP + Gateway) | about 19 times |
| Stargate | $842 million | $477 million | down about 43% |
| IBC | $535 million | $146 million | down about 73% |
| Arbitrum Bridge | $414 million | $446 million (Arbitrum Foundation) | up about 8% |
| deBridge | $368 million | $218 million | down about 41% |
Orbiter Finance ($479 million), Synapse ($385 million), zkBridge ($318 million) and Connext ($286 million), all in the July 2024 top ten, do not appear among the bridges recorded in our November 3, 2026 snapshot. Since 2024 and 2025, three trends reshaped the ranking: native stablecoin rails replaced wrapped tokens, messaging networks such as LayerZero became the default for token issuers, and intent bridges took most fast user transfers. Our blockchain interoperability guide explains each model.
Mid-Tier Performers
Below the top ten, DefiLlama’s November 3, 2026 snapshot shows a group of bridges that each moved between about $100 million and $530 million in 30 days:
- Mayan: about $528 million across 13 chains tracked.
- Stargate: about $477 million across 49 chains tracked, a LayerZero-based bridge that ranked third in July 2024.
- Polygon Bridge: about $458 million, Polygon’s canonical bridge.
- Arbitrum Foundation: about $446 million, the canonical bridge to Arbitrum.
- deBridge: about $218 million across 17 chains tracked, an intent bridge that reports a median settlement time of 1.96 seconds.
- Base Bridge: about $210 million, the canonical bridge to Base.
- IBC: about $146 million across 79 chains tracked, the Cosmos ecosystem’s native Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol.
- Coinbase Bridge: about $120 million.
Some well-known interoperability networks carry far less direct bridge volume because they mainly serve token issuers and specific chain pairs. In the same snapshot, Hyperlane moved about $23 million across 86 chains tracked, Axelar Network about $14 million across 21, and Squid about $7 million across 23. Canonical bridges such as Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism and Base are the official routes of the networks they serve, which makes them the reference route for moving assets onto those chains.
How Safe Are the Top Bridges? Security Record
Bridges hold large pools of funds or control minting on other chains, so they are a frequent target. A survey published in Communications of the ACM counts around $3 billion in losses from blockchain bridge exploits before 2026, and DefiLlama classes about $701 million of the losses it recorded in 2026, through November 2, as bridge and cross-chain exploits. Our guide to blockchain bridges and cross-chain security issues covers the attack types.
The largest bridge exploits
| Bridge | Date | Amount | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ronin Bridge | March 23, 2022 | about $624 million | Attackers obtained 5 of 9 validator keys; the FBI linked the theft to North Korea’s Lazarus Group |
| Poly Network | August 10, 2021 | about $611 million | Nearly all funds were returned within 15 days |
| BNB Chain bridge | October 6, 2022 | about $570 million | About $433 million was frozen |
| Wormhole (Portal) | February 2, 2022 | about $326 million | The stolen amount was replaced |
| Liquid Network | September 6, 2026 | about $320 million | A bug let an attacker mint about 4,000 unbacked L-BTC; about 85% was returned the next day, according to TRM Labs |
| Kelp DAO rsETH bridge | April 18, 2026 | about $292 million | A forged message passed a LayerZero-based setup that relied on a single verifier |
Smaller 2026 incidents show the risk is ongoing: the Cysic Foundation said an attacker minted 10 million CYS tokens through its bridge on October 17, 2026, and Kelp DAO’s developer sued LayerZero Labs in September 2026 over the April exploit, which LayerZero disputes.
Security record of the top bridges
- Circle CCTP: no pool of locked USDC to drain, because USDC is burned and reminted; the trust sits with Circle as the issuer.
- LayerZero: security depends on the verifier networks each app chooses. After the Kelp exploit, Decrypt reported that LayerZero stopped supporting single-verifier setups for new deployments.
- Across: its website states that no user funds have been lost.
- Chainlink CCIP: by default a committee of 16 independent node operators checks each message, according to Decrypt; Kelp DAO, Kraken and Lombard moved to Chainlink after the April 2026 exploit.
- Wormhole: exploited for about $326 million in February 2022, a loss that was replaced; messages now need 13 of 19 Guardian signatures.
- deBridge: its website reports zero security incidents since launch and more than 26 audits.
These are each protocol’s own statements or outlet reports, not guarantees. Wrapped tokens add a further risk: if the bridge that issued them fails, the tokens can lose their backing.
How to choose a bridge for a transfer
Blockchainreporter’s checklist for picking a route:
- Use the native route when one exists: CCTP for USDC, USDT0 for omnichain USDT, or the network’s canonical bridge.
- Check the verification model: how many independent parties must approve a message, and whether a single key or verifier can release funds.
- Check the incident history on DefiLlama’s hacks dashboard and the bridge’s own post-mortems.
- Confirm the token you receive is the canonical version on the destination chain, not an unfamiliar wrapped copy.
- Send a small test amount first, then the full transfer.
- Type the bridge’s address yourself or use a bookmark, since fake bridge sites are a common phishing method.
- Revoke token approvals you no longer need once the transfer is done.
For the newer intent model behind Across, Relay and deBridge, see our explainer on Router Protocol’s cross-chain intent framework and the wider shift to cross-chain intents, and for a trustless alternative between two chains, our guide to atomic swaps.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the top cross-chain bridges by volume in the last 30 days?
According to DefiLlama, the top cross-chain bridges by volume in the 30 days to November 3, 2026 were Circle’s CCTP with Circle Gateway at about $17.6 billion, LayerZero at about $12.5 billion and Across at about $5.7 billion. Relay, with about $4.65 billion, and Tether’s USDT0, with about $2.89 billion, completed the top five on the bridge dashboard.
What is the largest crypto bridge right now?
By 30-day volume, the largest is Circle’s Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol, which together with Circle Gateway moved about $17.6 billion in the 30 days to November 3, 2026, according to DefiLlama. LayerZero is the largest general messaging network, with about $12.5 billion across 113 tracked chains, before counting products built on it such as USDT0 and Stargate.
How much volume do cross-chain bridges handle?
DefiLlama counted about $48.8 billion in cross-chain bridge volume in the 30 days to November 3, 2026, about $12.0 billion over seven days and about $1.67 billion in the latest 24 hours. Stablecoins account for much of it: Circle’s CCTP and USDT0 alone moved about $20.5 billion in that 30 day period.
What is Circle CCTP?
CCTP, Circle’s Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol, moves USDC between blockchains by burning it on the source chain and minting the same amount of native USDC on the destination chain. Because no pool of locked tokens backs a wrapped copy, users receive the USDC that Circle itself issues. Many wallets and bridges use CCTP underneath when they move USDC between networks.
Is LayerZero a bridge?
LayerZero is a cross-chain messaging network rather than a single bridge. Applications use it to send messages and tokens between chains, and each app chooses the verifier networks, called DVNs, that must confirm its messages. Bridges and tokens built on it, such as Stargate and Tether’s USDT0, appear as separate rows on DefiLlama’s bridge dashboard.
Which crypto bridge is the safest?
No bridge is risk free. Native routes such as Circle’s CCTP for USDC and the canonical bridges of networks like Arbitrum, Base, Optimism and Polygon avoid third-party wrapped tokens. Across says no user funds have been lost and deBridge reports no security incidents since launch, but these are the projects’ own statements, so checking verification design and incident history still matters.
What was the biggest bridge hack?
The largest bridge exploit on record is the Ronin Bridge hack of March 23, 2022, when attackers obtained five of nine validator keys and took about $624 million; the FBI linked it to North Korea’s Lazarus Group. Poly Network lost about $611 million in August 2021, though nearly all of it was returned within 15 days.
How does DefiLlama measure bridge volume?
DefiLlama’s bridge dashboard tracks the value moved through each bridge protocol on the chains it covers and shows totals for the last day, seven days and 30 days. It counts usage, not safety, and it may track fewer chains than a protocol supports. Some products built on the same infrastructure, such as Stargate and USDT0 on LayerZero, are listed separately.
Why is Across no longer first?
Across has grown since July 2024, when it led this ranking with about $1.05 billion in 30 days, to about $5.7 billion in the 30 days to November 3, 2026. Circle’s CCTP grew much faster, from $943 million to about $17.6 billion, as native USDC transfers took over, and LayerZero’s messaging network also moved ahead.
What is an intent-based bridge?
An intent-based bridge lets a user sign an order describing the outcome they want, such as receiving USDC on Base for USDC sent on Arbitrum. Independent relayers or solvers fill the order from their own funds within seconds and are repaid on the source chain after verification. Across, Relay and deBridge are the largest intent bridges by volume in 2026.
Data sources: DefiLlama bridges dashboard (30 days to November 3, 2026, read at about 13:00 UTC) and hacks database (through November 2, 2026), Across, Wormhole and deBridge official sites, Communications of the ACM, TRM Labs, Decrypt and CoinDesk. Checked November 4, 2026.
