Positron is the first Electron bridge that demonstrates our zero-knowledge proofs and on-chain light clients implementations. The bridge is live between Goerli (Ethereum testnet) and the Near testnet. The bridge allows users to deposit “Electron Demo Tokens (EDT)” to a Goerli deposit contract and receive minted tokens on Near testnet.
<aside> 💡 The bridge implements on-chain light clients to verify cross-chain transactions and does not rely on a third-party service to verify the validity of the transaction.
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This setup eliminates all the trust assumptions and only relies on the security of the consensus of the underlying chains. This has been made possible due to the development of our in-house zk technology that generates Groth16 proofs for Ed25519 public keys (used by Near).
Join us to help build the future If you are interested in contributing to our work, our discord is now open to the public. You can help us test the protocol, translate our documentation or even contribute to the code.
Go to **Positron Bridge.**
Step 1: Connect the wallets
Connect your Metamask wallet and change the network to Goerli testnet.
Connect your MyNearWallet wallet to the NEAR testnet network.
Step 2: Faucet
Go to the Faucet tab.
If you don’t have Goerli ETH, click on the Get Ether button which will re-direct you to an external website where you can get some test ETH.