Protocol has bridge surface

Axelar Network's assessment for RD-F-147 — scored green on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

YES — Axelar IS a cross-chain bridge. AxelarGateway deployed on ~60 EVM chains; Cosmos L1 (axelar-dojo-1) routes and verifies messages; InterchainTokenService (0xB5FB4BE02232B1bBA4dC8f81dc24C26980dE9e3C) enables canonical token bridging. TVL $144.73M. has_bridge_surface: true, is_a_bridge: true per profile.

Sources #

Docs
Axelar Network documentationdocs.axelar.dev — Axelar GMP and token bridging across 80+ chainsretrieved 2026-05-17
Internal
Axelar profile bridge flags.research/protocols/axelar/00-profile.md §7 — is_a_bridge: true, has_bridge_surface: trueretrieved 2026-05-17

Methodology #

Determine whether the protocol has a bridge surface (its own bridge or a bridge-operated dependency for routing/minting).

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rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol axelar factor RD-F-147 score green collected_at 2026-05-16 21:57:49