{"id":3595,"date":"2021-12-23T06:18:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T06:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zebpay.com\/au\/?post_type=glossary&#038;p=3595"},"modified":"2021-12-23T06:18:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T06:18:24","slug":"bridges","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/zebpay.com\/au\/glossary\/bridges","title":{"rendered":"Bridges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bridges are nothing but an invisible pathway that allows independent blockchains to communicate with each other. These bridges are the multi-taskers of the Crypto world. It works differently on the Polkadot network. They help in attaching parachains and the main Relay Chain to other external blockchain networks &#8211; Your Bitcoin and Ethereum for instance. They do so to help the collator nodes that are attached to the parachains, to assemble and keep a check of the transactions. Wait, before the question even pops in your head, let us tell you &#8211; The reason why collator nodes attach themselves is that they only communicate via a bridge and connect with external blockchains<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bridges are nothing but an invisible pathway that allows independent blockchains to communicate with each other. These bridges are the multi-taskers of the Crypto world. It works differently on the Polkadot network. They help in attaching parachains and the main Relay Chain to other external blockchain networks &#8211; Your Bitcoin and Ethereum for instance. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3595","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zebpay.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/3595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zebpay.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zebpay.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zebpay.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zebpay.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zebpay.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/3595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3596,"href":"https:\/\/zebpay.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/3595\/revisions\/3596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zebpay.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}