According to @jessepollak, the Base–Solana Bridge went live last week and enables the transfer of assets between the two chains, confirming operational availability for cross-chain activity (source: @jessepollak on X, Dec 11, 2025). According to @jessepollak, the Base team also published a technical deep dive detailing why the bridge was built, the architecture and design choices, and a roadmap for future improvements and decentralization (source: @jessepollak on X, Dec 11, 2025; Base Build thread on X referenced by @jessepollak). According to @jessepollak, these official notes indicate that traders can reference the deep dive for the bridge’s current design and upcoming decentralization milestones that may affect how assets move between Base and Solana (source: @jessepollak on X, Dec 11, 2025; Base Build thread on X referenced by @jessepollak).

According to @deanmlittle, their team optimized onchain programs down to the last compute unit using hand-rolled assembly and called for a polycentric, gatekeeper-free development roadmap to accelerate decentralized innovation. Source: twitter.com/deanmlittle/status/1960032665996050604 Compute Units are the Solana runtime’s meter of program execution, and users can attach a compute-unit price as a priority fee; lowering CU directly reduces fee spend for the same inclusion priority. Source: docs.solana.com Because transactions are constrained by compute budgets and overall block capacity, CU-efficient code fits more work into the same capacity, improving throughput efficiency for onchain activity. Source: docs.solana.com For traders on Solana DeFi, fewer CU per swap or arbitrage route lowers required priority fees to achieve target latency, directly impacting execution costs and slippage control. Source: docs.solana.com