The Garden Monthly: July 2025

TL;DR: Solana support dropped and we're officially chain-agnostic now, USDC swaps are basically free, and Act 3 might be closer than you think.

hey gardeners! 🌸

July saw $101,250,864 worth of volume coming from Bitcoin chain alone, serving a total of 3,242 orders and pushing our average ticket size to $32,824. Turns out Bitcoin really does play nice with everyone. Here's what went down in the garden this month.

Canon Event

Solana is live on Garden. Yeah, you read that right. What started with Starknet has turned into a full blown any chain revolution. EVM, non-EVM, your grandma's custom blockchain, we don't discriminate anymore. We're on a mission to make Bitcoin interoperable with any chain and asset in existence. Maximalists are shaking, but your Bitcoin is finally free to roam wherever it wants.

Big Items

• USDC swapping is now near-free on Garden across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Unichain, and Base. We're talking pennies, not dollars. Your stablecoin bridge nightmares are officially over.

• BNB and Botanix chains joined the party. That's 2 more places your Bitcoin can visit in under 30 seconds.
• Starknet just got easier, Xverse wallet support is live. No more excuses for not trying out those Cairo smart contracts.
• Added support for Leap wallet. If you know, you know. If you don't, you'll find out soon enough. 👀
• USDC is steadily climbing the volume charts, reaching among the top 3 assets traded in July on Garden.

Technical Updates

• Smart contract overhaul is in development with major integrator-focused improvements:
  • Initiate-on-behalf: Enables integrators to programmatically initiate orders using delegated signatures, removing user friction from the swap flow
• External filler support: Opening solver network to third-party fillers to increase liquidity depth and order matching speed
• Custom filler selection: Integrators will soon have granular control over filler and routing preferences
• Docs migration to Mintlify is complete. Global search that actually works, and you can test code directly in the docs. No more copy-paste-pray cycles. Just try it right there and see if it works.
• The tech team is heads-down on shipping the all-new Garden. Landing page, blogs, docs, app, everything's getting the glow-up treatment. Is it Act 3? By next month's update, you'll know.

Other Cool Stuff

• Ethereum turned 10 this month, and we celebrated by finally adding native ETH support. A proper birthday gift for the chain that started it all.

• Our own Dude won't shut up about making Garden THE Bapp on Citrea mainnet. Catch his latest rant on why Bitcoin apps are the future here.
• 1,090 fresh gardeners discovered the fastest way to move Bitcoin in July. That's 35 people per day choosing speed over suffering.
• Check out this adorable video we made at the interop/acc event in Berlin.

About Garden

Garden is the fastest Bitcoin bridge, enabling cross-chain Bitcoin swaps in as little as 30 seconds. It is built using an intents-based architecture with trustless settlements, ensuring zero custody risk for users.

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