Qubic and Solana: A Technical Breakthrough by Studio Avicenne

The Parisian studio Avicenne, already recognized for its pioneering work with a token bridge that preserves transfer fees via Wormhole, is now introducing a crucial cross-chain infrastructure between Qubic and Solana. This development represents a significant advancement in connecting two previously isolated blockchain ecosystems.

A Web3 Studio with Strong Credentials

Founded five years ago in Paris, Avicenne has established itself as a discreet but decisive player in blockchain infrastructure. The studio has since expanded internationally, now operating from Paris and Dubai. It designs and deploys smart contract architectures, cross-chain solutions, and full-stack Web3 products, with a focus on security, scalability, and user experience.

Among its notable accomplishments are Usual, Lingo, and Linea (Consensys), three projects accumulating millions of users and several billion dollars in TVL (Total Value Locked). The team, composed of senior engineers, has deployed infrastructures across all major chains: Ethereum, Solana, but also EVM-compatible networks (Ethereum Virtual Machine) and beyond.

A World First: Bridging a Token with Transfer Fees Intact

In March 2025, Avicenne achieved a rare technical feat in collaboration with Lingo and the teams at Wormhole: transferring a token from Base (Coinbase’s Ethereum layer 2) to Solana while preserving the transfer fees — a rare technical achievement, as these mechanisms are normally lost during bridging.

Why is This a Technical Challenge?

Traditional bridges like Wormhole natively handle only standard tokens. Tokens with advanced tokenomics, such as transfer fees, automatic burn, or redistribution mechanisms, pose a problem: their internal economic logic is incompatible with classic bridge protocols, which “wrap” the original token in a generic wrapper.

Avicenne modified the very core of the Wormhole protocol to allow these mechanisms to function natively after bridging. This feat, documented in a LinkedIn article, paved the way for richer interoperability, capable of respecting the economic subtleties of modern tokens.

What this means for the user: projects relying on complex tokenomics (redistribution to holders, transaction taxes to fund development, etc.) can now expand across multiple chains without losing their economic DNA.

The Bridge: Connecting an Emerging Ecosystem to Solana

Building on this expertise, Avicenne is now constructing the Qubic Bridge, a cross-chain infrastructure between Qubic and Solana. This is a first: Qubic, a blockchain network focused on distributed computing and artificial intelligence, had until now not been connected to the dominant DeFi ecosystems.

What is Qubic?

Qubic ($QUBIC) is a layer 1 protocol designed to execute complex on-chain computations, with consensus based on Proof-of-Work and an architecture optimized for AI and decentralized machine learning. Unlike Ethereum or Solana, which prioritize financial smart contracts, Qubic targets computational use cases: simulations, machine learning, decentralized oracles.

The network remains poorly integrated with traditional DeFi infrastructures, limiting its adoption by developers and multi-chain protocol users.

Why Bridge Qubic to Solana?

Solana (SOL) has become one of the highest-performance blockchains for DeFi, NFTs, and mainstream applications, thanks to its high throughput (several thousand transactions per second) and near-zero fees. Connecting Qubic to Solana would allow:

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  Access to Solana liquidity: QUBIC holders could trade, stake, or provide liquidity on DEXs (Decentralized Exchanges) such as Raydium, Orca, or Jupiter.
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  Integration of AI/DePIN use cases: Qubic could become a computation engine for Solana protocols in decentralized artificial intelligence (DePIN, Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks) or advanced oracles thanks to UPoW.
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  Boost cross-chain adoption: Solana developers would gain access to a powerful off-chain computation layer, while Qubic would gain visibility and real utility.

Technical Architecture: Security, Composability, Interoperability

The Qubic Solana bridge relies on a modular and open-source architecture, designed by Avicenne to guarantee security, composability, and interoperability. It adopts a semi-automated Lock/Mint model, where bots process most transactions according to a deterministic and auditable Policy Engine, while sensitive cases are validated by human operators within a multi-signature quorum. This approach ensures a unique balance between automation, transparency, and human governance - in line with Qubic’s philosophy.

1. Enhanced Security

Bridges are historically the most attacked targets in the Web3 ecosystem (Ronin, Wormhole, Poly Network). Avicenne therefore designed an architecture focused on operation security and infrastructure resilience:

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  Multi-sig and Computors quorum for all critical transactions.
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  Isolated bots in multi-cloud environments (VPC) with keys managed via HSM/KMS.
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  Slashing and bonding mechanisms to hold operators accountable.
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  Independent audits and fully open-source code to ensure verifiability. In case of anomaly, a quarantine or rollback mechanism allows safe suspension of operations.

2. Native Composability

A bridge is useless if the transferred tokens are not natively usable in their destination ecosystem. Many bridges produce wrapped tokens incompatible with major DeFi protocols, creating friction and limiting adoption.

The bridge makes QUBIC tokens natively usable within the Solana ecosystem.

Thanks to a Rust Mint/Burn program compliant with SPL standards (Metaplex, Token-2022), bridged QUBICs can interact directly with major DeFi protocols: AMM, lending, staking without intermediate wrapping or compatibility loss. Each transaction retains its economic integrity and attestation history, ensuring transparent tracking of inter-chain flows.

3. Extended Interoperability

A bridge is not a fixed product. Protocols evolve, new chains emerge, user needs change. The architecture must adapt without requiring a complete overhaul.

The Qubic Bridge was designed with a modular architecture inspired by best practices from Wormhole, but custom-built:

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  Modular relayers allowing compatibility additions with other networks (Base, Polygon, Arbitrum).
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  Independent Policy Engine facilitating validation rule updates without full redeployment.
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  Open-source to encourage community contributions and audits.

The long-term goal: make Qubic a multi-chain compute hub, where every asset or piece of data can flow securely and governably, without depending on a central operator.

Market Context: The Rise of Bridges and Cross-Chain Solutions

The cross-chain solutions market is booming. According to on-chain data from DefiLlama (October 2025), bridges total around $8 to $10 billion in TVL, despite historical hacks that cooled some investors.

Dominant players:

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  Wormhole: $2.5B TVL, multi-chain (Solana, Ethereum, Sui, Aptos).
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  Stargate (LayerZero): $1.8B TVL, EVM-focused.
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  Axelar, Synapse, Celer: specialized solutions for specific ecosystems.

The challenge: each new bridge has to prove its security, liquidity, and speed to attract users. Avicenne’s track record (no known security incidents, 9-figure TVL projects) gives it rare credibility.

Comparison: while most bridges limit themselves to generically “wrapping” an asset or message, Avicenne designs an architecture capable of natively integrating the transferred objects’ logic (attestations, validation rules, signatures, execution constraints), rather than just a standardized transfer.

What This Means for the Crypto Ecosystem

The Bridge illustrates a key trend: the specialization of blockchains and the need for seamless interoperability. Rather than centralizing everything on a single chain (Ethereum, Solana), the future seems multi-chain, with specialized networks (compute, DeFi, gaming) connected by robust bridges.

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  For Qubic: access to liquidity and Solana ecosystem, visibility boost.
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  For Solana: enrichment of use cases with an AI/DePIN compute layer.
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  For developers: a technical example of an advanced, open-source bridge that could inspire other projects.

Bridges become the critical infrastructure enabling these specializations to coexist and reinforce each other.

An Ambitious Technical Bet

The Solana Bridge continues the technical innovation led by Avicenne. By connecting a distributed compute network (Qubic) to one of the most dynamic DeFi ecosystems (Solana), the Parisian studio bets on a future that is multi-chain and specialized, where each blockchain plays a precise role in a global infrastructure.

Its success will depend on technical execution, the quality of partnerships, and adoption by the Qubic and Solana communities. But the project well illustrates the challenges and opportunities of developing cross-chain infrastructures in 2025: growing technical complexity, maximum security requirements, and the need for a holistic approach combining technology, product, and distribution.

But with a solid track record and rare expertise in cross-chain, Avicenne holds the cards to succeed in this new technical breakthrough.