# Switchboard

> Switchboard is a sub-400ms cross-chain state synchronization platform. It uses Solana as a high-throughput coordination layer so a single contract or service can read and write state across 50+ EVM and non-EVM chains without bespoke bridge code per route.

Switchboard exposes a two-service architecture: a Customer API gateway (auth, rate limiting, request proxy) and a Core Engine (oracle, blockchain operations, cross-chain coordination, billing). Developers integrate once via SDK or HTTPS and ship to every supported chain.

## Docs

- [Home](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/): tagline, what-is answer block, problem/solution, features, architecture overview
- [Features](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/features/): the eight core capabilities in depth
- [Architecture](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/architecture/): 2-service topology, message lifecycle, pluggable verifiers, gas batching
- [Quickstart](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/quickstart/): install SDK, auth, first cross-chain read + write, deploy
- [FAQ](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/faq/): latency, open source, Solana liveness, self-hosting, verifier security
- [Glossary](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/glossary/): coordinator, finality clock, verifier, relayer pool, calldata batching
- [About](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/about/): team, mission, why Solana as the coordinator
- [Contact](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/contact/): reach the team

## Use cases

- [Use cases index](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/use-cases/): where a single cross-chain coordination layer changes the design
- [Agent cross-chain coordination](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/use-cases/agent-cross-chain-coordination/): give an autonomous agent one call to act across many chains
- [Cross-chain orderbook](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/use-cases/cross-chain-orderbook/): match on one chain, settle on many inside a latency budget
- [Omnichain state read](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/use-cases/omnichain-state-read/): read canonical state from 50+ chains through one call
- [Multi-chain governance](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/use-cases/multi-chain-governance/): vote once, enact everywhere, with an auditable trail
- [Unified liquidity routing](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/use-cases/unified-liquidity-routing/): route against liquidity everywhere as if it were one pool

## Comparisons

- [All comparisons](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/compare/): how Switchboard stacks up against the major cross-chain message layers
- [vs LayerZero](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/compare/layerzero/): shared finality clock and ~4x lower latency vs per-path DVN configuration
- [vs Wormhole](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/compare/wormhole/): one coordinator program vs a 19-guardian attestation set
- [vs Axelar](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/compare/axelar/): single-coordinator finality vs a Cosmos-style PoS validator network
- [vs Chainlink CCIP](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/compare/chainlink-ccip/): raw latency and self-host vs a managed institutional-grade DON
- [vs Hyperlane](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/compare/hyperlane/): in-box verified verifiers vs designing and running your own ISM

## Blog

- [Blog index](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/blog/): technical deep dives and honest competitor comparisons
- [Switchboard vs LayerZero: a latency-first comparison](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/blog/switchboard-vs-layerzero-latency/): benchmarking the OSS core against LayerZero on five corridors
- [Wormhole guardians vs the single-clock model](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/blog/wormhole-guardians-vs-single-clock/): two answers to the same cross-chain trust question
- [Building a real-time cross-chain orderbook with Switchboard](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/blog/building-cross-chain-orderbook/): a perp-style orderbook quoting on three chains and settling atomically
- [The case for Solana as a coordinator (and when it isn't)](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/blog/solana-as-coordinator-tradeoffs/): why the coordinator runs on Solana, what it costs, and when it's wrong
- [Gas math: why batched coordinator commits beat per-message bridges](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/blog/gas-math-batched-coordinator/): the batching economics, including when batching loses
- [A field guide to cross-chain finality models](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/blog/cross-chain-finality-field-guide/): the five things the industry means by "finality" and how Switchboard picks
- [Operating a two-service stack: what we learned in the first year](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/blog/operating-two-service-stack/): a year of running two services and a Solana program in production

## Feeds

- [RSS](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/rss.xml)
- [Sitemap](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/sitemap-index.xml)
- [Full content for LLMs](https://switchboard.cryptuon.com/llms-full.txt)

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