## Sovryn Announces Rango Exchange Integration for Seamless Cross-Chain Swaps
In Community Call #34, Sovryn unveiled a powerful new integration with **Rango Exchange**, a leading cross-chain DEX and bridge aggregator. This partnership is a major step in breaking down the barriers between Sovryn and the wider DeFi ecosystem, making it easier than ever for users to bring liquidity onto the platform. The call also covered crucial updates to the FastBTC bridge.
### Why Rango Exchange?
Previously, onboarding to Sovryn required multiple steps: acquiring assets on another chain, bridging them to Rootstock, and then swapping them on Sovryn. Rango Exchange streamlines this entire process into a single interface. Users can now initiate a swap from a native asset on another blockchain (e.g., ETH on Ethereum or BNB on Binance Smart Chain) and have it arrive as their desired asset (e.g., SOV or XUSD) in their Sovryn wallet, with Rango handling all the bridging and swapping in the background.
### How it Improves User Experience
This integration dramatically lowers the friction for new users. By abstracting away the complexity of cross-chain transactions, Rango makes Sovryn more accessible to a much broader audience of DeFi users who are accustomed to the seamless experience of DEX aggregators. This is a key part of the ‘connective tissue’ strategy to embed Sovryn across the multichain landscape.
### FastBTC Upgrades
The team also discussed recent improvements to the **FastBTC bridge**, the primary gateway for moving Bitcoin onto the Sovryn platform. Key updates include:
* **Enhanced Security:** Implementation of additional safeguards and monitoring to further secure the bridge’s multisig operations.
* **Reclaiming Feature:** A new feature that allows users to reclaim their funds in the rare event that a transaction gets stuck, improving the reliability and user-friendliness of the bridge.
* **Fee Reductions:** Ongoing work to optimize the bridge’s transaction processing to lower the fees for users.
Together, the Rango integration and FastBTC upgrades represent a concerted effort to make the Sovryn onboarding and user experience as smooth and secure as possible, paving the way for the next wave of users.