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What is a canonical bridge?

A canonical bridge is how your Kaspa enters and exits the layer 2.

Simplified, it is an address owned and controlled by the L2, creating a bridgedKAS within the L2 instance, backed 1-1 on the baselayer. Source: research.kas.pa

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