Base Solana Bridge has been a total flop show

Base recently launched the Base-Solana bridge, allowing Solana tokens to be bridged over to the Base network. Yet so far, the bridge has only seen about 60 transactions. Jesse Pollak, Head of Base, said the team has been trying to reach out to projects in the Solana ecosystem, but not everyone is interested. Jesse do admits there has been communication breakdown.

Also, the Base team did not set up a single Solana partner for launch and did not even talk to any one in Solana foundation for marketing so nobody even knows about the bridge.

Solana co-founder Toly responded that only if Base apps migrate to Solana and actually run on Solana will it truly benefit Solana developers.

Announcing a new bridge between Base and Solana.

For a better global economy to work, it needs to be interoperable and connected, not isolated and closed. pic.twitter.com/Qn2SqdSeyk

— Base (@base) September 15, 2025

This bridge went live on September 15th 2025 and not a lot of people are actually using it.

Here is the flow.

Lock SOL/SPL → (Optional) Pay for relay → Validators approve → Mint + execute on Base

Base to Solana

Flow: Burn ERC20 SOL on Base → Wait for finalization → Generate Merkle proof → Execute on Solana