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**Rainbow Bridge release doc for PR Agency**

**Announcement**

- Desired announcement date is 3/31

**Timeline of events**

1. Bridge went live on 3/15 (without Front End)
2. Faucet - ability to create NEAR wallet for free - went live on MainNet on 3/15
3. Bridge Front End added on 3/18
4. AMM release - went live on MainNet on (3/23?)
5. NEAR Wallet - ability to see assets in NEAR wallet 3/16 (unable to transfer them yet) 
6. Wonderland (Farming Yield) TBD

**Goal of the Bridge release:**

- Attract Ethereum Ecosystem users and deelopers to check out NEAR Ecosystem and create a NEAR Wallet
- Inspire Ethereum Ecosystem users to transfer their assets, use AMM and dApps on NEAR

**Why this is a big deal?**

- Bridge is fully permissionless (first of its kind)
- allows to move assets between 2 distinct ecosystems 
- allows Ethereum users to transfer their assets to NEAR and to interact with NEAR Ecosystem by taking advantage of speed, cheap transactions, and scalability of NEAR Protocol

**Desired publications:**

- Coindesk
- Decrypt
- Ethereum related Newsletters
    - The Defiant
    - Spencer Noon
    - Ryan Sean Adams
    - EthHub
    - Week In Ethereum News
    - Bankless (David Hoffman)
    - First Edition

**Assets**

- Alex's write up https://hackmd.io/@avshevchenko/Hk40Q_PQ_ (picture needs to be replaced)
![](https://i.imgur.com/8loISSE.png)
- Bridge URL https://ethereum.bridgetonear.org/
- Bridge Analytics URL https://duneanalytics.com/zavodil/rainbow-bridge
- Fauset (https://faucet.paras.id/)
- Bridge upgradability and governance plan (https://gov.near.org/t/bridge-upgradability-and-governance-plan/633/3)
- ETH-NEAR Rainbow Bridge (https://near.org/blog/eth-near-rainbow-bridge/)
