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Hyperlane's cross-chain message passing for its HYPER airdrop employs a modular architecture with mailboxes, relayers, and validators, enabling secure, permissionless transfers across 150+ chains. Messages are attested and delivered efficiently, supporting token claims and bridging on Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, and BNB.
Latency optimizations include event-driven routing, pluggable relayers for speed/cost trade-offs, and Tenderly Node RPC for auto-scaling and low error rates (0.1%). This achieved sub-2-second end-to-end confirmations, handling 50K+ bridge transactions in 4 hours without downtime.
User experience benefits from seamless, real-time interactions: instant airdrop claims via the Hyperlane Claim Portal, abstracted complexities, and minimal friction in multi-chain deployments, fostering intuitive interoperability and rapid value capture for early adopters.