# Integrating Garden with Aztec for Privacy-Preserving Cross-chain Swaps

**URL:** <https://forum.aztec.network/t/integrating-garden-with-aztec-for-privacy-preserving-cross-chain-swaps/7569>\
**Category:** Aztec\
**Tags:** rfgp, bridge\
**Created:** [March 21, 2025, 12:29pm UTC](https://forum.aztec.network/t/integrating-garden-with-aztec-for-privacy-preserving-cross-chain-swaps/7569 "2025-03-21T12:29:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Punkaj\_garden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e57/32.png) [@Punkaj\_garden](https://forum.aztec.network/u/Punkaj_garden)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 12:29pm UTC](https://forum.aztec.network/t/integrating-garden-with-aztec-for-privacy-preserving-cross-chain-swaps/7569/1 "2025-03-21T12:29:06Z")

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**Contact Details**  
Email: [pankaj@hashira.io](mailto:pankaj@hashira.io)  
Telegram: pankajshukla1

**Summary**

Garden proposes integrating its intents-based Bitcoin bridge with Aztec to enable privacy-preserving cross-chain swaps. The integration will leverage Garden’s intents based trustless settlement architecture to provide seamless, secure, and scalable swaps between Bitcoin/EVM chains and assets on Aztec. This collaboration will enhance interoperability across Ethereum’s ecosystem while maintaining zero custody risk for users.

The project aims to deploy a functional demo on Aztec’s testnet by June 2025, showcasing cross-chain swaps and a streamlined user experience. Garden’s proven infrastructure, which has processed over $1.16 billion in swaps on the mainnet (live on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Berachain and Bitcoin), positions it as the ideal partner for this initiative.

Mainnet dApp here: [https://garden.finance/](https://new.garden.finance/)

Architecture overview:

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/aztec/original/2X/d/d1a13d2e75f0dc3f3a3f9048f7348febc7a32fe6.jpeg)

**Start and End Date**  
Start Date: April 1, 2025  
End Date: June 30, 2025

**About Us**

Garden is the fastest Bitcoin bridge to EVM that enables EVM to EVM bridging as well, built using intents-based architecture with trustless settlements. Our contracts are audited by Trail of Bits, ensuring top-tier security.

The team comprises Web3 veterans with extensive expertise in interoperability:

- [Jaz Gulati](https://x.com/jzgulati), ex-product lead at Ren Protocol, scaled Ren from zero to $12 Billion in volume. Co-founder of Catalog, a cross-chain protocol backed by Amber Group, Multicoin Capital, and BlockTower Capital.

- [Susruth Nadimpalli](https://www.linkedin.com/in/susruth-nadimpalli/), ex-technical lead at Ren Protcool and Rook (f.k.a. KeeperDAO), an MEV pioneer that bootstrapped a treasury of $100M within 6 months. Co-founder of Catalog.

**Details**  
Garden will build a bridge to Aztec L2 enabling private swaps to Aztec assets, enabling Aztec to/fro EVM L1, L2s and Bitcoin movement. The integration will utilize Garden’s HTLCs for trustless cross-chain swaps.

We have created a testnet dApp to showcase cross-chain swap experience Garden enables while moving assets across Ethereum Sepolia, Base Sepolia, Arbitrum Sepolia, Citrea Testnet and Monad Testnet here: [https://testnet.garden.finance/](https://testnet.garden.finance/)

Technical hurdles that needs to be overcome: since the execution environment are slightly different for Aztec, the technical team will need to spend time on understanding how to enable private/public swap execution and covering gas cost for users.

**Grant Amount Requested**

$50,000

**Grant Budget Rationale**

The requested budget will cover development costs associated with deploying HTLC contracts, integrating solvers with Aztec’s infrastructure, updating the front-end UI, and conducting security audits.

**Helpful links:**

- Website:[https://garden.finance](https://garden.finance)

- Live dApp (v1):[https://app.garden.finance](https://app.garden.finance)

- Live dApp (v2): [https://new.garden.finance/](https://new.garden.finance/)

- Documentation:[https://docs.garden.finance](https://docs.garden.finance)

- Dune:[https://dune.com/garden\_finance/gardenfinance](https://dune.com/garden_finance/gardenfinance)

_Please note: we are submitting this proposal to gauge interest, and a non-technical team member writing it; if there is interest from the Aztec team to enable native Bitcoin along with EVM L1&L2s cross-chain swaps, we would be interested in creating more in-depth proposal after taking a deep-dive at the tech stack._