Light Clients & Relayers
An IBC connection consists of two core components:
Light Clients Lightweight replicas of another chain’s consensus state. These verify block headers and proofs efficiently, without requiring full node replication.
Relayers Off-chain processes that monitor events and forward packets between chains. They are incentivized through fees or rewards to maintain channel uptime and message delivery.
Benefits for Lylo and the Interchain Stack
Efficient Verification Light clients keep proofs compact and computation minimal, eliminating the need to run full archival nodes for each connected chain.
Secure Cross-Chain Messaging Trust-minimized architecture ensures message delivery and ordering without reliance on custodial bridges or wrapped assets.
Invisible Complexity for End Users Natural-language prompts in Lylo can trigger multi-chain actions with the same guarantees as local transactions — while users remain unaware of the underlying transport.
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