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X Protocol

Products, built and planned

What X Protocol set out to build.

This page summarizes the products described in the X Protocol whitepaper. It describes plans from 2021 and 2022, not services you can use today.

Current status

The original X Protocol apps, previously reached at swap.x-protocol.com and metaverse.x-protocol.com, are no longer online. As of October 2026 those addresses redirect to this information site. Woop Media does not operate any of these products, and none of them can be used here.

01 · Infrastructure

X Cross-Chain Bridge

The whitepaper describes a two-way, trustless token bridge based on a relay-chain architecture.

  • 01Planned to let assets from other chains be minted 1:1 on Polkadot
  • 02A relay layer using light clients, Merkle Mountain Range proofs and relayer incentives
  • 03The roadmap lists a bridge launch for Q3 2021

02 · Markets

X Predict Market

The whitepaper describes a decentralized prediction market where users create and join predictions.

  • 01Automated market making through a Fixed Product Automated Market Maker (FPMM)
  • 02Users could propose predictions and trade prediction tokens
  • 03Proposal ownership was designed to be represented by an NFT

03 · Digital assets

NFT Marketplace

The whitepaper lists an NFT market layer as a planned part of the X Protocol economy.

  • 01Planned NFT minting and trading
  • 02Planned auctions, fragmentation and collateral lending
  • 03Cross-chain NFT mapping adapters described in the technology section

04 · Application portal

X-Metaverse

The whitepaper presents X-Metaverse as the project’s main goal: a decentralized Web3 metaverse with an on-chain economy.

  • 01Source-generated gameplay
  • 02A land economy model
  • 03Planned low-cost access for DApps on heterogeneous chains

05 · Identity

Decentralized Equal Identity

The whitepaper describes a planned cross-chain identity layer represented through virtual avatars.

  • 01Identity planned to be carried by a proprietary NFT
  • 02Virtual avatars as a social profile
  • 03The roadmap places identity work in 2022

06 · Coordination

Community tools

The whitepaper describes planned systems for governance, participation and community funding.

  • 01Token-holder voting and a referendum system
  • 02A social forum, community pages and tipping
  • 03A fundraising tool for creators and projects

Bridge architecture

How the whitepaper describes the bridge.

X Protocol relay-chain bridge workflow Assets move from a source chain through the relay layer and are deployed one-to-one on a destination chain. 01 · SOURCELock asset02 · RELAYVerify transfer03 · DESTINATIONDeploy 1:1

InitiateAssets enter the bridge from the source chain.

RelayThe relay-chain design processes the two-way transfer.

SettleAssets are deployed 1:1 on the destination chain.

X Protocol overview

Read what the whitepaper says about POT.

See how the whitepaper describes POT for settlement, tipping and governance, and what we found about its market status.

Explore what X Protocol builtRead the whitepaper