Smart Routing Address

How our Smart Routing Address Turns the 7-Step Bridge Nightmare into a 1-Click Deposit

December 23, 2025
How our Smart Routing Address Turns the 7-Step Bridge Nightmare into a 1-Click Deposit

You've built the next L3 or appchain. Now, stop losing 80% of your potential TVL to a broken, multi-step onboarding process.

The multi-chain future is here, but it's currently a user experience disaster. Every app on a new chain needs users to bridge funds, acquire the right token, and manage gas, leading to low conversion and fragmented liquidity.

ZeroDev’s Smart Routing Address is the strategic fix. It's the Universal Deposit Endpoint that abstracts away bridging, swapping and gas, delivering instant, gas-ready funds to your users with a single transaction.

Read the Offramp case study here.

The 7-Step Onboarding Funnel: Where 80% of Your Users Quit

Even as infrastructure matures, funding a new app feels like navigating a minefield. This is not a technical problem; it is a conversion problem.

Imagine a user hears about your cutting-edge L3 game or DeFi vault. Here is the gauntlet they currently face:

Step Friction Point Resulting Drop-off
1. Connect Wallet The user must manually add an unfamiliar network to their wallet. The Network Wall
2. Wrong Chain/Token Their funds are on one network; the app demands them be on another network. The Token Barrier
3. Select Deposit/Bridge They must go to a third-party bridge. The UX Cliff
4. Approve Token They must sign an approval transaction and pay for gas. First Transaction Delay
5. Bridge Transaction They must confirm a second transaction, paying gas on the source chain. The Costly Gate
6. Wait for Relay Relay takes a variable, multi-minute duration, often with no clear progress indicator. The Drop-off Delay
7. Acquire Gas Funds arrive, but now they have no native gas to sign their first transaction. They are stuck. The Stalling Point

What should be a seamless "fund and go" flow becomes a multi-minute, high-friction, 7-step journey where 50% to 80% of users bail out before ever interacting with your product. You built the highway; the bridge is the only toll gate that matters.

The Future Flow: One Click to Funding

Smart Routing Address is the DNS of Web3 Deposits

Smart Routing Address is a key component of the ZeroDev mission: making developer-focused crypto infrastructure feel invisible to the end user.

We don't compete with the underlying cross-chain infrastructure; we orchestrate it. Smart Routing Address is the high-level operating system that sits atop the existing messy "cross-chain plumbing" (bridges, relayers, swap logic).

When a user opens your L3 app, the onboarding flow collapses instantly:

How Smart Routing Address Works

At its core, a Smart Routing Address is a Universal Deposit Endpoint bound to a destination wallet and target chain. When a user sends funds to that address from any supported source chain, ZeroDev handles the rest:

  1. Detection: Funds are received (e.g., ETH on Mainnet).
  2. Routing: The system finds the optimal, most cost-effective path via trusted bridges and relayers.
  3. Bridging & Relaying: Assets move, with integrated swap logic to acquire the required destination token and minimal native gas.
  4. Settlement: The correct token arrives at the receiver on the right chain, pre-funded for gas.

For the enterprise and chain operator, this is not an integration; it is a TVL Unlock Protocol. By collapsing this friction, you instantly lift the conversion rate for every user attempting to fund your chain.

Developer Benefits: The Cleanest API for Multi-Chain Onboarding

For the teams that need to integrate this, the PMs, founders, and engineers, Smart Routing Address delivers a level of elegance and simplicity currently unmatched.

  • Zero-Lift Integration, Instant Multi-Chain:
    Generate deposit addresses via a single API call. No custom bridge integrations, no managing token variants, and no complex configuration needed for every new L2/L3 you support.
  • The 'Never Get Stuck' Guarantee (Gas-Ready UX):
    Unlike standard bridge solutions, deposits arrive pre-funded with minimal native gas. Your user is ready to sign their first transaction instantly.
  • Audited & Non-Custodial by Design:
    Smart Routing Address utilizes Zerodev's audited smart contracts. We don't hold the funds; we simply help route them.
  • Observable and Traceable:
    Each deposit event emits on-chain proofs, enabling full transparency for analytics, compliance, and accounting.

The Multi-Chain Future Demands Smart Addressing

Just like the early web evolved from requiring users to type in IP addresses to the simplicity of DNS, Web3 needs Smart Addressing. User activation cannot depend on complex, multi-step manual processes.

Smart Routing Address lets you focus on your product — your DeFi vault, your game economy, your consumer wallet — not the brittle, confusing bridge logic.

Try Smart Routing Address Today

To the chain operator or founder: stop watching your adoption numbers stall. Integrate the ultimate conversion engine.

To the developer or PM: Experience the cleanest API for multi-chain onboarding.

Learn more about Smart Routing Address here.

Book a Demo to talk more with our team.

Disclaimer: ZeroDev is a smart account infrastructure product. Certain elements, including but not limited to token swaps, bridging, and smart contract interactions, may be partially or fully performed by independent third-party protocols and service providers. ZeroDev is not a custodial service and does not custody user funds.

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