Cross-chain bridge Stargate Finance is discontinuing support for four blockchains, with v2 support for Gravity, Camp, GOAT and Metis set to end on October 23, 2026. Stargate, a unified liquidity bridge built on LayerZero's cross-chain messaging protocol, moves assets between networks through shared liquidity pools, and users with liquidity in Stargate pools on any of the affected networks are urged to withdraw or bridge their assets before the cutoff to avoid losing access to their funds.

What Is Changing and When

The affected chains are Gravity Alpha Mainnet, Camp, GOAT Network and Metis Andromeda. All four are being removed due to low activity.

The move follows a broader LayerZero Labs initiative to wind down the off-chain infrastructure services the company operates on chains showing minimal usage.

Two separate deadlines apply, and they affect different groups. The first, October 23, 2026, covers Stargate v2 users and liquidity providers on the four chains. Liquidity providers deposit assets into Stargate's pool contracts, which hold the shared reserves that route transfers between chains.

The second falls one week later. LayerZero's default DVN and Executor services for the same chains will stop on October 30, 2026.

A cross-chain message needs one party to verify that it is legitimate and another to deliver it on the destination chain. DVNs and Executors are the off-chain services LayerZero has operated by default to handle those jobs. LayerZero's architecture lets applications configure their own verification and delivery setup, so once LayerZero stops supplying its default versions, applications on these chains must arrange their own.

Developers building on the impacted networks have until October 30 to migrate to new DVN and Executor configurations, where those are available.

Holders of canonical assets transferred through the established, official bridges are unaffected. Canonical assets are minted on the destination chain against deposits locked on the origin chain, so redeeming them runs through the official bridges rather than Stargate. The official bridges between Ethereum and Metis remain operational, so users who entered through those routes face no immediate action.

Part of a Broader Cleanup

This is not the first round of cuts. Stargate and LayerZero have already deprecated support for other networks earlier in 2026, with Aurora, Gnosis and Taiko among the chains named in prior wind-downs. The sequence shows interoperability infrastructure being steadily withdrawn from chains with minimal usage.

A larger shutdown still lies ahead. All Stargate v1 pools are scheduled to close across every chain on December 15, 2026, a date that gives liquidity providers across the protocol a later deadline to plan around.

What This Means for Users, LPs and Builders

For liquidity providers, the practical message is to act early. Waiting until the final days before October 23 would mean competing with every other LP heading for the exit at the same time.

Metis users have a cushion that others may not enjoy, since the official Ethereum-Metis bridges will keep running. For Gravity, Camp and GOAT, the practical impact will depend on what alternative routes remain available to their users once Stargate exits.

Developers face the most complex task. Any application on these chains that relies on LayerZero's default DVN and Executor setup needs a new configuration by October 30. If no replacement exists for a given chain, cross-chain features built on that stack could simply stop working.

For anyone touching LayerZero-based protocols, the dates worth circling are clear: October 23 for Stargate v2 on Gravity, Camp, GOAT and Metis; October 30 for default DVN and Executor services on those chains; and December 15 for the shutdown of every Stargate v1 pool.