On 2026-05-29, @tcharchian merged PR #1152 into gonka-docs, surfacing the Ethereum bridge's "Register a token" page in the documentation navigation and rewriting the safety warning carried across all five bridge pages. The diff is small — 6 files, 7 additions, 5 deletions — but the wording it changes is the telling part: the bridge docs no longer tell readers to wait for an official activation announcement.

What changed

• The existing register-token.md page is now linked in the Ethereum bridge section of mkdocs.yml, placed directly after the Overview entry. The navigation label ships in both English and Chinese (注册代币), so readers on either menu can find it. (PR #1152)
• The old caution — "To avoid unintentional loss of tokens, do not use these instructions before the official announcement that the bridge is fully activated" — is gone. In its place, all five bridge pages (overview, register-token, deposit-usdt, withdraw-usdt, deposit-gnk) now carry a standard caution: start with a small test transaction before moving larger amounts.
• The disclaimer is applied uniformly, so the five pages read consistently instead of each carrying its own warning text.

Why it matters

The Ethereum bridge connects Gonka to Ethereum through a native pair of clients (bridge-geth and bridge-prysm) and has been under CertiK audit. Until now the public docs framed the bridge as something to read about but not touch. Dropping the "wait for the announcement" warning, and documenting how to register a token, signals a shift from audit-and-preview toward a phase where operators can actually exercise the bridge — carefully.

For a token issuer, the register-token page sitting in the menu means the path to listing an asset is discoverable rather than buried. For an ordinary user, the "small test transaction first" guidance matches how cross-chain bridges get used in practice: send a little, confirm it arrives, then send the rest.

This is a documentation change, not a protocol change. The bridge contracts and clients are untouched by this PR. What changed is how the project tells people to approach the bridge, and that wording now reads like the bridge is meant to be used.