# The bloXroute Gateway

The bloXroute Gateway is open-source software that acts as the entry point for blockchain clients (such as Geth, Bitcoin ABC, etc.) to bloXroute’s BDN, passing transactions and blocks between the blockchain client and the rest of the BDN. The Gateway talks to the blockchain client using the blockchain client’s native peer-to-peer communication protocol. From the perspective of the blockchain client, a Gateway is simply another peer in the network

To communicate with the rest of the bloXroute BDN, the Gateway communicates in the [BLXR protocol](broken://pages/-MIUefgOLjjxhORGDPtk). As open-source software, anyone can modify the Gateway to meet their needs or review the code to ensure that the software is behaving as expected.

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