matter mesh using esp32 bluetooth BLE

[RichPiano]

I'm interested in the matter standard. For our app we planned to build a bluetooth mesh, preferably using the matter protocol. After reading the blog and doc I'm still not very clear on whether you can directly run matter on BLE-mesh nodes.

The doc states the following:

A Matter-Zigbee Bridge uses ESP32-H and another Wi-Fi SoC, while a Matter-BLE Mesh Bridge can be done on a single SoC with both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth LE interfaces.

Does this mean that I need a BLE - matter bridge to connect a BLE mesh to the matter network? Or does the esp-SDK facilitate the transport of matter data over BLE mesh somehow? In any case, I'm looking for clarification on that topic (if exists).

[RichPiano]

I want to push back on this topic as this our core effort right now. Is there a platform that maybe discusses matter topics more actively? I don't want to unnecessarily bother here.