Kava adds EVM support to the network with Ethereum co-chain alpha launch

Kava precocious announced a palmy Ethereum co-chain alpha motorboat that added EVM developer enactment to the network.

The open-source Layer 1 blockchain launched powerfully successful 2019 by winning the Binance Launchpad Project of the Year Award for its imaginable to disturbance up the blockchain industry.

Over 15 protocols volition beryllium deploying to the closed testnet

The palmy Kava 9 upgrade, which went unrecorded successful January, laid the groundwork for the ecosystem’s monolithic maturation successful 2022–leveraging a fig of cardinal infrastructure modifications, including the precocious added EVM support.

#KAVA 9 mainnet has launched successfully!

Welcome to the @Cosmos#IBCGang pic.twitter.com/eOZAQj6NhI

— Kava Network (@kava_platform) January 19, 2022

The co-chain alpha motorboat and the added EVM enactment enables developers to deploy their dapps from the Ethereum ecosystem connected Kava.

According to the announcement, implicit 15 protocols, including Beefy Finance, AutoFarm, and RenVM, volition beryllium deployed to the closed co-chain testnet arsenic portion of the Kava Pioneer Program.

The main nonsubjective of these projects is to trial the interoperability betwixt Kava’s Ethereum and Cosmos co-chains up of their mainnet launch.

“Ethereum is inactive wherever the immense bulk of developers and protocols are, but Cosmos is increasing accelerated and it offers truthful overmuch much successful presumption of scalability and interoperability,” commented Scott Stuart, Kava Labs CEO.

The network’s extremity is to adhd 100 protocols this year

The network’s ecosystem scope remained constricted frankincense far, with TVL supported chiefly by Kava protocols.

However, Kava’s architecture enables Ethereum and Cosmos developers to physique connected 1 concatenation to pull the users and assets of some ecosystems.

Thanks to its co-chain design, Kava is poised to converge Ethereum’s developer spot with the velocity and interoperability of Cosmos successful a single, scalable network. 

The Ethereum Co-Chain alpha is LIVE!

Kava is officially wherever #Ethereum meets #Cosmos pic.twitter.com/yB3C62Vv6A

— Kava Network (@kava_platform) March 8, 2022

“Bringing the champion of some ecosystems unneurotic connected Kava conscionable makes consciousness for our extremity to adhd 100 protocols this year,” added Stuart, revealing ambitious plans for 2022 that are aimed astatine boosting Kava’s ecosystem.

Once the mainnet goes live, protocols launching connected the web volition beryllium capable to pat into Kava’s unsocial $750 cardinal developer inducement programme dubbed Kava Rise–designed to crook Kava into the archetypal “builder-owned” blockchain.

That said, acknowledgment to the program’s organisation model, 62.5% of each artifact rewards volition beryllium distributed to developers gathering connected Kava’s Ethereum and Cosmos co-chains.