Noble blockchain shifts from Cosmos to launch a standalone EVM

Noble, a stablecoin blockchain, has announced it is moving from the Cosmos ecosystem to Ethereum, citing the request to entree a amended tech stack and wider developer community.

Noble announced connected Tuesday that it volition beryllium migrating its Cosmos SDK-based blockchain to a standalone EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) furniture 1, readying to motorboat connected March 18.

Noble is simply a task capital-backed blockchain primitively designed arsenic a neutral liquidity hub for stablecoin and tokenized real-world plus issuance. 

Due to its improvement into a web supporting existent end-user stablecoin applications and DeFi, the squad saw the request to modulation from its archetypal Cosmos roots to a high-performance Ethereum-compatible L1, they stated. 

Noble claims to person processed much than $22 cardinal successful transaction measurement since 2023, has 30,000 monthly progressive users, and is the superior liquidity furniture for implicit 50 blockchains.

Better tech stack, developer access, and scalability 

The rationale for switching to EVM was to entree a amended tech stack and open-source “Commonware” utilizing the Rust-based blockchain model and Reth Ethereum client, which offers superior performance, said the team.

They besides said they wanted amended idiosyncratic and developer accessibility, which EVMs provide, arsenic it is wherever astir crypto developers already work. 

There are besides scaling limitations with Cosmos architecture, which were constraining merchandise development, they said. 

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Key features of the caller concatenation see sub-500 millisecond transaction finality, permissionless astute declaration deployment, dedicated outgo lanes for prioritizing real-world outgo transactions, and a absorption connected their ain autochthonal stablecoin. 

New Noble blockchain architecture. Source: Noble

Crypto projects travel astir to Ethereum compatibility

The institution has its ain stablecoin, Noble Dollar (USDN), with a marketplace capitalization of $36 million. Issuance peaked astatine $128 cardinal successful July 2025, but it has since declined 72% to existent levels, according to CoinGecko. 

The determination highlights a increasing inclination of crypto projects utilizing Ethereum arsenic their infrastructure layer. 

Last twelvemonth successful April, FIFA announced the migration of its NFT level from Algorand to a caller EVM-compatible chain. In June, the XRPL EVM sidechain officially launched connected mainnet, Injective launched its EVM concatenation successful November, portion blockchains specified arsenic Sei person been looking astatine stronger EVM integration.  

Ethereum is the existent manufacture modular and ascendant web for stablecoins and tokenized RWA. It has a commanding marketplace stock of 66% erstwhile layer-2 and EVM chains are included, according to RWA.xyz.

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