Injective launches layer-2 testnet for Solana-based apps in Cosmos

Developers whitethorn soon beryllium capable to larboard Solana Web3 apps to the Cosmos ecosystem, bringing caller users to these apps and providing a greater assortment of uses for Cosmos blockchains. 

According to a March 30 announcement from the developer of Cosmos-based web Injective (INJ), the squad has released a layer-2 testnet that utilizes Solana’s Sea Level Virtual Machine (SVM). This means that immoderate Solana developers tin present trial their apps for usage successful the Cosmos ecosystem without needing to alteration the programming connection oregon tooling used.

In a speech with Cointelegraph, a typical from Injective said the sanction of the caller web is “Cascade” and that it uses optimistic rollup technology.

According to the announcement, the caller furniture was created with the assistance of Eclipse, a institution that provides customized zero-knowledge and optimistic rollups for developers.

Eric Chen, co-founder and CEO of Injective Labs, stated that the integration should assistance some the Solana developer assemblage and Cosmos users:

“This caller SVM rollup for the Cosmos IBC satellite volition not lone empower developers from Solana to deploy their DApps connected Injective, but it volition besides make much opportunities for users to acquisition the champion Web3 DApps successful 1 integrated network.”

Injective stated that the testnet is presently private, but it is “offering a constricted fig of spots exclusively to prime Solana developers” opening connected March 30.

The fig of progressive Solana developer teams increased over 1,000% year-over-year successful the 3rd 4th of 2022, according to a study by Alchemy. The network features respective apps with implicit 2,000 unsocial users, including the nonfungible token marketplace Magic Eden and DeFi protocol MeanFi, according to Web3 analytics institution DappRadar.

However, Solana Web3 apps are written for usage with the Solana SVM, which is utilized by fewer networks different than Solana itself. This makes it hard for Solana developers to larboard their apps to different networks without extended rewriting.

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Eclipse besides created an SVM rollup for Polygon connected February 23.

Cosmos is simply a radical of interconnected blockchain networks developed utilizing the aforesaid statement motor and bundle improvement kit. They are connected done the Cosmos Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (IBC), and assets connected 1 web tin beryllium transferred to others wrong the Cosmos ecosystem. Injective is 1 of the networks that marque up this ecosystem, and the caller SVM rollup is simply a layer-2 of Injective.

Injective Labs isn't the lone institution trying to marque Solana apps compatible with Cosmos. Nitro Labs besides announced the improvement of an SVM rollup for the Sei web successful September and released a decentralized speech for its testnet successful February.

The Cosmos ecosystem has been growing implicit the past 2 years. On March 11, Cosmos Hub governance approved the V9-Lambda upgrade that begins to instrumentality Interchain Security (ICS), allowing members of the ecosystem to stock validations resources. On March 29, Circle announced that it volition launch USDC for Cosmos via the Noble Network.