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Eclipse, a Layer 2 developer, introduced the upcoming launch of Polygon SVM, a blockchain that’s appropriate with Solana and constructed for the Polygon community.
The purpose of Eclipse’s Polygon SVM blockchain is to permit Solana builders to maneuver their apps to Polygon with out having to rebuild their code for the Ethereum Digital Machine (EVM). The Polygon SVM testnet is anticipated to launch within the first quarter of this 12 months, with the mainnet anticipated to observe within the second quarter.
Polygon SVM is a Layer 2 blockchain that makes use of the SeaLevel Digital Machine (SVM), a computing surroundings that allows builders to deploy Rust-based Solana apps on different blockchains like Polygon.
How does it work?
Solana good contracts may be natively run on Polygon SVM, which means that the good contracts may be stored the identical and deployed on to Polygon SVM. The blockchain will make the most of Optimistic Rollups know-how, much like different Layer 2 initiatives, resembling Arbitrum or Optimism, to create blocks. Rust builders will be capable to switch their code from Solana to Eclipse and run it on the Polygon community. Then, it may be settled again to Solana for added safety utilizing Rollups.
“The Polygon SVM assists Solana builders in migrating their apps to Polygon as a result of it might natively run Solana good contracts. You possibly can maintain all your good contracts the identical and deploy them on to Polygon SVM. Sometimes once you migrate from Solana to Polygon (utilizing Polygon EVM), it’s a must to rewrite all good contracts for the EVM,” Neel Somani, founding father of Eclipse, advised The Block.
Polygon’s knowledge availability protocol Avail will function the bottom layer for its Rollup, and the blockchain will talk with each Polygon’s essential community and Ethereum by cross-chain bridges, Somani stated.
Eclipse raised $15 million in a pre-seed funding spherical in September and is a portfolio firm of Polygon Ventures. Additionally it is a grant recipient of the Solana Basis.
Eclipse shouldn’t be the one undertaking engaged on increasing Solana apps to different blockchains. Nitro, one other Layer 2 blockchain, is creating a community to deploy and execute Solana apps on Sei, a blockchain set to launch quickly on Cosmos.
