Polkadot announced today that Cardano will utilize Substrate, the foundation of the Polkadot SDK, to build out its new “partner chain” project. This showcases Substrate’s potential to expand across the Web3 ecosystem and its ease of use for integrating with other blockchains and platforms.
IOG, the leading developer of Cardano, described Substrate as a “proven open-source modular framework” and plans to contribute a set of composable modules to broaden Substrate’s capabilities. IOG expressed that it has “long shared common ground and had respect for the modular technology the Substrate team has developed.”
1/ Cardano will use Substrate, the foundation of the Polkadot SDK, to build out its “partner chain” project — showcasing Substrate's potential to expand across Web3, and its ease of use for other chains and ecosystems 🛠️
— Polkadot (@Polkadot) November 6, 2023
Substrate is designed as a flexible framework for building customized blockchains. By using Substrate, blockchains can inherit security properties from the Polkadot relay chain while still retaining sovereign control over their own governance and features.
In addition to powering parachains on Polkadot, Substrate can also be used standalone to create independent blockchains like Polygon’s Avail network. Its modular design allows developers to compose custom runtimes with desired functionality.
By building its partner chain on Substrate, Cardano aims to tap into Substrate’s existing tooling and large development community. This demonstrates the potential for Substrate to become a unifying framework across Web3, allowing interoperability and code reuse between diverse blockchains.
Discover more about Substrate and how it fits into Polkadot’s SDK on GitHub. As more projects leverage these frameworks, we may see increased connectivity and synergies between ecosystems in the decentralized web.
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