The era of expressivity | EVM, SVM and Wasm blended into one chain.
The Era of Expressivity. Why Performance is No Longer a Differentiator.
For years, the single most important problem to solve in the blockchain space was performance. Ethereum got clogged with cat NFTs and the industry responded with numerous solutions competing to make blockspace performant again. We’ve come a long way since then:Bitcoin and Ethereum process at most tens of transactions per second. But newer L1s like Aptos (15,015 TPS) and Solana (10,605 TPS), or L2s like Eclipse (8,600 TPS), scale much higher.Bitcoin’s consensus produces a block every 10 minute...
The Era of Expressivity. Why Performance is No Longer a Differentiator.
For years, the single most important problem to solve in the blockchain space was performance. Ethereum got clogged with cat NFTs and the industry responded with numerous solutions competing to make blockspace performant again. We’ve come a long way since then:Bitcoin and Ethereum process at most tens of transactions per second. But newer L1s like Aptos (15,015 TPS) and Solana (10,605 TPS), or L2s like Eclipse (8,600 TPS), scale much higher.Bitcoin’s consensus produces a block every 10 minute...
Fluent Labs Raises $8M Led by Polychain Capital to Build the First Blended Execution Network
Developers are currently stuck with rigid execution environments that force them to use a limited set of programming languages and tools. Pick an EVM-only chain and use Solidity or pick an SVM-only chain and use Rust. The latter is more efficient but makes developers sacrifice valuable EVM network effects. Both environments, by themselves, are limiting and don’t let developers bring familiar programming languages, software libraries and off the shelf code from web2. Fluent offers a different ...
Fluent Labs Raises $8M Led by Polychain Capital to Build the First Blended Execution Network
Developers are currently stuck with rigid execution environments that force them to use a limited set of programming languages and tools. Pick an EVM-only chain and use Solidity or pick an SVM-only chain and use Rust. The latter is more efficient but makes developers sacrifice valuable EVM network effects. Both environments, by themselves, are limiting and don’t let developers bring familiar programming languages, software libraries and off the shelf code from web2. Fluent offers a different ...
Blended is cool, but is anyone actually building?
Over the past couple of years, there’s been no shortage of pessimistic discourse. Some of the sentiment reflects a prolonged bear market. Some of it reflects healthy skepticism. Some of it reflects financial nihilism. How many times have you heard the following:“Where are all the apps”“Token is the only product”“Money is the only use case”Recently, altVMs have sparked a change. They usher in new technical features such as parallel execution, formal verification, local fee markets, dozens of p...
Blended is cool, but is anyone actually building?
Over the past couple of years, there’s been no shortage of pessimistic discourse. Some of the sentiment reflects a prolonged bear market. Some of it reflects healthy skepticism. Some of it reflects financial nihilism. How many times have you heard the following:“Where are all the apps”“Token is the only product”“Money is the only use case”Recently, altVMs have sparked a change. They usher in new technical features such as parallel execution, formal verification, local fee markets, dozens of p...
Introducing Fluent Public Devnet: Building Wasm and EVM-based Blended Apps
If you’ve been following the Fluent journey, you know that Private Devnet V1 was shipped about six months ago and Private Devnet V2 was shipped about four months ago. Wasm-based contracts were delivered first, EVM-compatibility was then enabled, and now for public devnet Wasm and EVM-based contracts can call each other directly. For the first time, blended applications composed of Solidity, Rust and Vyper contracts can be built on Fluent.The First Blended DevnetFluent Public Devnet is an L2 e...
Introducing Fluent Public Devnet: Building Wasm and EVM-based Blended Apps
If you’ve been following the Fluent journey, you know that Private Devnet V1 was shipped about six months ago and Private Devnet V2 was shipped about four months ago. Wasm-based contracts were delivered first, EVM-compatibility was then enabled, and now for public devnet Wasm and EVM-based contracts can call each other directly. For the first time, blended applications composed of Solidity, Rust and Vyper contracts can be built on Fluent.The First Blended DevnetFluent Public Devnet is an L2 e...
Unifying VMs with Blended Execution
Existing general purpose blockchains support apps targeting one virtual machine (VM). They offer single execution of smart contracts written in the VM’s supported programming language(s). In order for users to interact with apps across different VMs, they must bridge between networks and manage various wallets and token standards. This introduces user friction and various trust and security assumptions based on how the bridges are designed. We propose a new paradigm to unify VMs: blended exec...
Unifying VMs with Blended Execution
Existing general purpose blockchains support apps targeting one virtual machine (VM). They offer single execution of smart contracts written in the VM’s supported programming language(s). In order for users to interact with apps across different VMs, they must bridge between networks and manage various wallets and token standards. This introduces user friction and various trust and security assumptions based on how the bridges are designed. We propose a new paradigm to unify VMs: blended exec...
