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Kadena announced at EthCC in Cannes that its long-planned Chainweb EVM testnet is live. Unlike Ethereum L2s that promise scaling via rollups, Chainweb EVM runs on Kadena’s braided proof-of-work architecture, designed to scale horizontally without fragmentation from discrete sequencers or bridges.

The result, according to Stuart Popejoy, Kadena co-founder and CEO, is “seamless EVM compatibility without compromising decentralization or throughput.”

“This is vanilla EVM with Pectra, so you can deploy today right now onto our chains,” Popejoy told the audience in Cannes at EthCC… Read more on Blockworks