Hassan Maishera
On Monday, the Zilliqa team announced via a blog post that it has deployed the Aventurine proto-mainnet, a significant milestone on the roadmap to the launch of Zilliqa 2.0.
Aventurine serves as a robust test environment, introducing a number of improvements on the previous Jasper release and laying essential groundwork for a seamless transition to Zilliqa 2.0 upon its mainnet launch with the Agate release.
Per the team, Aventurine will technically launch two networks - one upgraded version of the existing Jasper proto-testnet that imports its historical state and a new proto-mainnet that will import the historical state from the current Zilliqa mainnet.
It also introduces critical interoperability between Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and the Scilla smart contract language, which enables Zilliqa fungible tokens to function as EVM-compatible tokens. Tokens used in major Zilliqa dApps such as $FPS, $XCAD, $XSGD, $HRSE, and $SEED will be available on the proto-mainnet, and support will be added to bridge these tokens from the proto-mainnet to BSC after the launch of Aventurine.
Zilliqa (ZIL) is one of the world’s first blockchains being built on a sharded architecture and features smart contracts written in the platform’s proprietary programming language: Scilla. ZIL is trading at $0.02795, down down % in the last 24 hours.
