Rome Protocol Launches Ostia EVM Chain on Canton Network DevNet With Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Ostia has been operating on DevNet since October 22 and has dedicated greater than 53,600 blocks to this point.

Early-Stage Limits

The deployment is a check launch. Rome’s documentation states that Ostia is unaudited, its check coin has no worth and DevNet could also be reset. It additionally says Rome runs the builder, the prover and the only participant that confirms blocks, and that no different participant confirms Ostia DevNet blocks in the present day. The venture’s repository advises in opposition to utilizing Ostia for something of worth.

The work targets a community constructed for regulated finance. A Talos report on Canton describes it as a blockchain ecosystem providing privateness, interoperability and fine-grained controls. The identical report says Canton was developed by Digital Asset and that its International Synchronizer makes use of Canton Coin as its utility token.

For Rome Protocol, Ostia extends past its current Solana-based work. Solana Compass describes Rome as a venture that lets purposes written for Ethereum run on Solana, and lists Ostia amongst its newer rollup tasks, an EVM chain ordered by Canton and confirmed with ZisK.

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