Adoriasoft’s New SDK Means Any Cosmos Chain Can Become a Polkadot Parachain
Blockchain development firm Adoriasoft has released a new SDK that will give Cosmos chains superpowers. Its Cosmos SDK Parachain Development Kit will enable any Cosmos chain to be deployed on Polkadot, opening up Cosmos projects to the Substrate ecosystem of interoperable networks. The ramifications of this move are significant, with the potential to suck Cosmos […]
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