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Web3 interoperability platform Axelar has launched the Mobius Development Stack (MDS) on its mainnet, describing it as “the first-and-only holistic interoperability platform.”
According to the press release shared with Cryptonews, the novel platform enables customizable, self-service integration with any on-chain or off-chain system.
With this move, the team has created “a new design space” for decentralized applications (dapps).
Mobius will enable financial services firms and blockchain innovators worldwide to connect private-chain environments to public Layer-1s.
This will allow them to unlock the tokenized asset potential, the announcement said.
It has named Solana, Stellar, Sui, and XRP Ledger as the upcoming Layer-1 interoperability launches.
Furthermore, the Mobius launch made Axelar “the first institutional-grade interoperability network to integrate Babylon and EigenLayer.”
Thanks to this, the team has brought both Bitcoin– and Ethereum-level security to cross-chain interactions, they claimed.
Per Axelar, this is key for institutional participants. They require “the highest-quality digital collateral to secure trillions in total value locked (TVL).”
Luke Hajdukiewicz, EigenLayer Head of AVS BD, commented that this integration opens a great number of restaking opportunities in new use cases previously inaccessible to Eigen.
Adeniyi Abiodun, co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Mysten Labs, the team behind Sui, added that MDS will provide developers with the tools to compose Sui’s innovations – including zkLogin and the new consensus algorithm Mysticeti – with “technology and communities across Web3.”
Notably, the team also launched its Interchain Amplifier feature. It enables permissionless cross-chain connections with an innovative consensus approach at the smart contract layer.
Any new chain, consensus mechanism, and off-chain system can connect – without protocol-level development – via designated groups of ‘verifiers.’ These post collateral in AXL or restaked ETH.
Dapps Spanning All Chains at The Same Time
Mobius is an omnichain-oriented platform. It enables dapps to integrate with and “surpass traditional systems in functionality, access, and user experience.”
The key benefits include customizable connections to blockchains through the newly launched Interchain Amplifier; fast tokenization of crypto and real-world assets (RWAs) via the Interchain Token Service (ITS); interactions between various off-chain actors and Web3 dapps; and omnichain user experiences.
“Much of the potential in tokenized assets comes down to their interoperability with emerging blockchain infrastructure that spans the globe,” commented Ripple President Monica Long.
“Axelar MDS will enable that interoperability with assets tokenized on XRP Ledger, improving liquidity and facilitating global access,” Long said.
CEO of Interop Labs and co-founder of Axelar protocol Sergey Gorbunov argued that typically, interoperability stacks lag behind the rise in the number of blockchains.
Mobius, however, is able to “keep up with the demand,” he stated.
What’s more, developers can simply plug their blockchain into the network of thousands of blockchains and “build dapps that span all chains at the same time.”
The solution scales to support “thousands of heterogeneous blockchains offering strong security properties, and allowing innovation to continue to happen at all levels of the stack.”
This is crucial, given that user experience in the current Web3 is “broken” and developer capabilities are “limited.”
Mobius, however, enables “a truly global internet landscape,” argued Georgios Vlachos, director at Axelar Foundation and co-founder of the Axelar protocol.
Go Multichain on Day One
Per the announcement, Mobius comes with a vendor-agnostic interface built with OpenZeppelin.
Axelar previously announced the integration of OpenZeppelin’s massive smart-contract libraries. These secured over $6 trillion in value transferred.
Now, the collaboration will enable “an open interface compatible with all major interoperability protocols,” allowing dapps to “go multichain on Day One, without vendor lock-in.”
“We’ve already made great progress with Interop Labs toward integrating Axelar into OpenZeppelin’s leading smart-contract libraries,” said the latter’s founder and CEO Demian Brener.
“That collaboration just took on a new dimension: a completely open set of semantics that is vendor-agnostic,” he added.
Meanwhile, the list of Axelar adopters includes Uniswap, Microsoft, and many natively multichain startups.
Its backers include major companies such as Binance, Coinbase, Dragonfly, Galaxy, and Polychain.
