- The Stellar Development Foundation has joined the Bytecode Alliance, a group promoting the development of WebAssembly (Wasm).
- WebAssembly (Wasm) is a competitor to the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) used by the Ethereum ecosystem and is used in non-blockchain, browser-based applications.
- The EVM is a virtual machine used to execute smart contracts and is used by most blockchain networks.
- Stellar began as a payments network in 2014 and implemented smart contracts in 2022.
- Stellar chose Wasm as its computation engine over EVM due to scalability and cost concerns.
- The Bytecode Alliance is a nonprofit organization comprised of internet companies working on Wasm development.
- By joining the Bytecode Alliance, Stellar aims to influence standards and tooling within the Wasm development community.
- Stellar’s participation in the organization will help support the needs of Web3 and blockchain developers.
- The Wasm community is making progress in the Web3 world, with networks like Astar allowing both EVM and Wasm contracts.
- Binance also recently announced funding for a zero-knowledge proof application platform using Wasm.
Stellar joins Bytecode Alliance to help develop EVM alternative Wasm
