Written by: ARUN SHAKYAWARM2024
Compiled by: Deep Wave TechFlow
Movement Labs and Aptos are collaborating to integrate EVM and non-EVM blockchains to enable seamless interaction between different blockchain platforms, thereby enhancing ecosystem connectivity and efficiency.
To enhance blockchain interoperability, Movement Labs has announced an innovative integration with Aptos, combining the technical capabilities of both parties to close the gap between Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and non-EVM blockchains.
Movement Labs
Movement Labs is building a modular blockchain network based on Move, designed to promote the adoption and development of Move, a smart contract development language. To achieve this goal, the company raised $3.4 million in seed funding last year. The investment comes from a group of important venture capital investors, including dao5, Varys Capital, Blizzard Fund and Borderless Capital, as well as a group of angel investors, such as George Lampeth from dao5, Calvin Liu from Eigenlayer, Smokey The Bera from Berachain, and Anurag Arjun from Avail.
Innovative integration for interoperability
This collaboration aims to usher in a new era of connectivity and functionality within the digital asset ecosystem.
At the heart of this integration is Movement Labs’ crafted Movement SDK, an innovative framework designed to facilitate horizontal interoperability by implementing high-throughput modular Move Virtual Machines (MVMs) that can seamlessly Integrate into any blockchain network.
Additionally, the SDK’s translator, Fractal, supports vertical composability, allowing smart contract languages such as Solidity to be converted into the Move language. This not only enhances the versatility of blockchain applications, but also provides native re-entrancy attack protection, significantly improving security measures without requiring additional technical effort.
The partnership between Aptos Foundation and Movement Labs marks an important milestone in the quest for a more connected blockchain world.
The partnership aims to streamline interactions between the Movement blockchain and the Aptos network by leveraging Aptos’ data availability (DA) capabilities alongside Movement’s Move Stack and building an advanced routing infrastructure.
Such efforts promise to usher in a new wave of applications, networks, and frameworks that can easily run across both platforms.
Enhanced accessibility and functionality
Key goals of the partnership include extending Aptos Umbrella to bring a native Aptos experience to the Ethereum and EVM networks, thereby enhancing interoperability and functionality. Additionally, aligning mobile networks with Aptos through a sophisticated routing infrastructure will enable direct connectivity from any EVM environment via the mobile mobility stack.
This initiative aims to bring the EVM protocol, liquidity, and users natively to Aptos and Movement, thereby creating a mature environment for broad accessibility and interoperability.
Technological progress and looking to the future
The technical backbone of this integration revolves around leveraging Aptos as a data availability solution utilizing Move Stack for rollup.
This will effectively import the transaction volume of independent blockchains into the Aptos DA network. Additionally, Movement adopts the Aptos Move VM as its primary VM environment, demonstrating a strong commitment to providing native support for Aptos Move builders within the Movement Stack.
By integrating Movement’s Ethereum Virtual Machine runtime with the Aptos protocol and Aptos Move language, the partnership aims to create a secure environment for dynamic scheduling support.
This visionary alliance between Aptos and Movement not only promises a seamlessly integrated Open Move framework under Aptos, but also heralds a future in which direct connectivity and routing through the Move Stack will become the norm.
As EVM Blockchain continues to adopt this framework, Aptos Blockchain expects the resulting network effects to attract new users and spur growth, solidifying its position in the global blockchain space.
