Original source: Horizen Blog According to official news, Ankr, a Web3 infrastructure provider in the blockchain field, announced a strategic partnership with Horizen and became one of Horizen's first remote procedure call (RPC) providers. Horizen’s EON is a smart contract platform fully compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), and Ankr’s advanced infrastructure and services will bring additional accessibility, scalability and reliability to the EON ecosystem to support a wide range of Use cases include DeFi, games and NFTs. In this cooperation, Ankr will provide a set of development tools to help quickly and easily create and deploy smart contract applications on EON. These tools include Liquid Staking SDK, Web3 Game SDK and AppChains as a Service. With Ankr's high-performance RPC node infrastructure, EON is able to handle any request load, making it more scalable and efficient. Rob Viglione, co-founder and CEO of Horizen, said the partnership will significantly enhance the capabilities of the EON ecosystem and bring unparalleled value to developers and users. Currently, Horizen EON runs on its permanent public testnet, Gobi, and is supported by a network of products, integrations, and tools, now including Ankr. With the launch of this partnership, the EON ecosystem will welcome additional dApps and services in the coming months that will be combined with Horizen’s zero-knowledge-enabled cross-chain protocol and Ankr’s advanced Web3 infrastructure to create a permissionless, Interoperable and customizable blockchain ecosystem. Original link