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One of the first parachains launched on Polkadot, Moonbeam is an EVM-compatible environment built using the Substrate framework. With multiple Solidity precompiles, Moonbeam enables native cross-chain communication between Polkadot parachains. This includes the creation of ERC20 tokens across networks and liquidity routing.

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Consensus	Delegated Proof-of-Stake
Public / Private / Permissioned	Public
Smart contracts	Yes
Smart contract language(s) supported	Solidity, Vyper, Yul, Huff
Transaction privacy	No
Transaction visibility	All participants have access to all entries ever recorded.
Transaction ordering	All validating participants must reach consensus over the order of all transactions that have taken place, irrespective of whether a participant has taken part in a particular transaction or not.

Fault tolerance

The chain is secured by the Polkadot ecosystem collators

Performance

The blocks are produced at 12 second intervals.

Industry use case

Token securitization, land registries, token-enabled marketplaces, standardized data, digital identity, certifications (e.g. academic, birth), notarization, DeFi, secure layer for rollups, etc.

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