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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.
| 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. |
The chain is secured by the Polkadot ecosystem collators
The blocks are produced at 12 second intervals.
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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