Chain Resource Directory

Abstract is an L2 ZK rollup built on Ethereum, designed to easily bring consumers onchain. With a global wallet that enables native account abstraction, gas sponsorship, and social logins, the Abstract chain makes it easy to onboard mainstream users to your app.

ADI is a new EVM L2 blockchain backed by UAE institutions that will power the United Arab Emirates' upcoming stablecoin as well as apps across emerging markets.

Anime is a blockchain purpose-built for anime IP, fandoms, and NFT-first experiences. Created by the Azuki team, Anime gives studios and fans tamper-proof provenance and licensing rails, issues at the core of AI-generated content.

ApeChain is an Arbitrum Orbit L3 created by the ApeCoin DAO and purpose built for Yuga Labs games and the wider BAYC ecosystem. Native APE gas and custom gaming primitives let studios launch great user experiences without leaving the Ape community's token economy.

Aptos is a high-performance L1 from former Diem engineers that uses the Move language and Block-STM parallel execution to confirm transactions in sub-seconds at high throughput. Its developer-centric tooling, resource accounts, and safety-first design make it a strong fit for consumer apps, games, and DeFi at scale.

Arbitrum is an optimistic rollup that inherits Ethereum security while delivering sub-cent gas fees and high throughput. Arbitrum's Orbit and Stylus tooling attract builders deploying complex, low-latency apps without leaving the Ethereum ecosystem.

Arc is Circle’s open L1 blockchain, purpose-built for stablecoin finance. With USDC as native gas, fees are low, predictable, and dollar-denominated. Arc is now live on public testnet with involvement from 100+ institutions, including BlackRock, Visa, and HSBC.

Astar is a Polkadot parachain that supports both EVM and WASM contracts, and is designed for multichain interoperability. Its app-staking model rewards builders and token-holders, bootstrapping a vibrant cross-chain ecosystem. Astar is popular in Japan and APAC with strong enterprise support.

Avalanche C-Chain is an EVM-compatible smart contract chain within the Avalanche network, offering sub-second finality and low fees. It serves as the main entry point for Ethereum apps into Avalanche’s ecosystem. Custom subnets let projects launch dedicated, customizable blockchains while tapping into Avalanche liquidity.

Base is an OP Stack L2 developed by Coinbase to bring the next billion users onchain. It offers low fees, high throughput, and deep integration with Coinbase’s exchange and fiat rails. With strong developer tools and ecosystem incentives, it’s a gateway for mainstream Web3 apps.

Berachain is an EVM-compatible L1 built with the Cosmos SDK. The chain introduces a novel Proof of Liquidity consensus mechanism that aligns staking with block production. Berachain combines performant infrastructure with a meme-powered community and DeFi-native governance.

Bitcoin is the original blockchain network and is the most secure, decentralized cryptocurrency in existence. It introduced peer-to-peer value transfer and remains a censorship-resistant store of value with a fixed 21M supply. As a base layer, it supports emerging L2s like Lightning and Stacks.

Bitcoin Cash is a UTXO Layer-1 blockchain that forked from Bitcoin in 2017. It uses larger blocks for higher throughput, supporting faster and cheaper transactions while preserving Bitcoin's proof-of-work security model.

Blast is an EVM-compatible L2 offering native yield on ETH and stablecoin balances by default. The chain combines rollup scalability with built-in DeFi incentives, enabling users and apps alike to earn without staking or wrapping assets. Backed by the Blur team, Blast merges passive yield mechanics with a growth-focused ecosystem.

BNB Smart Chain is a fast, low-fee EVM-compatible blockchain backed by Binance. With strong activity across DeFi, gaming, and NFTs, BSC supports high-volume apps in emerging markets and offers a tight integration with Binance’s user base, liquidity, ecosystem bridges, and tooling.

BOB (short for Build on Bitcoin) is an Ethereum L2, built using the OP Stack, that has strong ties to Bitcoin, both in leveraging the chain for security and for its liquidity. BOB hopes to be the main gateway for Bitcoin DeFi with easy onramps for Bitcoin and ERC-20s alike.

Botanix is an EVM-equivalent Layer-2 that brings smart contracts and DeFi to Bitcoin via its Spiderchain architecture. Botanix inherits Bitcoin’s proof-of-work security while slashing block times to ~5s, letting developers deploy Solidity apps and tap BTC liquidity without needing to bridge or wrap Bitcoin.

CelestiaBridge refers to the bridge-node layer that connects Celestia’s consensus network with its data-availability network. These nodes relay block data, verify that it’s available, and expose it to rollups that use Celestia as their DA layer. In practice, this is the infrastructure that lets modular L2s post data to Celestia and still be verifiable by light clients, the plumbing that makes “modular blockchains” actually work.

Celo is a mobile-first, EVM-compatible L2 built with OP-Stack (the chain was formerly an L1 and migrated to Optimism in March 2025). It features ultra-light clients, phone number mapping, and gas fee abstraction for easy smartphone onboarding, and its support of cUSD and cEUR stablecoins power payments in 100+ countries.

Citrea hopes to be Bitcoin's first zero-knowledge rollup. Currently in testnet, this network uses Bitcoin for both settlement and data availability, and its smart contracts help turn Bitcoin into a programmable asset, all without making any changes to the Bitcoin core protocol itself.

Clankermon’s appchain runs on the Syndicate Network and is designed from the ground up for gaming mechanics. Clankermon is a game where tokens become playable "mons" whose rarity and abilities track live market performance.

CrossFi is a cross-chain finance layer that tokenizes real-world collateral (gold, fiat, commodities) and moves it natively across EVM and Cosmos ecosystems. Its hybrid custody model lets TradFi institutions plug into DeFi yield without touching wrapped assets.

Degen is a creator- and community-focused Arbitrum Orbit L3 that uses the viral DEGEN tipping token as its gas asset, making micro-rewards and meme trading essentially free. Designed for community coordination and creator rewards, Degen makes social interaction easily composable.

Dogecoin is a UTXO Layer-1 blockchain that launched in 2013 as a fork of Litecoin. Originally created as a meme cryptocurrency, Dogecoin has grown into one of the most widely-held tokens, using Scrypt proof-of-work and 1-minute block times to enable fast, low-fee transfers.

Ethereum is the leading smart contract platform powering decentralized applications across DeFi, NFTs, gaming, and more. As the most widely adopted blockchain with the largest developer community, Ethereum is the foundation of Web3.

Flow is a high-throughput PoS L1 designed by Dappy Labs for consumer experiences like NBA Top Shot and Mattel Creations. Its multi-node architecture parallelizes workloads, keeping fees low even during viral onchain activity.

Fraxtal is an OP-Stack L2 built by the Frax team to power its stablecoin ecosystem, lending markets, and AMMs. A tight integration with Frax's DeFi primitives lets DeFi builders compose new protocols and apps quickly, and the chain features protocol-level MEV capture and native yield distribution to optimize economic sustainability.

Gensyn is a marketplace protocol for AI compute, helping turn idle GPU clusters into on-demand compute for ML engineers. Using "proof of learning" consensus to verify model training without re-running workloads, Gensyn solves the issue of compute verification without incurring the expense of the compute itself.

Gnosis (formerly xDai) is an EVM-compatible L1 that pairs a stable gas token (xDAI) with security generated by a network of 350K+ validators. Built-in Safe multisig support and bridge SDKs streamline governance, treasury, and cross-chain UX.

Humanity is a Sybil-resistant blockchain that proves user identities with zero knowledge proofs (protecting user data). It powers bot-free social networks, fraud-resistant transactions, access-controlled venues, and more.

HyperEVM is an EVM execution layer embedded in Hyperliquid’s L1 and secured by the same HyperBFT consensus as HyperCore. HyperEVM lets you build apps that can directly integrate with Hyperliquid’s on‑chain spot and perp order books, bringing programmability to one of the most exciting spaces onchain today.

Injective is a Cosmos-SDK L1 purpose-built for finance, offering sub-second block times and zero gas fees for end users. With native support for decentralized exchanges, derivatives, prediction markets, and cross-chain trading, Injective is a leading chain for onchain financial applications.

Ink is a DeFi chain built by Kraken to serve as a seamless birdge to DeFi. Built on the Optimism Superchain, Ink is tightly integrated with Kraken's centralized exchange with on/off ramps that connect your app to all of Kraken's user base.

Jovay is an enterprise-focused Ethereum L2 that uses an AI-optimized TEE-ZK architecture for scalability and zero-trust security. Designed for real-world asset tokenization and institutional DeFi, Jovay bridges compliance-ready financial infrastructure with onchain liquidity.

Katana is a DeFi blockchain designed for deep liquidity and sustainable yield. It concentrates liquidity in core applications and recycles network revenue back into the ecosystem, making it a strong fit for lending, borrowing, and trading apps.

Lens Network is a zkEVM rollup purpose built for LensProtocol's composable social graph. Native handles, follows, and collects are first-class primitives in Lens, letting builders spin up Web3 social apps in minutes.

Linea is a zkEVM rollup developed by Consensys, offering byte-code equivalence to Ethereum. The chain also has tight integrations with other Consensys projects, including MetaMask and Infura. With Linea, you can access sub-second confirmations and native account abstraction while staying inside a familiar Ethereum tooling stack.

Litecoin is a UTXO Layer-1 blockchain launched in 2011 as one of the earliest Bitcoin forks. It uses Scrypt proof-of-work and 2.5-minute block times to enable faster, lower-fee transfers than Bitcoin while keeping a similar security model.

Mantle is a modular optimistic rollup on Ethereum that integrates EigenDA for low-cost, high-performance data availability, driving down fees without sacrificing security. Backed by the BitDAO ecosystem, Mantle provides a large treasury-supported platform to align liquidity, builders, and governance.

MegaETH is an Ethereum L2 described as a “real-time blockchain,” with sub-10 ms block times and 100,000+ transactions per second. By pushing execution to web2-style latency and using Ethereum for settlement and EigenDA-style data availability, it makes on-chain trading, gaming, and social feel instant onchain.

Metis is an optimistic rollup built on Ethereum that introduces native support for DACs—Decentralized Autonomous Companies. The network blends scalability with tools for onchain governance, reputation, and operational coordination.

Mode is an OP Stack L2 in the Optimism Superchain, and powered by "DeFAI" with a strong focus emphasis on enabling DeFi and AI agents. With a native perpetuals DEX and an AI Terminal to drive AI agent activity, Mode is building a new onchain economy that rewards contributions to network growth.

Monad is a next generation L1 blockchain that is fully compatible with Ethereum while offering 10K+ transactions per second and low gas fees.

Moonbeam is Polkadot's first parachain, bringing EVM-compatibility and familiar tools for Ethereum devs, while offering native cross-chain messaging across other Polkadot ecosystems. With over 200 live apps across real world assets, gaming, DeFi, emerging markets, and more, Moonbeam merges Ethereum UX with Polkadot's interoperability.

Mythos is a gaming-focused blockchain designed to make Web3 game development and distribution feel seamless. It provides a shared infrastructure for onchain assets, marketplaces, and gameplay economies, allowing developers to ship scalable games while giving players true ownership and interoperability across the Mythos ecosystem.

OP Mainnet (Optimism) is an optimistic rollup built on the OP Stack, pairing low fees with a governance model that funnels sequencer revenue into public-goods funding. It anchors a fast-growing ecosystem of L2-native apps and is the backbone of the Superchain, a collective of L2 blockchains all built using the OP Stack.

opBNB is Binance's OP-Stack L2, marrying Ethereum's security with BNB chain's large user funnel and deep liqudity. With a deep integration to Binance's infrastructure, opBNB is a fast onramp for consumer apps looking to reach a massive user base.

Atlantic is Pharos's primary public testnet. It lets developers test EVM-compatible applications on Pharos's high-performance Layer-1 before deploying to mainnet.

Plasma is an L1 blockchain designed ground-up for stablecoins. With ties to Tether, Plasma delivers near-instant transfers with zero fees. Alongside throughput that can support global reach, Plasma offers Bitcoin-backed security with periodic anchoring to the most battle-tested blockchain.

Polygon PoS is Ethereum’s flagship side-chain offering ultra-low fees and full EVM compatibility, letting mainstream brands like Reddit and Nike reach millions of users. Its broad validator set and deep liquidity make it the default on-ramp to the Polygon ecosystem.

Polygon zkEVM is a zk-rollup with bytecode-equivalence to Ethereum, delivering low fees without changing developer workflows. It allows developers to migrate existing Solidity contracts without changes. As part of the Polygon ecosystem, it inherits Ethereum security while keeping transactions cheap and private, thanks to validity proofs.

Rise is an Ethereum L2 designed for high-speed, high-throughput applications while preserving Ethereum finality. Rise mainnet gives builders a production network for low-latency onchain apps across trading, gaming, and consumer experiences.

Robinhood Chain is a permissionless, Ethereum-compatible L2 from Robinhood built on Arbitrum. Designed for onchain financial infrastructure, Robinhood Chain handles tokenized real-world assets, crypto, and traditional markets. This testnet lets developers build and test with free test tokens before mainnet.

Ronin is a gaming-first blockchain developed by Sky Mavis and powers titles like Axie Infinity, handling millions of daily transactions at sub-cent gas fees. Ronin is a proven platform for scaling player-owned game economies.

Rootstock is an EVM-compatible Bitcoin sidechain, bringing Solidity smart contracts to the world of Bitcoin. Users can bridge their Bitcoin into Rootstock and deploy BTC liquidity into Solidity-powered DeFi.

Scroll is a zkEVM rollup offering bytecode equivalence with Ethereum. Developed in close alignment with the Ethereum Foundation, Scroll is designed as censorship-resistant infrastructure for large-scale applications.

Sei is a Cosmos-SDK L1, optimized for order-book DeFi, leveraging parallel transaction processing to achieve 300ms block times. With native price matching, Sei is ideal for bringing the experiences of traditional financial institutions and CEXs onchain.

Settlus provides a transparent settlement system for creators via its L2 chain built with the OP-Stack. Offering programmable payouts, royalty rights, and more, Settlus gives power to the creator economy.

Shape is an Ethereum L2 purpose-built for NFT creators. Creators on Shape can claim 80% of sequencer fees that users spend when interacting with their contracts. Same security as Ethereum, same tech stack, better costs and creator incentives.

Solana is a high-speed blockchain known for its fast transaction processing and low fees, making it a preferred choice for high-volume apps that demand performance. With the second largest developer community, Solana pushes the boundaries of what's possible onchain today.

Soneium is a next-gen, high-performance blockchain built to power DeFi and NFT platforms with low-latency and secure architecture. Designed for developers building cutting-edge blockchain applications, it supports scalable blockchain infrastructure for global dApps.

Sonic is the next evolution of Fantom, a fast, EVM-compatible L1 offering 10,000 TPS and sub-second finality. App developers can also earn up to 90% of the protocol fees generated by their application, making Sonic a founder-friendly chain.

Stable is a L1 "stablechain" designed for USDT payments that uses USDT for gas and is optimized for high volume payment transactions.

Starknet is a zk-rollup powered by the Cairo programming language, bringing STARK validity proofs to Ethereum for provably scalable computation. Starknet's native account abstraction and recursive proofs open the door to on-chain games and complex DeFi logic.

Stellar is a decentralized blockchain purpose-built for financial services, powering cross-border payments, asset tokenization, and stablecoin infrastructure at scale. With sub-cent transaction fees and near-instant finality, Stellar is used by major institutions including Franklin Templeton, PayPal, and MoneyGram.

Story is an EVM-compatible L1 that tokenizes intellectual property into programmable onchain assets, embedding licensing terms, revenue splits, AI-driven derivations, and more. It treats IP as the scarce store-of-value for the coming generative-AI economy

Sui is a high-performance L1 from Mysten Labs that leverages an object-centric data model and the Move programming language to parallelize transactions. Native chain features like zkLogin and sponsored transactions create a familiar Web2 experience, great for consumer apps, gaming, and more.

Superseed is a chain designed around self-repaying loans. Built on the Optimism stack, this L2 uses a new financial primitive of "supercollateral" to supercharge DeFi protocols in its ecosystem.

Tempo is a Layer-1 blockchain backed by Stripe and Paradigm that’s purpose-built for payments at internet scale. Unlike general-purpose chains, Tempo is architected around the demands of production payment systems: predictable fees, sub-second finality, over 100K TPS, and dedicated payment lanes that guarantee blockspace for transfers even during congestion. Tempo also introduces the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), an open standard for how AI agents pay for services, along with native account abstraction, a compliance-ready token standard (TIP-20), and the ability to pay gas in stablecoins.

Tron is a high-throughput L1 that has become one of the largest rails for stablecoin transfers, especially in emerging markets. With consistently low fees and EVM-compatability, Tron has become a popular chain for builders worldwide.

Unichain is an OP-Stack L2 that unifies fragmented onchain liquidity via order flow auction, routing and executing trades at the best prices across all its connected AMMs. Built in oracles and MEV-resistant matching make Unichain a popular settlement layer for DeFi aggregators.

World Chain is an Ethereum rollup powered by Alchemy that connects to World ID, an anonymous identity verification protocol with over 15M verified humans. It natively integrates these anonymous identities to prioritize human transactions with priority block space, gas rebates, and keeping transactions affordable for real users, not for bots.

World Mobile Chain is an EVM-compatible L3 on Base and is purpose built for telecoms. With a product stack offering AirNodes, VPN, storage-as-a-service, eSIMs, decentralized identifiers, and more, World Mobile Chain opens the door for DePIN use cases, connectivity in underserved regions, and full data sovereignty.

X Layer is a zkEVM Layer 2 built by OKX using Polygon CDK. It uses OKB as its native gas token and connects OKX's 50M+ users with the broader Ethereum ecosystem, offering low fees and full EVM compatibility via zero-knowledge proofs.

This is the primary testnet for the XMTP network.

ZetaChain is a Cosmos-SDK omnichain L1 with built-in cross-chain message passing, letting developers call contracts across Bitcoin, Ethereum and Cosmos zones from a single hub. This focus on multichain interoperability easily enables apps to build across multiple ecosystems without relying on bridges and wrapped tokens.

zkSync Era is an Ethereum zkEVM rollup that emphasizes account abstraction and L2 composability. It offers fast finality, low fees, and secure execution with a developer-friendly UX. zkSync aims to unlock new app design patterns while preserving Ethereum tooling.

Zora is a creator-first, OP-Stack L2 designed for NFTs and media-centric apps. Zora offers free mints, programmable royalties, and protocol modules for drops, editions, and auctions. The chain gained notoriety earlier in the year with the launch of the Zora app (a social feed that enabled creators to launch their own coin and earn for posting).