Why Solana VM?

Why build on Nitro?

Over the past few years, Solidity and EVM have grown to become a development standard across crypto with major Layer 1’s all adopting the EVM standard. Nitro is taking the first step in making the Solana VM (SVM) a core development standard like the EVM.

As the first SVM-compatible chain, Nitro gives Solana developers access to the rapidly growing Cosmos ecosystem and allows IBC assets to work with Solana apps. Nitro blends together the powerful Sealevel execution environment with the interoperability core to IBC. Nitro accelerates the growth of builders in crypto and DeFi broadly by driving forward the SVM standard, making it easier for Solana teams to address a bigger audience.

Nitro offers a number of unique use cases that can be drawn from the collective ecosystems of Solana and Cosmos. Read the 'How Nitro Works' document to read some of the interesting developments possible with Nitro.