The firm behind the Cardano blockchain has been developing a set of tools to enable the creation of sidechains, with the first already deployed as a public testnet.

On Jan. 12, IOG stated that the team has constructed an Ethereum virtual machine (EVM)-compatible sidechain as a proof of concept.

“Sidechains make Cardano extensible and more scalable without compromising the stability or security of the main chain,” the blog post explained.

(By Martin Young)