Cartesi is Integrating with Injective Protocol to Enable Mainstream Developer Adoption

Colin Steil
Cartesi
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3 min readMar 18, 2021

Cartesi is integrating with Injective Protocol to enable mainstream developer adoption of the Injective Chain. Cartesi and Injective will enter into a research collaboration, exploring how to integrate Cartesi’s tools into the Injective ecosystem. The aim is to allow developers to utilize familiar programming tools from the world’s leading OS, unlocking tremendous smart contract capabilities offered by the highly interoperable and flexible Injective Chain — enabled by Cartesi.

The main objective of this initiative is to enhance the programmability on the Injective Chain, giving Injective’s developers more opportunities than ever to launch new applications on top of their chain as a result of Cartesi. This can include new front-end interfaces as well as new trading mechanisms for derivatives, such as an AMM.

Enabling Mainstream Developer Adoption

A major roadblock for anyone new to the crypto industry is the learning curve required to code secure smart contracts. Typically, a developer needs to familiarize themselves with Solidity (an object-oriented programming smart contract language) to launch new decentralized applications (DApps) on layer one chains such as Ethereum.

Cartesi offers a viable solution to this conundrum by allowing developers to code using mainstream software stacks supported by Linux, which stands as a major OS globally. This vastly helps to increase opportunities for mainstream developers to be able to onboard onto crypto-native networks.

By offering a new programming environment, Cartesi greatly aids in accelerating the level of support for Injective’s burgeoning developer community. Injective was designed from day one to be a market-leading bespoke application-specific chain for derivatives trading. Given the flexible nature of Injective’s chain, developers can launch a diverse array of DApps on top of Injective. These applications can cover a great number of sectors such as new frontend interfaces or even new digital assets.

Cartesi’s integration with Injective allows developers to launch complex DeFi derivative DApps on the Injective Chain by using mainstream programming tools.

“I am very excited to collaborate with Injective’s team, bringing Cartesi to its growing ecosystem. Today, existing blockchain application developers are limited in their coding abilities and millions of mainstream software developers are left outside because they don’t find their everyday languages and tools to build DApps. Bridging Linux and mainstream software with Injective will be an important catalyst for broad adoption of both technologies.” — said Erick de Moura, Cartesi’s CEO.

Injective also plans to launch new derivative products that utilize the native Cartesi Token (CTSI), thereby offering new avenues for individuals to access the Cartesi network itself.

“Our work with Cartesi will be a tremendous boon for broad developer adoption within the decentralized trading ecosystem. Both projects are part of the Binance family, so it is an exciting step in our journey to deepen this relationship further,” said Eric Chen, Injective CEO.

Making Injective a Developer Friendly Derivatives Exchange

This integration is important in that it serves as an additional avenue through which mainstream developers and audiences can interact with Injective moving forward.

Anyone with an interest in Cartesi, Injective, or with questions of any sort is welcome to join Cartesi’s development community on Discord!

About Injective Protocol

Injective Protocol is the first layer-2 decentralized exchange protocol that unlocks the full potential of decentralized derivatives and borderless DeFi. Injective Protocol enables fully decentralized trading without any restrictions, allowing individuals to trade on any derivative market of their choosing. Injective Protocol is backed by a prominent group of stakeholders including Pantera Capital, one of the most renowned venture capital firms in the world, and the leading cryptocurrency exchange, Binance.

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About Cartesi

Cartesi is taking smart contracts to the next level. It is a chain-agnostic layer-2 infrastructure, solving the pressing problem of scalability on the most important blockchains. Most notably, Cartesi implements a unique Linux-supporting VM, rollups and side-chains to revolutionize the way developers create blockchain applications, allowing them to use mainstream software components.

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