Horizena leading public layer-0 blockchain, announced a strategic partnership with Anchor, a leading Web3 infrastructure provider, to enhance the capabilities of EON, Horizen’s EVM-enabled smart contract platform. The partnership will leverage Ankr’s industry-leading Web3 infrastructure and services to provide additional accessibility, scalability, and reliability to the growing EON ecosystem, which supports various use cases such as DeFi, games and NFTs.
Ankr becomes one of the first RPC providers for EON
As part of this collaboration, Ankr will become one of the first remote procedure call (RPC) providers for EON, which is Horizen’s fully EVM-compliant smart contract platform and the first of many contract side chains. intelligent on the Horizen ecosystem. An RPC is a protocol that allows a program to request a service from another program located on another computer on a network. By providing a high-performance RPC node infrastructure, Ankr will allow EON to handle any request load, making it more scalable and efficient for developers and end users.
Josh Neuroth, Product Manager at Ankr, said, “Our collaboration with Horizen demonstrates Ankr’s dedication to developers looking to create innovative solutions upgraded by the zero-knowledge movement. By providing easily accessible connections to EON, Ankr can help power the cutting edge of smart contract technology as it plays a vital role in scaling Web3 for the next billion users.
Ankr provides a suite of development tools for EON
In addition to providing RPC services, Ankr will also offer a suite of developer tools to help build and deploy smart contract applications on EON quickly and easily. These tools include Liquid Staking SDK, Web3 Gaming SDK, and AppChains As a Service, enabling dApp developers to build innovative and scalable Web3 apps on EON.
Rob Viglione, co-founder of Horizen, expressed his excitement about the partnership, saying, “The collaboration between Horizen and Ankr will greatly enhance the capabilities of the EON ecosystem, delivering unparalleled value to developers and users. Ankr’s cutting-edge technology and suite of developer tools will not only enhance EON’s scalability and accessibility, but also enable our developers to build innovative, secure, and efficient dApps across a variety of use cases.
Horizen and Ankr Create a Permissionless, Interoperable and Customizable Blockchain Ecosystem
Horizen is a public layer-0 blockchain that enables the zero-knowledge blockchain network powered by the largest node system and a massively scalable cross-chain protocol, Zendoo. Horizen offers tools for developers to build custom blockchains and private or public dApps with a level of flexibility unmatched by others. Horizen is EVM compatible thanks to its EON sidechain.
Ankr is a decentralized web3 infrastructure company that provides services to over 30 proof-of-stake chains via a leading global node delivery system and RPC aggregator. Handling more than 2 trillion transactions per year on Web3, Ankr has established itself as the leading infrastructure provider for blockchains such as BSC, Fantom and Polygon.
The partnership between Horizen and Ankr brings significant dynamics to the EON ecosystem. With EON already live on its permanent public testnet, Gobi, and supported by a range of products, integrations and tools, the addition of Ankr’s services further enriches the ecosystem. The combination of EON’s EVM compatibility, Horizen’s zero-knowledge cross-chain protocol, and Ankr’s state-of-the-art Web3 infrastructure will create a permissionless, interoperable, and customizable blockchain ecosystem for developers and users. Interestingly, exciting times lie ahead as the EON ecosystem prepares to welcome a slew of dApps and services in the coming months.
Conclusion
The strategic partnership between Horizen and Ankr is a significant milestone for both companies and for the Web3 space as a whole. It shows how public layer-0 blockchains can collaborate with Web3 infrastructure providers to deliver innovative solutions that leverage zero-knowledge technology and smart contract functionality. By improving the accessibility, scalability and reliability of the EON smart outsourcing platform, Horizen and Ankr aim to enable developers and users to build and enjoy various applications in various fields such as DeFi, games and NFTs. The partnership also shows how Web3 can scale for the next billion users by creating a permissionless, interoperable, and customizable blockchain ecosystem that respects user privacy and sovereignty.
