For years, the single most important problem to solve in the blockchain space was performance. Ethereum got clogged with cat NFTs and the industry responded with numerous solutions competing to make blockspace performant again.

Fluent Labs has raised $8M, led by Polychain Capital, to expand its core team and advance blended execution as the industry standard.

Over the past couple of years, there’s been no shortage of pessimistic discourse. Some of the sentiment reflects a prolonged bear market. Some of it reflects healthy skepticism. Some of it reflects financial nihilism. How many times have you heard the following:

If you’ve been following the Fluent journey, you know that Private Devnet V1 was shipped about six months ago and Private Devnet V2 was shipped about four months ago.

Existing general purpose blockchains support apps targeting one virtual machine (VM). They offer single execution of smart contracts written in the VM’s supported programming language(s).

This upgrade features 100% EVM compatibility, letting developers build smart contracts in Solidity and Vyper, as well as a new and improved Rust SDK.

We are thrilled to announce Fluent’s private devnet, a major step in our journey to help web3 onboard millions of developers and power the next generation of scalable apps on Ethereum.

Rollups have the ecosystem buzzing with controversy. If you're scratching your head trying to make sense of it all, you’re not alone. We’ve noticed there aren’t many pieces of content that bring rollup architectures together in a digestible way, so we’ve decided to take a stab.

Supporting general-purpose languages not only creates a more intuitive experience for web3-native devs, but also enable millions of new developers to build onchain.