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:

• “Where are all the apps”

• “Token is the only product”

• “Money is the only use case”

Recently, altVMs have sparked a change. They usher in new technical features such as parallel execution, formal verification, local fee markets, dozens of programming languages, millions of software libraries, privacy, etc. but just as importantly a fresh mindset towards apps and builders. altVMs are making people optimistic again.

How is Fluent contributing to that mission?

Blended execution is a new way to build smart contract applications using programming languages and tools from different virtual machines. This results in real-time, atomic composability between otherwise isolated environments, making it possible for developers to create cohesive applications, leveraging multiple programming paradigms.

Blended applications operate within a blended execution environment. They take the best tools for each part of an application and make them work as one, resulting in better performance, flexibility and usability.

Ok this sounds cool, but do devs care? Are people building? Do blended applications actually look different?

Yes :) Introducing the Fluent ecosystem, including 7 blended applications leveraging functionality uniquely possible on Fluent.

The ecosystem also consists of 50 other apps and infra providers, including Hyperdrive, Timeswap and Dora, joining the mission to build a net-new environment where EVM, SVM and Wasm apps can all co-exist.

Now, let’s zoom in on a few of these blended apps:

• Archetypal Labs is building The O’Ruggin Trail, a fully onchain text adventure written in Solidity that leverages blended execution to enable game modding in both Solidity and Rust. Ultimately Fluent will support AssemblyScript and Lua to broaden the design space even further.

• Griffy is a prediction market where users can trade in 150+ categories, from sports to celebrities. Griffy will be written in SVM Rust and support ERC-20 tokens, uniquely enabled by a blended execution environment.

• Blocarrat is the first fully onchain baccarat game blending Rust smart contracts for its game engine with Solidity contracts for managing wagers and settlement. Fluent’s parallelized environment offers real-time performance for live game play, and the blending of contracts enables a non-custodial wagering experience with ERC-20 tokens.

• Klyra is building a cross-chain compatibility layer for a market making and clearing protocol. Instead of having a separate system that checks balances between EVM and SVM environments, Fluent enables a single system where signed transactions can be accepted across multiple chains yet balances can be managed internally at one layer (think how Thorchain manages balances across chains but without multisigs). Solana transaction verification is achieved on Fluent using Rust by creating a simple precompile. While this is theoretically possible on EVM chains, parsing Solana transactions poses significant overhead that is expensive on a 32-byte stack due to incompatible cryptography (ed25519).

That’s just what’s being built right now. Other unique developer experiences uniquely possible on Fluent include:

• DeFi apps that support both ERC-20 and SPL tokens

• Encrypted onchain operations like hidden data for games or data-invisible AI computations using FHE

• Solidity programs that interact with Rust agents

• Private multi-sigs with cheap signature verification and dynamic custody set updates using the Schnorr signature scheme for threshold encryption

In the coming weeks, emerging blended apps will be spotlighted, showcasing how blended execution offers an alternative to current blockchain programming models, enabling fresh applications.

Let’s move beyond copy pasta mindset and build different. You can check out the dev resources and already experiment with deploying blended apps on Fluent Devnet. Got a question? Slide into the Discord or the Telegram builder’s chat and say hi 🤙