Last updated on November 26th, 2022

If you have been using a non-custodial wallet like Metamask, you may have come across this term known as ‘EVM-compatibility’. What does this mean, and which networks can be considered to be EVM-compatible? Here’s what you need to know:

What is an EVM-compatible network?

An Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible blockchain means that the programming language used by the blockchain network is the same as the Ethereum network (Solidity). This allows developers to port their smart contract code on the Ethereum blockchain to another EVM-compatible network. You can think of EVM-compatible networks as networks that have copied the original code of Ethereum. This is because Ethereum was the first blockchain network to have introduced smart contracts, so developers would have built their decentralised apps using the Solidity language. However, the Ethereum network is slower and more expensive compared to newer networks that...