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In 2024, Axelar took massive strides toward making true multichain interoperability a reality. From unlocking new design spaces for builders to connecting more than 69 chains to unveiling the Mobius Development Stack. 2024 proved that Axelar is here ...

Discover how to leverage Axelar MDS to build innovative cross-chain applications that unlock new possibilities in DeFi, NFTs, enterprise solutions and beyond. This guide provides practical implementation patterns and architecture examples to help you create powerful chain-agnostic applications.

Welcome to the November 2024 Axelar Developer Newsletter! About Axelar: Axelar is the Web3 interoperability platform, delivering the shortest path to scale: an open stack to connect all blockchains. Adopters include Uniswap, Microsoft, and dozens of ...

Axelar MDS is a new interoperability standard leveraging enhanced AXL token utility to power infinite security and scalability across Web3. This post explains AXL's new token utility in Axelar MDS as well as its general utility across the Axelar protocol.

Update reveals key components provided by Memento Blockchain and Axelar in tokenized-assets pilot led by Deutsche Bank

When building a Web3 application such as a decentralized exchange, cross-chain functionality can offer tremendous growth opportunities. Cross-chain functionality allows more users to interact with the application and more liquidity to enter the appli...

We're excited to unveil the Interchain Token Service (ITS), the latest advancement in blockchain interoperability. This service is designed to broaden the horizons for developers working across multiple blockchain ecosystems, enabling a seamless and ...

Welcome to the October 2024 Axelar Developer Newsletter! About Axelar: Axelar is the Web3 interoperability platform, delivering the shortest path to scale: an open stack to connect all blockchains. Adopters include Uniswap, Microsoft, and dozens of n...

Axelar Foundation and the TON Foundation announced today that TON, the open network, will be integrating Axelar’s Mobius Development Stack (MDS) as an interoperability platform, following a comprehensive evaluation of cross-chain solutions.

We’re pleased to announce the release of ampd version 1.2. What is ampd? ampd is part of the Interchain Amplifier. It is a daemon that is run by verifiers who form the decentralized group that vote on the truthfulness of cross-chain transactions. amp...

Today, we see many different networks, each with its own strengths and limitations. This has created significant challenges, leading to scattered liquidity and complicated user experiences, especially in Real World Asset (RWA) lending. To tackle thes...

Axelar's Mobius Development Stack (MDS) is now launched. It's only the beginning.

Axelar MDS is a new interoperability standard leveraging enhanced AXL token utility to power infinite security and scalability across Web3.

The web3 industry has developed as much of a culture as it has a technology. A large part of that culture has been the rise of memecoins. Originally pioneered by Dogecoin, memecoins have emerged as a fun, lighthearted way for people to grow communiti...

Multichain applications are becoming the new norm, but managing governance across these networks remains a significant challenge. For decentralized applications (dApps) with deployments on multiple blockchains, ensuring an easy governance processes w...

We're excited to announce that the Foundry Axelar GMP Example repository now features integration with Axelar's Interchain Token Service (ITS). This update empowers developers to build cross-chain applications more efficiently, simplifying the deploy...

Welcome to the August 2024 Axelar Developer Newsletter. This month, Axelar takes giant leaps in cross-chain interoperability with our mainnet upgrade, Interchain Amplifier hitting testnet, and a collaboration with OpenZeppelin. 🆙 Axelar Network upg...

OpenZeppelin, the standard for secure blockchain applications, and Interop Labs, the initial developer of Axelar, have announced a strategic collaboration to develop open-source standards and development resources for cross-chain communication. This initiative will enhance interoperability across the rapidly expanding Ethereum L2 landscape and the broader Axelar-connected chains. 

Establishing Lido’s First Canonical Connection Outside the Ethereum L2 Ecosystem

Welcome to the June 2024 Axelar Developer Newsletter. You can subscribe to the Axelar Developer Newsletter to get direct updates. Interchain Amplifier is Going Live on Testnet Testing phase to begin Friday. We're excited to share that the Interchain...

As the web3 ecosystem continues to grow and more blockchains enter the industry, ensuring that your token is available on multiple chains is essential for the success of your application. What is also essential is that your token can be sent across t...

Objective In section one, you built an upgradable custom ERC20 stablecoin, that accrues value for token holders and burns a percentage of each token transfer to address token inflation. You also began building a factory contract that integrated with ...

If you have followed the Axelar setup instructions for getting axelard and tofnd but keep running into a command not found error, try navigating to the folder your binary is in and referring directly to that binary instead of setting up an alias. Mak...

Welcome to the June 2024 Axelar Developer Newsletter. You can subscribe to the Axelar Developer Newsletter to get direct updates. Celebrating 2 Million Cross-Chain Transactions and 13 million Blocks Special thanks to all the protocols, builders, an...

As a developer building decentralized applications and smart contracts, a testnet acts as your production environment. It allows you to build, test, and deploy before moving to the mainnet, providing a safe and secure environment for testing your app...

Citi, Deutsche Bank, Mastercard, Northern Trust and Centrifuge provide insights on paths to secure, multichain asset tokenization for report produced by Axelar Foundation and Metrika

Axelar Interchain Amplifier now integrates with Rollkit The Axelar Foundation has announced an integration with Celestia Labs, simplifying multichain interoperability for sovereign blockchains built with Rollkit, the first sovereign rollup framework...

Following the migration, the Kava community selected Axelar to bridge away any remaining assets that were stranded after the migration. Using various Axelar services, users are able to bridge BEP3 assets to Binance Smart Chain for BEP20 assets.

Bitcoin, Polkadot, Hedera connections demonstrate Interchain Amplifier’s fast route to interoperability for any consensus approach.

Axelar Interchain Amplifier’s Integration With Rollkit Streamlines the Creation of Interoperable Rollups, Making it as Simple as Developing any Smart Contract.

We've been busy developing and launching various tools to support developers in succeeding with Axelar. We're thrilled that the axelar-examples repository now supports the Interchain Token Service (ITS) for local and testnet testing. This repository...

Learn how to deploy a smart contract at the same address across different blockchains

Testing your application is critical before going to production, especially in Web3. Axelar Local Dev allows you to simulate interchain transactions on the Axelar Gateway right on your local machine. This provides a Ganache-like testing experience be...

Late last year, we announced the Foundry Axelar GMP Example repository. This showcases an example of integrating with Axelar's General Message Passing (GMP) using the Foundry framework. We're thrilled to announce that the Foundry Axelar GMP Example ...

Axelar's Interchain Token Service (ITS) is designed to help developers work across multiple blockchain ecosystems, enabling a seamless and secure way to create and manage tokens across different blockchains. This powerful tool offers incredible featu...

We want to inform you that all Goerli-type chains on the Axelar testnet have been deactivated following the Ethereum Foundation's Goerli deprecation announcement earlier this year. This move makes way for additional support on Ethereum Sepolia and al...