Babylon offers Bitcoin Security to Layer-1 Blockchain Kava through its testnet integration
With the evolution of web3 infrastructure, developers are faced with the challenge of choosing from a diverse range of blockchains, offering the best features for smart contract and dapp development. In this scenario, interoperability has become the key to enabling developers to reap the benefits of multiple chains.
Babylon is thrilled to announce its testnet integration with Kava, a layer-1 blockchain that brings together the speed and scalability of the Cosmos SDK and the developer community and resources of the Ethereum ecosystem.
The integration brings an additional layer of Bitcoin security to Kava, providing users with even greater confidence in the safety of their transactions. Additionally, Babylon’s innovative approach also allows for PoS chains to significantly reduce their secure stake unbonding time from weeks to as little as a few hours.
Reduced Stake Unbonding Periods with Babylon
Unbonding periods generally last weeks because they serve as a trust period where users can return to the chain and safely re-synchronize to the chain knowing any attacks that may have occurred while they were away will have already been slashed. For instance, unbonding requests on Cosmos chains typically takes 21 days.
The integration of Babylon's innovative Bitcoin-powered security architecture significantly mitigates these risks, effectively negating the need for a prolonged trust period. It achieves this by using Bitcoin timestamps, allowing users to distinguish the genuine chain from the attack chain, as the latter would have a later Bitcoin timestamp.
In the context of the Cosmos chain, the typical duration for unbonding requests is around 21 days. But with Babylon's application of Bitcoin security, this process is significantly expedited. Users only have to wait for the Bitcoin timestamp of their unbonding request transaction to gain sufficient confirmation on the Bitcoin blockchain - approximately after 100 Bitcoin blocks, which generally takes about a day.
What the Babylon integration brings to Kava in terms of stake unbonding is a secure and reliable unbonding process regardless of how long or short Kava desires.
Leveraging Bitcoin Security for PoS Chains
Proof-of-stake chains provide their users with the benefits of scalability and performance. With the rise of advanced use-cases catered by these chains, comes the need for robust security architectures. Babylon aims to enhance the security of PoS chains such as the Kava Network through Bitcoin timestamping.
Bitcoin is considered the most secure blockchain. Its mighty PoW mining power provides reliable and irreversible timestamps to Bitcoin transactions. The result yields irreversible timestamps — immutably ordered list of transactions and, thus, an immutable ledger. Babylon brings Bitcoin security to Kava by allowing Kava blocks (and the transactions therein) to be time stamped onto the Bitcoin network. The integration arguably makes integrated Cosmos zones, most secure PoS chains in the world, as the Babylon solution combines the best of both worlds, Proof of Stake (PoS) & Proof of Work (PoW) security mechanisms. Additionally, channeling the value of PoS ecosystems into the Bitcoin network.
With the rise in cross-chain applications, Babylon’s testnet integration with Kava aims to break the limitations of PoS chains to provide a secure, scalable, and interoperable environment for developers to build the future of cross-chain experiences in web3.
About Kava Network
The Kava Network is a Layer-1 blockchain that combines the speed and scalability of the Cosmos SDK with the developer support of Ethereum. The Kava Network will empower developers to build for Web3 and next-gen blockchain technologies through its unique co-chain architecture. KAVA is the native governance and staking token of the Kava Network, enabling its decentralization and security.
Kava network enables seamless interoperability between the Ethereum and Cosmos Co-Chains empowering developers to build in whichever environment they want without sacrificing access to the users and assets of the other. Kava’s lightning-fast Tendermint Core consensus engine enables the free flow of users, assets, and projects between Kava and the industry’s most relevant ecosystems at scale. The Kava network also stands as the only blockchain with a native issuance of USDT that seamlessly connects to the Cosmos ecosystem.
Kava network also features an innovative and transparent on-chain incentive program, Kava Rise, to ensure that the best builders in the Ethereum and Cosmos ecosystems are properly rewarded for driving growth to the Kava Network.
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