As #SKALE V2 goes live, we're also pleased to confirm that the Europa Initiative is also launching - ensuring that every SKALE #dApp will have access to compatible versions of bridged tokens.
#SKALE V2 is a massively performant, flexible ecosystem of Ethereum-compatible chains with unlimited scalability.
As an open, permissionless network, SKALE doesn't impose any token standards on its bridges.
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(The bridges are decentralized and transactions are practically instant between SKALE Chains, by the way. Bridging between SKALE and Ethereum mainnet takes just 18 seconds - lightning fast by industry standards.)
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So far, so good.
But without some means of standardizing token mapping across the SKALEVERSE, dApp chains would end up using different and incompatible versions of tokens like $ETH, $BTC, $USDC, etc.
Result: Liquidity fragmentation 😱
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Europa is the community-proposed solution to this issue, since it's best to deal with this kind of thing via social consensus than a decree from above (which would not be very decentralized).
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Europa is a shared #SKALE Chain that hosts a cluster of liquidity-focused dApps and services, plus an #Ethereum mainnet bridge - making it the default entry point into the SKALEVERSE for users and tokens.
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TL;DR
No fragmentation, just deep, network-wide liquidity, on-demand for all.