Despite Cardano’s weak price action over the past week, its new partnerships are garnering renewed interest. Recently, the network forayed its digital focus to Africa. After signing a deal with the Ethiopian government earlier this year, Cardano signed another Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Burundi government.
This was while Ethiopia-based Atala Prism management solution by Cardano made it to the list of most influential projects for 2021.
Meanwhile, competitor Ethereum, recently executed its Altair upgrade. As the Beacon chains upgrade moved the network closer to ETH 2.0, Ethereum is also seeing a record high surge in its price. Having said that, ETH remained bullish on Friday, as it hovered over the $4,400 levels at press time.
Interestingly, both the smart chains are presenting a strong case in the dApps ecosystem. Cardano recently laid out new certification levels for the smart contract, along with other partnerships announced through its September Summit. Ethereum, on the other hand, is buckling up for “The Merge” while dominating close to 68% of the DeFi TVL.
Amid the rising interest, digital provider Solodev has also incorporated both the smart chains in its cloud offerings. In a recent release, Solodev stated that the two leading smart chains will enable developers and organizations to build applications that integrate with their cloud and digital marketing services.
Matt Garrepy, Chief Digital Officer at Solodev said,
“By offering Cardano and Ethereum, we’re giving our customers the tools to successfully build with blockchain, accept crypto payments at scale – and own the future.”
The aim is to essentially allow developers to launch DeFi, crypto, and NFT offerings on a cloud platform. Also, ADA and ETH will be available on Solodev’s marketplace storefront, to accept crypto payments for its e-commerce transactions around cloud applications.
In the context of utility, Solodev acknowledged that Cardano will allow “faster and…
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