Fireblocks Integrates Astar Network, Boosting Secure DeFi Access for Institutions

Fireblocks has now incorporated Astar Network. With the new integration, over 650 banks and financial institutions can now tap into Astar's thriving DeFi ecosystem, as well as trade, swap, and lend digital assets on Astar via Fireblocks.

Timeline of Astar

The Astar Foundation, the blockchain developer group behind Astar Network, a smart contract platform for multichain, announced on July 11 a strategic Web3 partnership with NTT Digital to create Web3 training programs and improve network infrastructure.

Astar Network, an EVM-compatible cross-chain platform, is set to accomplish impressive new milestones. Its ambitious Astar 2.0 Vision roadmap paves the way for a new level of interoperability, sustainability and developer friendliness.

The smart contract platform for multichain, Astar Network, announced on June 15 that it would be introducing ‘Astar 2.0 Vision' to drive mainstream adoption of Web3 to billions of people.

One of the largest railway companies in Japan scores a partnership with the most popular Japanese L1 blockchain, Astar Network. A series of commemorative non-fungible tokens will be released to the general public.

Astar Network, one of the first parachain protocols on the Polkadot network, has tapped its third major exchange listing in Japan. According to a Twitter update from Sota Watanabe, co-founder of the Astar Network, the listing will be on Huobi Japan and will help place Astar on the green list by the country's market regulators.

Astar Network is launching the second iteration of its smart contracts that support both Ethereum Virtual Machine and WebAssembly Virtual Machine on its mainnet on April 6. The Astar team invited community members to a panel discussion led by its executives and Polkadot developers to discuss how WASM can be utilized.

Astar Network, one of the first parachains to come to the Polkadot ecosystem, has announced that it will launch Smart Contracts 2.0, the WebAssembly (WASM) smart contracts that extend the Web3 functionality of EVM, on the mainnet at 14:00 UTC on Thursday, April 6, 2023.

Now that the extreme hype wave around Web3 and Metaverse projects has relaxed, the door has opened for blockchain projects geared toward practical applications to thrive. An ecosystem under less public scrutiny at every turn can develop meaningful products without unnecessary oversight.

On Feb. 17, 2023, Tokyo-based Sony Network Communications announced that it is co-hosting a Web3 incubation program with the multichain smart contract platform Astar Network. The program has started accepting applications, and Sony and Astar will jointly mentor Web3 projects “focused on the utility” of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs).

Astar Network (ASTR), one of the parachains of the Polkadot blockchain is seeing intense price action today. According to data from CoinMarketCap, Astar Network is changing hands at $0.0797, up 24% over the past 24 hours and 30.05% over the past week.