Quick Summary

c8ntinuum is a forward-compatible EVM chain. Your existing Solidity contracts, development tools, and workflows work without modification. The enhancements below are additions that don’t break any existing patterns.

Ethereum Compatibility

What’s Unique to c8ntinuum

Precompile Categories

c8ntinuum exposes a curated set of precompiles that go far beyond standard Cosmos EVM: Interoperability & Verification
  • IBC light clients (ics02) and token transfers (ics20)
  • zkVM proof verification — SP1 Groth16/Plonk verifiers and Poseidon hash
  • Ed25519 signature verification
Advanced Cryptography
  • Post-quantum signatures: ML-DSA, SLH-DSA
  • FROST signature verification (complete single-signer or aggregated signatures)
  • Additional signature schemes: Schnorr (secp256k1), Schnorrkel (sr25519), P-256
On-Chain Utilities
  • Verifiable randomness (ecvrf)
  • JSON parsing (json)
  • Address compression (addresstable)
  • Bech32/EVM address bridging (bech32)
Cosmos Module Access
  • Bank, Staking, Distribution, Governance, Slashing
  • ERC-20 token surfaces
  • Custom validator rewards

Pre-deployed Contracts

c8ntinuum ships with widely-used ecosystem contracts at well-known addresses, removing the bootstrap tax: The wrapped CTM contract (symbol WCTM) uses c8ntinuum’s own address, not the canonical WETH9 address. On Ethereum and BNB Chain, that same address is the CTM token, a different contract. See Pre-deployed Contracts for the full list.

Dual Address System

Every account has two representations:

Dual Chain ID

  • Cosmos Chain ID (string): c8ntinuum_8-1 — for consensus, IBC, and governance
  • EVM Chain ID (integer): 8 — for EIP-155 transaction signing and wallet configuration

Development Tools

Standard Ethereum tools connect through c8ntinuum’s EVM JSON-RPC endpoint:

Next Steps

Network Information - Mainnet Beta

Chain ID, RPC endpoints, and explorers

Deploy a Contract

Step-by-step deployment guide

Modules & Precompiles

Access Cosmos modules and advanced cryptographic primitives from Solidity

Differences from Ethereum

What’s different under the hood

Infinity Interop

Quote, submit and follow cross-chain orders through the Infinity hub API and TypeScript SDK.