As the blockchain ecosystem continues to evolve, modular blockchains are emerging as a promising frontier, offering greater flexibility, scalability, and interoperability compared to their monolithic predecessors.
For investors and enthusiasts looking to get in early, several modular blockchain tokens are still trading under $1, making them accessible entry points into this growing sector.
Note: This list is sorted in no particular order. All data and information are from CoinMarketCap.
Immutable positions itself as the first layer-two scaling solution for NFTs on Ethereum. According to Immutable, its blockchain does away with Ethereum’s limitations like low scalability, a poor user experience, illiquidity, and a slow developer experience.
Instead, users benefit from instant trading and massive scalability while enjoying zero gas fees for minting and trading NFTs without compromising user or asset security.
Exchanges: Bybit: IMX/USDT, OKX: IMX/USDT
Taiko (TAIKO) is a fully open source, permissionless, Ethereum-equivalent ZK-Rollup designed to scale Ethereum natively. Using Taiko feels the same as using Ethereum.
There are no centralized actors that operate the network; all operations, including running a Taiko node, proposer, and prover, are permissionlessly run by the community. The Taiko network is home to more than 100 different DeFi, gaming, social, infra, tooling, and other protocols.
Exchanges: Gate: TAIKO/USDT, MEXC: TAIKO/USDT
Arbitrum is an Ethereum layer-two (L2) scaling solution. It uses optimistic rollups to achieve its goal of improving speed, scalability and cost-efficiency on Ethereum.
Arbitrum benefits from the security and compatibility of Ethereum. Another benefit is the higher throughput and lower fees compared to Ethereum. That is made possible thanks to moving most of the computation and storage load off-chain.
Exchanges: Bitget: ARB/USDT, MEXC: ARB/USDT
Cellframe Network is a scalable, open-source, next-generation platform for building and bridging blockchains and services secured by post-quantum encryption.
Cellframe offers an environment for enterprises and developers to build a vast array of products ranging from simple low-level t-dApps to whole other blockchains on top of Cellframe Network. Cellframe can provide extremely high transaction throughput based on an original sharding implementation.
Exchanges: BVOT: CELL/USDT, BitMart: CELL/USDT
Lumia is the first next-generation blockchain to provide a comprehensive solution across the entire life cycle of real world assets (RWAs), from asset tokenization, to liquidity aggregation, and connectivity to millions of DeFi and Web3 traders. Lumia also has a very strong community backing.
Exchanges: Gate: LUMIA/USDT, KuCoin: LUMIA/USDT
Disclosure: This is not trading or investment advice. Always do your research before buying any cryptocurrency or investing in any services.
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