Designed for any application

VIA carries any data between smart contracts, so the list of uses stays open. These examples show where teams often start.

Liquidity transfers

Move liquidity between chains for trading, lending, and treasury needs. You choose how many confirmations each transfer waits for, from fast to cautious.

Oracles and data feeds

Bring data from outside the blockchain into your contracts. You run the data source, and VIA delivers the data to any connected chain. Examples include prices, sports results, flight status, and sensor readings.

AI agents

Give AI agents a way to act across chains. An agent can send instructions from one chain to contracts on others. It can also feed them data from outside the blockchain.

Stablecoins and tokens

Launch one token on many chains and keep one total supply. Choose burn and mint, lock and mint, or lock and release.

Chains can also launch USDC with Circle's Bridged USDC Standard, and VIA Labs helps with the launch.

USDM, the fiat-backed stablecoin from Moneta, moves between Cardano and Midnight using VIA.

DeFi

Build lending, liquidity, and trading apps that work across chains. A contract on one chain can send its state to a contract on another chain, which acts on it.

Enterprise systems

Send events from your existing systems into smart contracts, plain or encrypted. Your contracts act on what your backend reports.

Real-world assets

Carry ownership records and attestations for tokenized assets between chains. The asset can stay on one chain while apps on other chains read its records.

Identity and credentials

Prove a credential or reputation on one chain, and use it in an app on another. Users don't need to prove it again on each chain.

Governance

Collect votes from token holders on many chains, and act on the result on one chain. Holders vote from the chain where they keep their tokens.

Gaming

Move items, progress, and achievements between chains. Players keep what they earn when a game runs on more than one chain.

NFTs

Move NFTs between chains, or update their metadata on every chain. One collection can live on several chains and stay in sync.

Privacy with Midnight

Midnight is a blockchain built for data protection. VIA connects Midnight to Cardano, so apps can move tokens and data between the two.

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