Lighter officially announces the launch of the EVM development network.

BlockBeats news, October 16: Lighter has announced that its EVM devnet is officially live. The devnet is an EVM-equivalent rollup, built by Lighter in collaboration with Axiom and powered by OpenVM. It runs in sync with Lighter Core, and the two are designed to settle jointly to Ethereum via a single ZK proof.

Developers can deploy using Foundry, Hardhat, Viem, and Ethers, and can read accounts, balances, positions, orders, and market data from Lighter Core; they can also place, modify, and cancel orders via smart contracts, and transfer assets between the devnet L1, Lighter Core, and Lighter EVM.

Lighter stated that teams can apply for access via email at evm@lighter.xyz. It is currently onboarding developers in batches to ensure rapid response to issues, and will expand access to all developers in the coming weeks.