The emergence of multiple blockchain networks like Ethereum, Solana, and Polkadot has led to an increasingly multi-chain world. However, a major challenge is that these different blockchains cannot easily communicate with each other out-of-the-box. This severely limits what decentralized applications (dApps) can achieve, since they can only leverage the capabilities of one chain at a time. That’s where blockchain interoperability protocols like the Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) come in. Developed by the blockchain middleware company Chainlink, CCIP provides a standardized way for smart contracts on different blockchains to seamlessly communicate.…
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