Telegram-style ‘mini DApps’ are coming to LINE with Kaia’s mainnet launch
Layer-1 blockchain developed by two of Asia's leading social messaging apps has launched Kaia Mainnet, bringing Telegram-like apps with apps to popular messaging platform LINE.
The EVM-based chain launched on August 29 and will have “processing speeds of roughly one second” and “extremely low gas fees” to begin with, blockchain supporter Kaia DLT Foundation said in a blog post on the same day.
Alongside the launch, the project unveiled KaikaWave – a program for developers to create “mini DApps” (decentralized applications) to work with the messaging app LINE.
Source: Kaya
Kaia was founded in February after the merger of Fincia's blockchain with Japan's LINE and Clayton's blockchain with major South Korean social app maker Kakao.
The two apps are popular in Asia, where Kaya says they have a user base of over 250 million, and users are concentrated in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand and Indonesia.
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No details have been shared about what mini DApps will debut on LINE, but the messaging app will follow rival Telegram, which launched similar blockchain-based mini apps last year, and can use the Open Network (TON) chain.
Telegram Mini Apps offers everything from job listings, language tutorials, job search and dating apps to crypto apps for trading, staking, startup tokens and games to earn that have grown millions of users.
The TON blockchain was recently hit by an outage and was knocked offline for two extended periods in the past 36 hours. The first lasted for over seven hours between August 27 and 28 and the second lasted for six hours until August 29.
Ton's organizers said the airdrop of the dog-themed memecoin Dogs (DOGS) caused “network overload” by knocking users offline as they throttled the network to access the downloaded piece.
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