I have been testing Cardano ↔ EVM interoperability this week.
My observations:
Questions:
What is the current strategy direction for Cardano EVM compatibility?
Is Milkomeda still considered a long-term pillar, or are other solutions replacing it?
I am genuinely interested in understanding the roadmap.
Thanks!
Milkomeda has been shut down:
https://app.rosen.tech/ seems to work for me. Not really keen on testing it. Those fees are something else.
What exactly do you want to have? Those were two completely different projects.
Milkomeda had been a way to execute EVM contracts on a side chain of Cardano. So, actual EVM compatibility, but not a bridge to Ethereum.
Conversely, Rosen has little to do with EVM compatibility, but is rather a (rather expensive) bridge between different chains.
Thanks for raising these points. I wasn’t aware that Milkomeda has been shut down.
Yes, it appears that earlier interoperability attempts around Cardano had mixed results. Milkomeda didn’t really gain traction, and Rosen Bridge seems relatively expensive in terms of fees as you said (and possibly complexity).
That said, interoperability has been a core theme in Charles Hoskinson’s vision for years, and I believe rightly so.
What caught my attention in a recent RareEvo article is precisely the shift toward a different architecture: the potential combination of Cardano as a settlement layer, LayerZero for cross-chain messaging, and Midnight for programmable privacy.
If this stack actually works in practice, it could address some of the earlier limitations. Of course, the real test will be adoption and liquidity.
Curious to see how the ecosystem evolves from here.
I don’t give much on what the overrated YouTuber says.
And I don’t believe in Midnight at all.
