Messenger app maker Kik is quitting ethereum for good as it continues to develop its cryptocurrency, dubbed kin.
Launched on ethereum early in the ICO boom, Kik has now announced that it will close kin's atomic swap with ethereum.
Without specifying a date, the Kin Ecosystem Foundation said Wednesday that it would soon release a tool for kin holdings off of ethereum.
By November, ethereum scaling issues resulted in talk that kin could find its way onto an alternative blockchain - something that Kik founder and CEO Ted Livingston later confirmed that December.
By March, Kik had developed a two-chain strategy slated for stellar, with ethereum for security and stellar for speed; the plan was that users could switch back and forth.
In May, Kik determined that even stellar's extremely low transaction fees were too much at scale, so it decided to fork stellar so it could eliminate transaction costs entirely.
Kik isn't the first company to start building on ethereum only shift away to alternative platforms.
Ethereum has served as an incubation hub of sorts for a number of tokens that later broke away.
A spokesperson for the Kin Foundation explained that it has been making arrangements with exchanges, ensuring that as users move their tokens onto exchanges, they will make a one-way move onto the kin blockchain - burning the original ERC-20 token in the process.
The spokesperson said that existing users can sit on their tokens on ethereum as long as they like.
Kik Selects Stellar Over Ethereum for Token Launch
Publicado en Nov 14, 2018
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