Telegram-Style Apps Launch on LINE’s Kaia Mainnet

With Kaia’s mainnet launch, LINE will add ‘mini DApps,‘ following the path of rival Telegram, which introduced a similar feature last year.

With the introduction of its mainnet, Kaia, a layer-1 blockchain created by two of the most famous social messaging apps in Asia, has enabled Telegram-like apps-with-apps on the well-known messaging service LINE.

In addition to having “processing speeds of approximately one second” and “meager gas fees,” the EVM-based chain launched on August 29. The blockchain’s supporting organization, Kaia DLT Foundation, stated this in a blog post.

In addition, the project introduced Kaika Wave, a tool that allows developers to make “mini DApps,” or decentralized applications, that integrate with the LINE messaging service.

Kaia was established in February after combining the Finschia blockchain from Japan’s LINE and the Klaytn blockchain from significant South Korean social app developer Kakao.

According to Kaia, the two apps are well-liked in Asia, with a combined user base of over 250 million, most of whom are from South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, and Indonesia.

Although specifics about the micro DApps appearing on LINE were not disclosed, it is a move in the same direction as Telegram, LINE’s competitor messaging app, which introduced micro Apps with a blockchain last year that can utilize The Open Network (TON) chain.

To-do lists, language tutoring, job search tools, dating apps, and cryptocurrency applications for trading, staking, and token launches are just a few features available in Telegram’s Mini Apps, including various play-to-earn games with millions of users.

In the last 36 hours, two instances of the TON blockchain became unavailable for extended periods due to outages. The first ran from August 27 to August 28 for more than seven hours, while the second ran from August 29 for six hours.

According to TON’s developers, the airdrop of Dogs (DOGS), a memecoin with a dog motif, knocked the network offline due to “network overload,” caused by users straining the network to receive a piece of the drop.