EVM App Development with Reown: Everything to know
The Ethereum ecosystem is known for pioneering decentralized apps. While today, there are countless other chains and ecosystems offering app capabilities, Ethereum was the first to introduce a programmable blockchain.
Since then, the Ethereum ecosystem has evolved and expanded into a vast landscape of Layer 2s, sidechains, and specialized networks—all using the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). This has provided ample opportunity for developers to reach more users—all within a single, flourishing ecosystem.
That’s why Reown offers a comprehensive toolkit for EVM app development, designed to help developers make use of this multi-chain ecosystem, without sacrificing performance, and always prioritizing platform integrity.
EVM app development: Why build on EVM?
If you’re wondering which ecosystem to start building on, here are the top reasons why you should consider building for the EVM.
Reach the Largest User Base
The EVM ecosystem boasts the largest network of active apps and users in Web3. By building on EVM, you aren't just launching a product; you are plugging into an established economy. Whether you are deploying on Ethereum Mainnet or a high-throughput Layer 2, you gain immediate access to a massive pool of liquidity and a community of users who already have the wallets and knowledge necessary to interact with your app.
Scalable and User-Friendly Infrastructure
Early blockchain development was often hindered by high costs and slow speeds. However, the modern EVM landscape is built for scale. With L2 compatibility, developers can build apps that offer the security of Ethereum with the speed and low transaction costs required for a mainstream user experience. This allows for the creation of high-performance apps—from high-frequency trading platforms to immersive games—that don't compromise on decentralization.
Unrivaled Interoperability
One of the greatest strengths of the EVM is its "Lego-like" composability. Because so many popular apps and networks share the same underlying architecture, your dApp can easily collaborate and integrate with existing protocols. This interoperability ensures that your app can communicate with other EVM-compatible networks, allowing for seamless cross-chain interactions and a more unified experience for your users.
Proven Longevity and Security
In an industry that moves fast, stability matters. Ethereum is the most battle-tested smart contract platform in existence, standing as the most popular and secure chain after Bitcoin. When you build on EVM, you are building on a foundation that has been audited, stressed-pressed, and refined over years of real-world use. This longevity gives developers and investors the confidence that their applications are built on a permanent, reliable infrastructure.
Why use Reown for EVM app development?
Compatibility & interoperability
Building custom solutions for compatibility/interoperability can be time-consuming/expensive. Using Reown SDK, you can build EVM compatible apps from the jump, unlocking interoperability with over X number of EVM chains.
Seamless onboarding
With Reown’s EVM app development tools, you can simplify login experiences, opening up seamless logins with 500+ non-custodial wallets, including industry favorites like Rabby and Metamask. You can also enable social and email login to make onboarding experiences intuitive for non-crypto natives.
Improved User Experience
With Reown, you can also offer a seamless user experience, through features like gas sponsorship and funding/depositing via exchanges, and access to quick and performant swap and onramp tools. This means that enabling extra features doesn’t require lengthy integrations and DIY solutions. Instead, you just integrate the Reown Appkit SDK and enable the features your users want, as and when you’re ready.
Security
With Reown, security is not just a feature but a fundamental aspect of Reown’s architecture. The infrastructure has undergone multiple rounds of third-party security reviews, audits, penetration testing, and threat modeling to ensure the highest standards of protection. Security is viewed as a continuously evolving discipline, with regular system audits to identify and address potential vulnerabilities.
Learn more about Reown's approach to security here.
Compliance
If you’re building an EVM app, you also need to consider compliance. With Reown, you can rest assured that friction is eliminated. With analytics to see exactly where your users are interacting from, you can build the necessary compliance features with data confidence.
Plus, with Travel Rule compliance built in, you can ensure compliance from day one. To learn more about how the travel rule affects crypto apps and how Reown enables it for your project by default, check out the full blog here.
Analytics
Reown Analytics lets you learn more about user behavior and app performance to make data driven decisions. While many EVM apps either trust external analytics platforms or aim to build DIY solutions, when you build with Reown you get all of the app performance and user data you need to make important iterations for your app’s success.
Reown analytics means you can access data such as the total number of addresses, signatures, swaps, onramps, volume, and even more advanced data such as country distribution, wallet distribution, chains distribution and more.
This is particularly useful for EVM apps, since many operate on multiple EVM chains and are compatible with hundreds of EVM compatible wallets.
To learn more about Reown Analytics check out this blog.
What can you build with Reown’s EVM app development toolkit?
EVM Defi apps
Some of most popular types of apps in the EVM ecosystem are DeFi apps; such as Decentralized Exchanges, Yield Trading platforms, synthetics protocols and borrowing and lending platforms.
For example, take Morpho, a lending network that leveraged Reown to offer a platform compatible with mobile and desktop from day one, support all EVM networks such as Ethereum, Base, Unichain, Katana, and more, allow users to login with their choice of EVM wallets, and directly fund and deposit to centralized exchange wallets such as Binance or Coinbase—without leaving the flow or sharing credentials.
Learn more about how Morpho uses Reown for DeFi in the Case study here
EVM Decentralized Social Apps
The EVM ecosystem is also perfect for building social media apps, with industry leading examples including Zora, Mirror.xyz and Farcaster.
If you want to build similar web3 social media platform, Reown also offers a performant toolkit built specifically for that.
Orb, a web3 social media platform built on Lens protocol, used Reown to build a mobile-native app by using the Reown Appkit SDK in Flutter. Offering these tools in multiple frameworks means that teams can focus on building features without lengthy and complicated processes to allow integration.
Learn more about Reown for social apps.
EVM compatible Blockchain gaming
The EVM ecosystem is also home to countless blockchain games, from web3 trading card games, to blockchain-enabled RPGs, metaverses and more.
If you want to get involved with the growing EVM blockchain game ecosystem, Reown offers a comprehensive toolkit for building something both impressive and performant; with support for multiple frameworks, including Unity, iOS, Kotlin and React. Not only that, but Reown also offers features to deliver a seamless gaming UX, such as gas sponsorship, intuitive logins and simple monetization implementations.
For example, ZKNoid, a gaming platform powered by zero-knowledge proof tech, used Reown to scale their onboarding process, introducing multiple login methods seamlessly. With Reown’s simple integration, reaching more users becomes tangible without compromising immersion.
Learn more about Reown for gaming here.
EVM compatible Marketplaces
Another core part of the EVM ecosystem is marketplaces, including popular NFT marketplaces like OpenSea and Blur.
Reown can help you build performant and powerful EVM enabled marketplaces, offering tools to make purchases, swaps and onramps seamless. Not only that, but features like gas sponsorship and funding and depositing directly from centralized exchange wallets can eliminate friction, allowing users to interact with your marketplace intuitively.
Learn more about Reown for marketplaces here.
How does Reown’s EVM toolkit work?
The Reown Appkit SDK is designed specifically to support multiple chains; including all EVM-compatible chains. That means your users can connect almost any EVM wallet and interact with your EVM app immediately. As long as the EVM chain you are trying to configure is included in Viem’s package, Reown AppKit SDK will support it.
How to build EVM compatible blockchain apps with Reown
Building a scalable performant EVM app with Reown is easy! Simply choose your framework—either React, Next.js, Vue, Javascript, React Native, Flutter, Android, iOS or Unity—and get started!
For more details, check out our guide to building EVM apps in the Reown Docs.
Reown for EVM apps: Unlocking Seamless Compatibility
With Reown, building any EVM app becomes possible, whether it’s a DeFi platform, social app, marketplace, blockchain game, or something completely new. With a comprehensive toolkit, including seamless onboarding, payment, compliance and data solutions, Reown offers all of the features you need to build a successful and competitive EVM app.
Ready to build an EVM app and scale to the millions?
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