The developer experience is central to Movement’s strategy, offering faster development cycles, cost-effective auditing and a more intuitive programming model than Solidity. The project is focused on community-driven adoption and aims to foster Move-based dApps on Ethereum.

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So having a language that was built with this in mind, being significantly more modern… it’s more intuitive to build what you want to build, it’s easier to write your code, cheaper to audit your code, significantly safer, it just accelerates the go-to-market for any application

The technology was subsequently used to create layer-1 networks Sui and Aptos, as well as Movement Labs extending the programming language to develop an Ethereum layer 2

Solidity was the first smart contract language and proved what could be done, it’s out of date

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