Ostia has been running on DevNet since October 22 and has committed more than 53,600 blocks so far.
Early-Stage Limits
The deployment is a test release. Rome’s documentation states that Ostia is unaudited, its test coin has no value and DevNet may be reset. It also says Rome runs the builder, the prover and the single participant that confirms blocks, and that no other participant confirms Ostia DevNet blocks today. The project’s repository advises against using Ostia for anything of value.
The work targets a network built for regulated finance. A Talos report on Canton describes it as a blockchain ecosystem offering privacy, interoperability and fine-grained controls. The same report says Canton was developed by Digital Asset and that its Global Synchronizer uses Canton Coin as its utility token.
For Rome Protocol, Ostia extends beyond its existing Solana-based work. Solana Compass describes Rome as a project that lets applications written for Ethereum run on Solana, and lists Ostia among its newer rollup projects, an EVM chain ordered by Canton and proven with ZisK.
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