What is Moonriver (movr)?

(MOVR) The Moonbeam Foundation created Moonriver to be an Ethereum-compatible blockchain environment on the Kusama (KSM) network. Moonriver is intended to operate on Kusama as a parachain, helping crypto projects expand their reach to new users and markets with a multi-chain approach.

Is Moonriver a Kusama network?

In June 2021, Moonriver first launched as a parachain on the Kusama network. Moonriver is a sister network of Moonbeam, and provides an environment to test new code under real economic conditions. Developers now have access to start experimenting and building on an incentivized canary network connected to Kusama.

What is Moonriver & Polkadot?

Moonriver is a companion network to Moonbeam and provides a permanently incentivized canary network. New code ships to Moonriver first, where it can be tested and verified under real economic conditions. Once proven, the same code ships to Moonbeam on Polkadot. Now Live on Kusama! See Moonriver's Launch Sequence

What is a Moonriver crowdloan?

Contributors earned MOVR tokens for their support, which they can now use to engage with the network, and use built in functionality. From the beginning, the Moonriver crowdloan was designed to maximize rewards and allow early participation to the community that helped the network launch.