Berachain is a high-performance, EVM-identical Layer 1 (L1) blockchain that employs Proof-of-Liquidity (PoL) as its consensus mechanism built on BeaconKit, а modular EVM-focused consensus client framework. It combines technical innovation with a unique community culture, creating a standout presence in the Layer-1 landscape.
Born from the Bong Bears NFT collection, the project maintains a distinct identity in the crypto space. Core team members adopt pseudonyms inspired by famous bears while development is driven by a community-first approach. This unique combination of strong meme culture and technical innovation has fostered a rapidly growing ecosystem of builders and users.
The new Tenderly integration lets Berachain builders leverage development and production infrastructure with built-in, advanced exploration, debugging, and real-time monitoring tools to enhance the dapp lifecycle. Now is the ideal time to prepare for the upcoming Berachain mainnet launch with Tenderly’s full-stack infrastructure.
What you need to know about Berachain
Berachain’s blockchain architecture tackles fundamental challenges in the DeFi ecosystem with its PoL mechanism. The platform’s vision is to cultivate an ecosystem where experimentation is rewarded with native liquidity, driven by users eager for innovation. Incentives across all network participants, such as users, validators, and protocols, are strategically aligned to enhance network security and encourage ecosystem growth.
Thanks to its full EVM compatibility, you can use the existing Ethereum infrastructure and tooling while tapping into Berachain's distinct capabilities. This way, you can help shape its liquidity ecosystem and fuel a "liquidity flywheel" through diverse dapp applications.
Why should you develop on Berachain?
Berachain’s meme culture is accompanied by some new and unique core features appealing to a growing community:
- EVM-identical: Although a standalone Layer-1 blockchain, Berachain’s execution layer is identical to the EVM runtime environment, making it an EVM-identical blockchain. It uses the existing unmodified execution clients such as Geth, Erigon, and Nethermind to handle smart contract execution, providing out-of-the-box support for existing infrastructure and tooling. This approach also enables Berachain to adopt all Ethereum improvements and upgrades as soon as they’re available.
- BeaconKit Framework: The Berachain team has developed its own BeaconKit Framework, an innovative modular framework for developing EVM consensus clients. It uses both EVM and Cosmos SDK, providing developers with additional flexibility. Built using Cosms SDK, BeaconKit integrates the benefits of the CometBFT consensus, such as increased composability, scalability, and single-slot finality.
- Proof-of-Liquidity (PoL): Berachain’s key innovation lies in its consensus mechanism that promotes and rewards liquidity, contributing to higher chain security and user growth. PoL builds on the PoS concept by separating gas and governance tokens and aligning the interests of validators with those of protocols and end-users.
The Berachain token model
This Berachain economic model and token structure ensure that protocols and dapps building on Berachain have ample liquidity from the start, aligning incentives across the community. Berachain’s collaborative and rapidly expanding community further supports its unique ecosystem, creating a dynamic environment for innovation and experimentation.
Berachain uses a tri-token model that aligns the community incentives:
- BERA: Token used for gas fees
- BGT: Governance token for participating in consensus, which can only be earned by providing liquidity in PoL-eligible assets
- HONEY: Stablecoin collateralized by USDC, minted or earned through validator fees
Berachain’s distinct and innovative economic model seeks to reward all the participants in its ecosystem through incentive-bassed network collaboration.
Bear necessities: getting started with Tenderly
The Berachain team has been focused on cultivating a unique ecosystem and economy, attracting DeFi projects and creating a space where protocols and dapps can take full advantage of Berachain’s PoL benefits. With Tenderly’s full-stack infrastructure, you can now seamlessly build, test, and scale your new dapps all while exploring Berachain’s unique PoL mechanism and preparing for the upcoming mainnet launch.
Use Tenderly’s industry-recognized development and production infrastructure, including advanced exploration, debugging, and real-time monitoring tools to accelerate development, streamline workflows, and optimize dapp performance.
Here’s how Tenderly enables you to build and scale with ease:
Run your own Berachain Node RPC
Tenderly provides robust RPC support for Berachain, enabling you to run even multiple dedicated Berachain Node RPCs, designed to handle the high-throughput demands of decentralized applications. With custom SLAs, soft rate limits, and multiregional support, Node RPC ensures continuous service and scalability as your new Berachain dapp usage grows.
Additionally, Tenderly’s RPC goes beyond basic node infrastructure by offering built-in simulation infrastructure, 100% accurate gas estimates, and real-time monitoring tools. This way, it gives you instant access to advanced production and development capabilities.
Build in zero-setup development environments
Tenderly Virtual TestNets are next-generation development infrastructure designed to replace public testnets. They enable you to fork the Berachain network and experiment in production-based collaborative environments. Synced with the latest state of Berachain, Virtual TestNets also allow you to build and test your Berachain dapps on real-time on-chain data, providing realistic conditions.
You can simulate complex scenarios, test contract interactions, and debug errors, all within Tenderly’s intuitive interface. Virtual TestNets fit into your existing team workflows, ensuring efficient team collaboration on a shared infrastructure. Plus, they also come with built-in public and private explorers, an unlimited faucet for any ERC-20 or native token, and debugging tools.
Explore, debug, and move on-chain fast with advanced tools
Tenderly’s built-in exploration and debugging tools provide real-time transaction monitoring, granular debugging, and human-readable insights into smart contract execution. With such a powerful toolkit, you get complete visibility into on-chain data relevant to your project on Berachain.
Use Tenderly’s industry-leading Debugger to find and troubleshoot bugs at the exact line of code. Then, replay failed transactions, identify vulnerabilities, and optimize contracts with Transaction Simulator before deploying on Berachain’s public mainnet. You can also minimize gas costs by optimizing your contracts for efficiency and reducing any unnecessary costs using Gas Profiler.
Berachain’s growing ecosystem
The Berachain ecosystem is buzzing with innovation, largely driven by Berachain’s novel PoL mechanism and tri-token model, which makes it a natural fit for DeFi protocols and beyond. While still in its testnet phase, Berachain is already attracting projects in DeFi, GameFi, BetFi, and SocialFi exploring new incentive structures and mechanisms via PoL.
Early standout dapps include:
- BEX: A native decentralized exchange for trading, liquidity provision, and earning BGT rewards.
- BEND: A lending platform that allows users to borrow HONEY by lending crypto assets.
- BERP: A perpetual trading platform using HONEY as the trading base asset.
Join the Bear Cave
As Berachain approaches its mainnet launch, its ecosystem is gaining momentum. The active testnet is alive with DeFi primitives and an expanding developer community eager to push the boundaries of what's possible in DeFi, GameFi, and more. Through partnerships with leading infrastructure providers such as Tenderly, Berachain is laying a solid foundation for builders.
Whether you're developing a DeFi protocol, exploring new GameFi experiences, or experimenting with PoL mechanics, Tenderly’s full-stack infrastructure for the entire dapp lifecycle is here to support you throughout your product lifecycle.
Start building with Tenderly and create the next wave of innovative, liquidity-powered dapps on Berachain.
