The Cardano Foundation announced the Integration of Cross-Chain Communication Protocol (IBC) for enabling reliable transaction and data exchange across different blockchain networks to enhance connectivity and join the cross-chain ecosystem. By bringing IBC functionality to Cardano, projects seeking to build a bridge between the Cardano network and Cosmos SDK-based sidechains may utilize this solution. In addition to joining the cross-chain ecosystem, the implementation of IBC for Cardano adds another option for connecting Ethernet Virtual Machine (EVM)-based sidechains to Cardano. This will allow developers to seamlessly deploy EVM-based decentralized applications (DApps) on the Cardano sidechain.