The Kusama (KSM) network is self claimed to be Polkadot’s (DOT) ‘wild cousin’. Built as a scalable network of uniquely developed blockchains using Substrate and a similar backbone as Polkadot. It provides an experimental development environment for project teams who later prepare for launch on the DOT network. Rapid progress and growth is the mantra of Kusama.
The Kusama network bridges other crypto blockchains, and unifies them into a single shared ecosystem.
The network founder, Gavid Wood, is also well known as the founder of Polkadot and previously being a co-founder and former Chief Technical Officer of Ethereum.