Introduction
This past month we've been working closely with our partners building on Avail DA, as well as hosting community meetups across Asia, and participating at ETHTokyo’s hackathon. Let’s get to it!
Highlights
- Released a new release version for nodes on the Turing testnet and on Mainnet
- Tutorials released on Avail Bridge and Staking
- Partner spotlights on Klever Wallet, ZK Cross, Uprising, and Playnation
- Announced partnership with Henry, Crestal, Router, LayerEdge, Carv Protocol, and Ola.
Technical Update
- We have released a new release version for nodes on the Turing testnet and on Mainnet. Please make sure to upgrade.
- We added new examples and interfaces to Avail Rust.
- The Avail Light Client is currently undergoing significant improvements and changes. Some of them improve the performance of the Kademlia DHT.
Network Update
- The active set of 51 validators continues to maintain zero downtime, ensuring uninterrupted network performance since launch.
- V2.2.5.0 Mainnet release improves telemetry and RPC rate limiting.
- The Avail Improvement Proposal (AIP) 1 successfully passed, improving nomination pool limits.
- AIP 2 is proposed to gradually increase the validator count by 10%, aimed at promoting network decentralization.
Blogs
Videos
- Avail Hot Takes: Live! Accelerating the Consumer Crypto Apps with Pivotal and Henry Social
- Avail Hot Takes: Live! Diving into Hot Lava
- Avail Hot Takes: Live! Diving Deeper into Chain Abstraction with Router
Podcasts and X Spaces
- Decypher Podcast: Anurag Arjun - Avail
- DevNTell: Avail with Prabal Banerjee
- The Rollup: Data in the Modular Stack with Kyle Rojas
- Particle Network: Chain Abstraction is Inevitable with Kyle Rojas
- Defiant News: Cartesi and Avail with Chandler
- Polygon Agg Layer and Friends with Chandler
- Lava Network: Avail, DA, Nexus and Fusion with Naruto
Events
We were delighted to meet over 290 community members across Asia this past month with ecosystem meetups in Hong Kong, Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City, Seoul, and Istanbul. A huge thank you to everyone in the community who made it out to our meetups! Your energy, support, and enthusiasm are what make these events so special. Stay tuned on X for future meetups!
Last week, Avail DevRel Robin Roy was on hand at ETHTokyo to support devs building on the Avail track.
Hot Tweets
How about a rollup that tracks football matches? ⚽️
— Avail (@AvailProject) August 8, 2024
The Unification Cup, Avail’s football tournament at EthCC this year, used a rollup built using Avail DA, @0xStackr's SDK, and Ethereum to track and log matches and results.
Let’s take a look at how it works.
The app was… pic.twitter.com/ZZGgkQhpxA
✨ 3 key lessons that led us to create Avail as the unification layer of web3 ✨
— Avail (@AvailProject) August 15, 2024
1. Monolithic blockchains face scalability issues as usage grows. At its peak, Ethereum saw transaction fees spike to $50-$200. To address this, transaction processing was moved to rollups.
(contd.) pic.twitter.com/DrQQqFCCtx
nobody will remember:
— Avail (@AvailProject) August 20, 2024
- your salary
- how “busy you were”
- how many hours you worked
people will remember:
- if you used Avail DA for your rollup
- how much cost you saved by using Avail DA
- how you scaled with Avail DA
Unification powers the web3 future.
— Avail (@AvailProject) August 17, 2024
Avail DA, Nexus, and Fusion drives unification. pic.twitter.com/t2YN0TTHoL
Next Month
Avail Co-founder Prabal Banerjee and DevRel Naruto will be around at Token 2049 Singapore, at a number of events including: L3 & ZK Night Token2049, Multichain Day, Epic Web3 L2Con, Liquidity Day , Automata Network TEE Unconference, Altlayer Rollup Day. as well as leading an Avail track at ETHGlobal Singapore’s hackathon.
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