Introduction
It’s here! This past month we launched Avail DA on Mainnet, the AVAIL Token and the Avail Foundation! Thank you to everyone who has been along with us for the ride, testing on Goldberg and Turing, participating in Clash of Nodes, and attending our Hot Take events across the globe. We’re working closely with our partners who are building with Avail DA, and now we’re doubling down development efforts for Avail Nexus. Let’s get to it!
Highlights
- Launched Avail DA Mainnet and AVAIL Token.
- Announced the Avail Foundation.
- Hosted Unification Week at EthCC with Avail’s Unification Cup and HOT TAKE Series: Unification Day.
- Announced partnerships with Crestal, Router Protocol, Lava Network, Deq.fi, Skate Chain, Radius, Helix Labs, Radium, Morph, Uprising, BVMNetwork, Cartesi, Fiamma, and IronChain Bank.
Technical Update
- Avail DA Mainnet is up and running! Thanks for all the support and help with testing on Goldberg and Turing testnets!
- New version of the Avail DA node, running on 250+ node instances on the Mainnet atm.
- New version of the Avail DA light client with mainnet support.
- All Avail DA mainnet audits concluded and their reports published.
- Launched an Immenufi bug bounty program for Avail DA mainnet.
Network Update
- We have 51 Validators in the active set and 0 downtime across all active operators since launch!
- The Avail Bridge is live.
- Staking pools are live and supported across all of our wallet partners.
Blogs
- Avail DA Mainnet Is Live!
- The AVAIL Token is Now Live on Mainnet
- Community Rollout for Decentralized Mainnet Validators
- Announcing the Avail Foundation
- AVAIL Token: Get Started
Videos
- Avail Hot Takes: Live! Enhancing the Ethereum Ecosystem via Modularity
- Avail Hot Takes: Live! Providing Better Infra in Web3
Podcasts
- CryptoNews Podcast: Anurag Arjun, Co-founder of Avail, on Scaling Ethereum, The Future of L2s, Roll-ups, and Why Crypto Needs a Unification Layer
- DeFi Dad: Avail: The Next Evolution of Modular Blockchains
- Never Die: A Crypto Podcast: Avai: The Next Crypto Meta? With Founder Anurag Arjun
Events
Our team was out at EthCC Brussels this past month, speaking on EthCC’s main stage, Modular Summit, AggDay, Integration Day, Modular Security with Cartesi, RollCon, Staking Day, among many other side events. We also co-hosted Naruto’s Hidden Village of ModularHouse.
We kicked the week off with our Unification Cup, a football tournament with 60 players from all across the modular ecosystem. A big thanks to our sponsors, Movement Labs and Dabl Club for supporting us! Check out the photos from the day here.
We hosted Avail's HOT TAKE Series: Unification Day, asking can web3 unify and not divide? We had fireside chats and panels discussing synchronous composability via shared sequencing, scaling decentralized social networks, modular gaming, PoS slashing, and if we need L3s. Our speakers included Stani Kulechov from Lens, David Schwartz from Polygon Labs, Ed Felten from Offchain Labs, Justin Drake from the Ethereum Foundation, and many more. Check out all the photos from the day and the full sessions on our Youtube channel.
Avail devs QEDK, Abheek, and DevRel Robin were on hand during the ETHGlobal Brussels hackathon. Tok2Tok (Arbitrum Orbit), rekt.trade (Tooling), and L3S (Arbitrum Orbit) took home the winning prizes in the Avail track.
Hot Tweets
Avail DA Mainnet & the AVAIL token are now live!
— Avail (@AvailProject) July 23, 2024
Today marks the launch of Avail DA, the first modular data availability layer using validity proofs + data availability sampling. Now, build blockchains that truly scale with demand.
The AVAIL token powers the network—pay fees,… pic.twitter.com/t3SNvRV8Sl
— Avail (@AvailProject) July 15, 2024
This was an amazing implementation of @0xStackr’s ephemeral micro-rollup, powered by Avail DA.
— Avail (@AvailProject) July 22, 2024
Read the case study to find out how they created a micro-rollup for our unification cup, a football tournament we hosted during the EthCC week. https://t.co/peipQcAqUU
Want to be ready to stake your AVAIL when the token is live? It’s easy.
— Avail (@AvailProject) July 18, 2024
1. Visit https://t.co/BqMIcCDFK4 and connect your Avail wallet.
2. Choose your staking method: direct nomination or use a nomination pool.
3. Select how you’d like to collect your rewards.
4. Start earning. pic.twitter.com/Xb8YmQZWuM
Next Month
We’re thrilled to be meeting the community across Asia in August. Meet us at one of the following locations: Hong Kong, Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City, Seoul, and Istanbul. RSVP here.
We’ll also be participating in ETHTokyo’s hackathon with an Avail track. Come see DevRel Robin Roy from August 23 - 26.
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