Introduction
As we gear up to Mainnet, we’ll be focusing on the progress and projects along the way from the Avail team. February saw us announce Avail Trinity - a three phase roadmap to unify ecosystems across the entirety of web3, a $27M seed round, and over 100M transactions on the Avail DA Goldberg Testnet, so let’s get to it!
Highlights
- Announced the Avail Trinity.
- Announced $27M seed round.
- Avail DA Goldberg Testnet crossed 100M transactions.
- Held our second Hot Takes event at ETH Denver.
- Announced partnerships with AltLayer x Darwinia, Ternoa, Zeeve, and PineX.
Technical Update
- We have been focused on making final tests and adjustments to all the core software, updating to the latest Polkadot SDK version and additional, mostly smaller changes. This is currently being tested.
- We are in the process of setting up multiple testing networks to test the final changes of all the components, as well as testing the deployments and infrastructure itself.
- The light client has undergone multiple changes. Stability improvements, RPC retry mechanisms were introduced, and multiple other changes. We are currently testing a new major version release candidate, 1.8.0.
- Shoutout to Subscan, we have a new explorer, check it out here.
Blog Posts
The Avail Vision: Accelerating the Unification of Web3
Avail Raises $27m to Accelerate the Unification of Web3
6 Ways Avail Scales Web3: Foundations for Mass-Adoption
Podcasts
0xResearch: Avail: Unifying and Scaling Modular Execution Layers
TEACHMEDEFI: Understanding the Hype around Data Availability
Clash of Nodes Update
After over 2.5k app chain and RollApp deployments on Clash of Nodes, we wrapped up our partner challenges with Dymension and Karnot this month.
We’re immensely grateful to all of the developers and teams who participated and contributed to the success of these challenges. Supporting thousands of deployments on Avail has been vital in testing Avail’s mainnet readiness.
And while the partner challenges chapter may be closing, the journey is far from over. To prepare for the Light Client Challenge, make sure you have an Avail address that has already received funds from the Avail faucet.
Events
Thank you everyone who started ETH Denver off strong with our Hot Takes Series: The Execution Race, which took place last week. We brought together different teams building and working with various blockchain execution environments to exchange hot takes and showcase what they're building. We’ll be sharing the full playlist soon, subscribe to our YouTube channel to be the first to know when it drops!
We were also across the main stage and side events over the week, including: Cheap, Safe, Nimble: DA and the Dream of Modularity Panel at ETH Denver, SevenX Ventures Research Day, Gelato BoothConf, Modular Day, FilDev Summit, StarkCity Denver, Restaking Summit, Open Information House, Beyond The Base Layer, TRGC, DeFi + Parallelized (E)VM Meetup, and L3 Summit.

Our Favorite Tweets
With today’s seed raise, Avail is accelerating the unification of web3 through the Avail Trinity. What’s it all about?
— Avail (@AvailProject) February 26, 2024
First, the problem:
We’re heading towards a rollup centric future, and with 10s to 100s of rollups appearing, some would say we’re already there. But how are… pic.twitter.com/Y652NKs5tg
We're all set up. For those joining us at Hot Takes today, we’re up on the 38th floor of The Grand Hyatt (conference side).
— Avail (@AvailProject) February 26, 2024
We got some nice views here and panels are coming up. See you soon! pic.twitter.com/UnZ6sFFIeq
New Episode Out! 🎙️
— TEACHMEDEFI (@TEACHMEDEFI) February 19, 2024
Understanding the Hype around Data Availability
DA is one of the hottest narratives driving #crypto.
But what is it? Why does it matter?@prabalbanerjee, co-founder of @AvailProject, chats to us about it! Hear about #Avail's journey from @0xPolygon to a… pic.twitter.com/t1kCMNRecl
🚀 Exciting news! Karnot x Avail hits a new high: 3100 forks & 2000+ app chains deployed!
— Karnot (@karnotxyz) February 13, 2024
We're overwhelmed by the support & participation, giving us great insight for future growth. Read more 👇 pic.twitter.com/KAGjIKltwU
Data Availability with Avail https://t.co/0S3zpm3wuM
— Starknet 🦇🔊 (@Starknet) February 7, 2024
We’re helping Ethereum scale, with @Ternoa_ 🚀
— Avail (@AvailProject) February 13, 2024
With this partnership, Ternoa will be using Avail DA to build their zkEVM L2, powered by decentralized TEE co-processors.
This brings an L2 more secure than ever with the power of multi-proofs and zk in one.
Read more -… pic.twitter.com/8lloBDCudY
Next Month
Catch us across the pond next week at ETHGlobal London, where founders Anurag and Prabal will be speaking at ETHGlobal London, Pragma London, H.E.R Con, Oxford Blockchain Conference. Anurag and Prabal will also be judging during the ETHGlobal London hackathon, where you could win up to $250,000+ USD in prizes. Check out Avail’s prize details here.
Stay tuned for Anurag’s feature in The Rollup’s Modular March, a month-long interactive education on the modular ecosystem.
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