Road to Mainnet: November 2023
Welcome to November's edition of the Avail team's monthly series providing updates on all things Avail. Read on to find technical highlights from this past month and upcoming milestones and events.
Introduction
As we gear up to Mainnet, we’ll be focusing on the progress and projects along the way from the Avail team. November has been a milestone month for us, launching our Clash of Nodes Incentivized Testnet, hosting our very first event, and we got to share a few of the other projects we’ve been working on, so let’s get to it!
Highlights
- Launched our Grants Program.
- Announced our bidirectional bridge with Succinct.
- Announced our partnership with Movement Labs.
- Clash of Nodes incentivized testnet has kicked off with 600,000+ transactions and counting.
Technical Update
- We launched the Clash of Nodes Incentivized Testnet in early November and have seen tremendous involvement from our community. Thanks for that!
- With the incentivized testnet running, it allows us to test the network's resiliency and the result has been very positive so far, getting us ready for Mainnet.
- We are testing different set-ups of the network for our light client network. We are now constantly testing with around 1K light clients and testing different performance profiles.
- We are working on getting the final shape of the network architecture in place, based on the performance we are seeing on the incentivized testnet.
- We are progressing with an external audit, which will be concluded in December.
Network Update
- Onboarded 270 validators on the Goldberg Testnet already. Will continue to onboard more validators until we reach 300.
- We launched a leaderboard to track challenges and activities of participant performance.
- The Balance Transfers challenge has launched successfully to the community
- We will be soon rolling out other challenges for the testnet.
Blog Posts
- Avail Ecosystem Series: Polygon zkEVM Validium
- 5 Takeaways From the L2 Hot Take Panel
- 5 Hot Takes from RaaS Providers
- 5 Key Insights from Rollup Builders at Devconnect
- Get Rewarded for Building Core Rollup Infra
Clash of Nodes Update
Avail's Clash of Nodes incentivized testnet is off to an awesome start! On November 7th, we officially launched Clash of Nodes. We initiated the rollout to validators, marking a significant milestone. The incentivized testnet now has rapidly expanded with 270 validators, 34,000 accounts, and a remarkable 603,000 transactions. In the past week alone, we recorded 143,000 transactions and witnessed a day where 1GB of data was submitted to the chain, showcasing the network's robustness. See it all on the leaderboard.
⚔️ Clash of Nodes update (Dec 5, '23)
— Avail (@AvailProject) December 6, 2023
On Nov 7th, we officially launched “Clash of Nodes”. The incentivized testnet now has:
- 270 validators
- 37k accounts
- 803k transactions (❗️)
We're proving the network's robustness with each day. Thanks to everyone that's participated! pic.twitter.com/rHogSLqYv9
The "Finding Yourself" challenge was successfully launched and completed. Currently, we have 5 ongoing challenges, including "Max Balance Transfer Points," "Noble Warrior," and "Magic Nomination Pools." You can find detailed information about these challenges on our Clash documentation site.
Events
The whole team was in Istanbul for Devconnect last month!
We kicked off the week with our first Hot Take Series, focusing on the “Battle of the L2s” and their different visions for the rollup future. The day was full of great talks, insightful panel discussions, and networking opportunities with over 350 members of our community. If you were able to join us, thank you for making it such a great event! We loved to see our Avail community IRL. In case you missed it, we have all the talks and panels available to watch on our Youtube playlist.
We also participated on a number of panels including Altlayer’s Rollup Frontier Day, L2BEAT and Scroll’s L2 Days, Madara’s KebDara, EthStorage’s Innovation Nexus, W3DC : Dreamworld, NethermindEth Summit, libp2p Day, and LumozOrg's RaaS Day.
If you missed us in Istanbul, we’ve been at ETHIndia this week, speaking at events like Polygon Connect Polkadot Pulse, Stackr HackerHouse, Interfaces, Protocols Conf, Founder House, and zk-bankai. If you haven’t already, come say hi to the team!
Our Favorite Tweets
If you're still having doubts about performance of data availability sampling (DAS) and KZG opening checks, just try out our web light client: https://t.co/l56bj3H0t4
— Prabal Banerjee (@prabalbanerjee) November 23, 2023
But here is what it took to build it, why it is WIP and what lies ahead 🧵 https://t.co/ym6ZjBfOk0
We believe Avail is the future of data availability.
— Avail (@AvailProject) November 19, 2023
Why?
Because we already have some advanced features that put us ahead of the competition.
What are they?
1. Avail is the only DA layer that can sample from its light client P2P network instead of relying on full nodes for…
As I'm leaving Istanbul, the last week around @EFDevconnect has been awesome. Teşekkürler Türkiye. A quick recap:
— Prabal Banerjee (@prabalbanerjee) November 18, 2023
Sunday was full of anticipation and nervousness. We at @AvailProject were hosting our maiden event, the first of the Hot Take Series. The day was full of catching...
The *hard* fact is that most app-chains cannot scale enough as long as the requirement is to post calldata on Ethereum. Here are some cost estimations if you had to do just 1000 transactions each on some of the most popular dapps using a traditional zkEVM rollup construct. pic.twitter.com/17sXFZkeb1
— qedk (@qedk_) November 14, 2023
Next Month
We were busy during our time in Istanbul, and have some new whiteboard sessions for you, dropping soon! Keep an eye on our Youtube channel.
Be sure to learn more about what’s next with Clash of Nodes and join our waiting lists at clash.availproject.org to stay in the loop!
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