Avail: Enhancing Chain Efficiency with Layer-2 Network Integration

Avail, a blockchain solution focused on Web3 unification, has announced strategic collaborations with five leading layer-2 networks to improve data availability and rollup unification. The new partners, including Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, StarkWare, and zkSync, will leverage Avail’s data availability layer and unification architecture. The collaboration aims to create scalable and cost-efficient chains that can onboard millions of users. Avail’s data availability layer serves as the foundation for the unification architecture and offers mathematical guarantees of data availability and a built-in validator ecosystem.

Marc Boiron, CEO of Polygon Labs, emphasized the importance of a strong data availability layer for developers, as it enhances the overall developer experience. Limited data availability is one of the major obstacles to mainstream adoption in the blockchain industry and hinders network scalability. Avail operates with an “un-opinionated base layer” that can support any blockchain, providing solutions that optimize data and unify the Web3 for a seamless user experience.

Lowering friction for developers to scale blockchain applications has been a significant topic of discussion over the past year. Avail co-founder Anurag Arjun highlighted the need for infrastructure that unifies rollups during the ETHGlobal conference in London in March. Avail aims to become a rollup-agnostic platform, serving major rollup protocols like StarkWare, zkSync, Arbitrum, and Optimism. The recent collaborations with the layer-2 networks are a step towards achieving this goal.

Earlier this month, Avail announced an airdrop of 600 million AVAIL tokens to users. This latest announcement builds upon that initiative and further solidifies Avail’s commitment to advancing Web3 unification and data availability. By collaborating with prominent layer-2 networks, Avail aims to tackle the scalability challenge and facilitate the mass adoption of blockchain applications.