The Polygon project team will launch a testnet for Avail in the second quarter. The solution aims to reduce the load on blockchains by moving data and increasing scalability across the board.
#Polygon is building a modular suite of scaling solutions to empower chains and dApps of any size.
And today, we’re sharing our vision for @0xPolygonAvail, a new data availability blockchain that improves scalability across the board.
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— Polygon | $MATIC 💜 (@0xPolygon) April 6, 2022
Avail will complement the startup’s current offerings — Edge, Miden, Zero, Hermez and Nightfall.
Avail is positioned as a data-availability layer for Optimism, Validium, and other zero-knowledge proofs-based solutions that will run on top of it. The technology will allow data to be stored and verified off-chain, serving as a key component of the modular network architecture concept.
Currently, dapps are typically hosted not on blockchains but on external servers. Even their reverification can be costly.
Avail specializes in ordering transactions and preserving their availability, without validating them as is done in typical blockchains, — explained The Block co-founder of Polygon Anurag Arjun.
In the project’s blog it states that Avail will allow creating arbitrary blockchains with any execution environment (EVM, Wasm and others). Developers will be able to outsource the consensus layer while retaining full control over the network.
Avail will scale without sacrificing security or decentralization. This will, among other things, raise the throughput of Rollups and improve the user experience of Web 3.0.
To illustrate, an analogy is drawn with the transition from VHS tapes and vinyl records to hard drives, which allowed software to read data on any medium.
Polygon is one of the largest blockchain ecosystems. The platform has over 7,000 decentralized applications.
Earlier in March, Polygon unveiled a zero-knowledge proof-based identity service.
Earlier, the project raised $450 million from Sequoia Capital India with participation from more than 40 venture investors.
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