Data availability (DA) blockchain startup Avail announced on Thursday that it will interface with five significant layer-2 networks in the Ethereum ecosystem.
These chains consist of zkSync, Polygon, StarkWare, Arbitrum, and Optimism. Users will have the option to use Avail for data availability, which is a service that these “rollup networks” require in order to store the massive amounts of data generated by all of the transactions that are occurring. The fact that DA solutions can offer a quicker and less expensive method of storing data than on the main Ethereum blockchain is one of its main selling points.
Alongside other DA initiatives that have garnered attention in recent months—such as Eigenlayer’s EigenDA, which went online earlier this month, and Celestia, which went live in October—Avail entered the spotlight. Although it is now in testnet, Avail’s co-founder Anurag Arjun said that the DA will soon go live.
Users of these rollups are among the categories that will be eligible for the AVAIL token, according to Avail’s token airdrop strategy that was announced last week.
Avail revealed in February that it would be releasing two more core products: Avail Fusion, which will add the security of cryptocurrency assets like bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) to Avail’s security, and Nexus, a layer that links various rollups to each other through the Avail ecosystem (similar to Polygon’s AggLayer).
“DA is more production ready, as it will be released soon,” Arjun stated in a recent interview. “One of our projects, Nexus, is still in development. To better integrate the Nexus component, we are collaborating with a few of these teams.”