Avail DA Mainnet & the AVAIL token are now live!
Today marks the launch of Avail DA, the first modular data availability layer using validity proofs + data availability sampling. Now, build blockchains that truly scale with demand.
The AVAIL token powers the network—pay fees,
It's time for the final few steps for Avail DA's mainnet!
So far, thousands of chains have been deployed and more than 100 million transactions have been processed on the testnet. We just have a few more things to do before we launch our mainnet.
1. Light Client Challenge to
With the Avail DA mainnet approaching, it's about time we gave you a refresher on its core features. They make us different from other DA layers.
A deep-dive into
1. Validity proofs
2. Erasure coding
3. Light clients
4. Data availability sampling
5. Expandable blockspace
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Hear us out, if you’re building an L2 on Bitcoin, you should use Avail. Here’s why:
BTC L2s can move 99% faster when leveraging Avail DA as an intermediate fast DA layer before posting to Bitcoin for DA.
Avail DA has 20 sec blocks and takes around 2 blocks to reach finality
Avail gives you interoperability with all other blockchains, no matter where you choose to build. OP Stack, Ethereum, Polygon CDK, you name it.
With the foundation of a common DA layer built for security and scale (Avail DA), interoperability between chains is drastically
Avail’s Light Client Lift-Off challenge is officially live. To enter for your chance to win community rewards and the first batch of NFTs on Avail, visit
Everyone that runs a Light Client will be eligible to claim a Blobscription NFT. Completing the
The day is here! We’re unfolding the cards!
Avail raises $27m, led by
@foundersfund
and
@dragonfly_xyz
to accelerate the unification of web3!
With this, we’ll build the Avail trinity - a three-phase roadmap aimed at unifying multiple ecosystems in web3.
Consisting:
• Avail
Unification Drop Claim - Phase 2 launches now!
To reward Avail’s community, Phase 2 introduces rewards for various groups, including:
• Expanded rewards for an increased number of Clash of Nodes participants
• Rewards for Liquid Staking Protocol Users for Polygon PoS
• And
We're thrilled to announce the launch of the Avail Foundation!
The mission: build trust-minimized systems for global coordination.
The Avail Foundation will support research, provide grants, and foster education to grow the Avail ecosystem.
Read more about the Avail
Exciting announcement: We’ve partnered with
@dymension
in our Clash of Nodes testnet!
Dymension is a modular settlement layer that makes it simple to deploy RollApps - app chains that leverage the Dymension Hub (L1) to secure their funds and can easily post transaction data to
It's here - Avail's Clash of Nodes incentivized testnet is officially up and running! 🌟
This is a major step towards Mainnet, with a chance for validators, light clients, and everyone to test our network, earn points, and more. Ready for a journey?
Here's what's ahead...
Light Client Lift-off is nearing its close ✌️
1M+ of you participated by running light clients on the testnet - wildly exceeding our expectations for the challenge.
Rewards themselves will be issued soon. Here are the details:
• Winner NFTs: We’ll have Gold, Silver, and
Sydney, thanks for all the love! We had a great week at
@ETHGlobal
Sydney last week, with
@privacy_prophet
spreading the word about Avail.
Also, congratulations to the winners of the Avail track:
Keep scaling 🪜
The Light Client Lift-off has officially concluded. A huge thank you to the over 1 million participants that ran a Light Client! Stay tuned for more info about rewards.
A special thanks to our partners
@BwareLabs
and
@blobscriptions
for their support in making this challenge a
Thanks for your participation in Phase 1 of the Unification Drop Claim. The official claim window is now closed.
There will be more information coming next week on Phase 2 of the claim, which includes:
• Expanded rewards for an increased number of Clash of Nodes
The AVAIL token is going to play a major role in our unification layer for web3.
As you might know, we're building Avail DA, Nexus, and Fusion to form a unification layer for web3 that addresses blockchain scalability, interoperability, and security.
In each of these products,
This week we launched Light Client Lift-off to encourage you to push our testnet to the limit...
We did NOT expect this:
- 1.5B hits to RPC (past 24 hrs)
- 350k light clients online (past 12 hrs)
- 200k wallet logins
For those yet to join, give it a shot - but it may take a few
The Avail ecosystem is expanding every day.
From chains, supporting L2s, infrastructure & RaaS providers. Our partners play a vital part in the upcoming mainnet.
Here’s to all partners in the ecosystem 🥂
Powering AI Gaming with
@nim_network
With Avail joining NIM’s AI Gaming Coalition, we’re excited to bring smooth and fun gaming experiences to our communities.
The web3 gaming landscape is going to change for the better 🐒
We're excited to announce that
@AvailProject
is joining our AI Gaming Coalition.
Our strategic partnerships will focus on creating specialized DA solutions for AI Gaming.
Want to be ready to stake your AVAIL when the token is live? It’s easy.
1. Visit and connect your Avail wallet.
2. Choose your staking method: direct nomination or use a nomination pool.
3. Select how you’d like to collect your rewards.
4. Start earning.
Want to Increase your chances of winning rewards in our Light Client lift-off? Just make sure your Light Client stays online and stick with us ☝️
Here’s how it works – The longer your light client runs means higher the uptime. And higher uptime leads to higher chances of
The first ever NFTs on Avail are here!
If you were on the leaderboard for the light client challenge, keep an eye out for these NFTs in your wallets when we launch mainnet.
Update: Braavos and ArgentX mobile support is now live for Starknet users to claim the Unification Drop.
Head over to and connect your wallet to verify if you’re eligible for AVAIL.
3. Rollup Users
With the future of blockchains converging on rollups as being a critical solution to scalability challenges, we wanted to express gratitude to the most active rollup users, acknowledging their role in shaping the future of the technology.
The users of these
Next stop: Avail DA Mainnet
If you’re new here, let’s catch you up on what Avail DA is all about. A great starting point is the report on Avail from
@Blockworks_
, which just came out.
Here are the top 5 takeaways 👇
Staking AVAIL is essential for the security and growth of Avail. By nominating validators, participants secure and contribute to the network.
Upon the launch of mainnet, if you’re looking to stake, here’s how you can do it:
Visit to access the Avail
There’s just over a day left to participate in Light Client Lift-off. The light clients online the longest will win NFTs, and everyone will be eligible for randomly awarded community rewards.
The challenge officially ends on Tues, Apr 9 at 2pm PT / 11pm CEST.
Build on an L2 of your choice, Avail DA has your data availability needs covered.
We’re excited to announce that developers building rollups on
@0xPolygon
,
@arbitrum
,
@Optimism
,
@StarkWare
and
@zksync
can now utilise Avail DA.
Technical deep dives coming soon! Meanwhile, you
Welcome
@OKX_Ventures
to the unification journey!
We’re joined by OKX Ventures as part of our Series A round announced recently.
Excited to be building the unification layer for web3 with their backing.
Read more here -
Bitcoin halving is here!!! But what does it have to do with Avail?
Here’s what ⬇️
With less BTC going into circulation, the ‘Gold Standard’ in crypto-economic security is only getting stronger.
High crypto-economic security enables you to do lots of things. One of those is
It’s going to be a big week, make sure to get some rest today.
The Light Client challenge launches next week. And we’re opening the gates wide open for EVERYONE. Literally, any of you can participate!!!
With Avail’s integration with
@Optimism
’s new Alt-DA Interface, accessing validity-proven blockspace on Avail DA is simple.
Deploy a chain within Optimism and keep scaling.
🔴Alt-DA Mode is now available for the OP Stack in beta! 🔴
Any DA layer can now build their own DA server to integrate into the OP Stack.
Three of the most popular decentralized DA layers have already launched, and OP Stack Chain devs can use
@CelestiaOrg
,
@eigen_da
, and
That’s a wrap for Clash of Nodes partner challenges! 🛡️
After over 2.5k app chain and RollApp deployments on Clash of Nodes, today, we’re bringing the curtain down on our partner challenges with
@karnotxyz
and
@dymension
.
We’re immensely grateful to all of the developers and
Navigating the diverse world of rollups can be hard.
With so many options out there, do you ever feel like at some point they all need to work together? 🤔
With today’s seed raise, Avail is accelerating the unification of web3 through the Avail Trinity. What’s it all about?
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
The Unification Drop Claim ends now. Thanks for participating and stay tuned for future rewards programs from Avail including a Points program.
Watch this space for more 🤝
🚨 Attention Avail community! 🚨
Please note that the official AVAIL token has not been launched yet. Anything claiming to be AVAIL at this time is a scam. Stay vigilant and await official announcements from us.
🥁 Drumrolls for our sponsors, please! 🥁
Our Dubai edition of the Hot Take Series is supported by our amazing partners. We'd like to take a moment to thank them.
First up is
@zkLink_Official
- The first aggregated Layer 3 zkEVM network that links Ethereum and its Layer 2
REMINDER: The support for Clash of Nodes has been massive! We appreciate everyone’s support, and wanted to take a moment to clarify some of the rules.
- Eligibility for rewards is based on placement in the challenge leaderboard, which tracks the performance of blockchains built
Avail is unifying web3 one step at a time.
The Unification Drop rewarded
@0xPolygon
PoS stakers, and now Polygon zkEVM developers can integrate with Avail DA.
Let’s take a closer look at what this means. 👇
🔵 Developers can use Polygon Chain Development Kit (CDK) to build
By staking AVAIL, participants contribute to the security and growth of the network and get rewarded.
Avail employs Nominated Proof of Stake (NPoS) consensus mechanism.
NPoS, inherited from the Substrate ecosystem, invites token holders to nominate validators, amplifying
Another ecosystem joins our arena to be unified!
Developers can now choose Avail DA for their Data Availability needs when building on
@ParticleNtwrk
.
More on Avail DA and how it works with Particle's Aggregated DA below.
Core to our modular L1's design is a novel technology: Aggregated Data Availability (AggDA).
AggDA taps into the top DA providers, strategically leveraging their best qualities for max efficiency.
This 🧵 will cover AggDA, and the role
@AvailProject
plays in it.
Validators and node-runners, this one is for you!
Spinning up your very own node just got so much easier, thanks to
@SpheronFDN
.
With Spheron Compute, you can set up and run your node in <2 minutes and to make the process easier, they've also built a Telegram bot.
Learn
The Turing testnet is live! Turing is Avail's final pre-mainnet testing environment, focused on vetting deployments, stress tests, and scalability assessments.
As you transition from Goldberg to Turing, here are some things to keep in mind:
1️⃣ Bugs are expected as we stress
So... what have we been up to? May's Road to Mainnet is out now.
In this edition, we cover:
1. Technical updates
2. Network updates
3. Phase 2 of our Unification Drop
4. Partnership updates
5. Avail's events presence
Read more here -
With our most recent round of partnerships confirmed with major L2 players, Avail DA is that much closer to launching on mainnet.
Check out our full Roadmap to Mainnet post here to see our progress -
We welcome our community members to stake AVAIL once the mainnet is live, contribute to the security and growth of the network, and get rewarded.
Avail employs a Nominated Proof of Stake (NPoS) consensus mechanism.
With NPoS, token holders can nominate validators to secure
Avail 🤝
@StarkWareLtd
At Avail, we want to make it as easy as possible for developers to build. So we worked closely with the StarkWare team to build a DA interface to integrate Avail’s DA layer to Starknet appchains based on Madara. Use the DA interface that we are building
🛡️ Clash of Nodes is coming... 🛡️
Avail is gearing up for a major leap towards Mainnet, and we're looking for validators to join us for our incentivized testnet program, Clash of Nodes. You'll get an early test-run of the base layer designed for the rollup future.
Come help
New challenge alert! 🚨
We've partnered with
@karnotxyz
in our Clash of Nodes testnet! Karnot is a Rollup-as-a-Service provider for
@MadaraStarknet
chains - and now, Madara chains that use Avail automatically earn points on the Incentivized testnet.
Validator Update 🚨
Once mainnet launches, anyone is free to acquire AVAIL tokens and follow the step-by-step guide to become a validator.
The Avail blockchain is secured by Nominated Proof of Stake (NPoS), which provides fairer reward distributions to validators and more
Now the Unification Drop is live, we’re taking the final steps towards launching Avail DA on mainnet which is going to pave the way for an interoperable, low-cost, and scalable blockchain future for all
More details? Let’s dive in 👇
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There will be two ways to stake on Avail: direct nomination and participation in nomination pools.
Direct Nomination: Select one or more validators to delegate your stake to, and directly participate and earn rewards.
Nomination Pools: Collective pools of staked tokens
Liquid staking on
@AvailProject
so smooth, Deq will be your favourite way to stake.
Introducing Deq, a native liquid staking protocol for AVAIL on Ethereum. Get stAvail for staking and also earn points.
Launching tomorrow! Till then, you can find us at
Unification Drop Claim - Phase 2 launches now!
To reward Avail’s community, Phase 2 introduces rewards for various groups, including:
• Expanded rewards for an increased number of Clash of Nodes participants
• Rewards for Liquid Staking Protocol Users for Polygon PoS
• And
170k+ light clients are running concurrently right now in the Light Client Lift-off.
This is your last chance to join before the challenge ends in a few hours!
Accelerate the unification of
#web3
with
@AvailProject
’s debut campaign on Galxe.
Complete the quests below to secure a raffle ticket for the grand prize pool! ⬇️