Avail integrates leading layer-2 networks to create more cost-efficient chains

Avail, a blockchain solution focused on Web3 unification, announced new strategic collaborations with five leading layer-2 networks in an effort to create more scalable data availability and rollup unification.

On April 25, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, StarkWare and zkSync were revealed as new partners that will leverage Avail’s data availability layer and unification architecture. Avail said the collaboration aims to create more scalable, cost-efficient, and composable chains that are able to onboard millions of users.

This is possible through Avail’s data availability layer (DA), which will serve as the basis for the unification architecture through mathematical guarantees of data availability, along with a built-in validator ecosystem.

Marc Boiron, the CEO of Polygon Labs, said that a strong DA layer is important for an enhanced developer experience. 

“It’s important to provide this type of optionality to developers when the ultimate goal is to enable a thriving and robust ecosystem of connected blockchains through the AggLayer.”

Limited data availability remains one of the blockchain industry’s biggest roadblocks when it comes to mainstream adoption and optimizing networks for mass usage. Without the proper amount of DA, scaling becomes bottlenecked.

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According to the announcement Avail is operating with an “un-opinionated base layer” that can support any blockchain. 

Eli Ben-Sasson, the CEO of StarkWare, said that in trying to build a “seamless user experience for everyone” solutions that optimize data and unify the Web3 are key.

The idea of lower friction for developers in order to scale for mass adoption of blockchain applications has been widely discussed throughout the last year. It is a major hurdle for networks looking to expand.

During the ETHGlobal conference in London in March, the co-founder of Avail, Anurag Arjun, spoke with Cointelegraph stressing the ecosystem’s need for more infrastructure that unifies rollups. 

In March, he said that they aim to become a rollup agnostic platform serving major rollup protocols such as StarkWare, zkSync, Arbitrum and Optimism. Therefore this latest announcement marks a step in that direction.

It comes shortly after Avail announced an airdrop on April 18 of 600 million of its native AVAIL tokens to users.

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