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Avail, Long-Awaited 'Data Availability' Blockchain Project, Launches Main Network

The project, spun out of Polygon in 2023, has raised $75 million of funding and claims unique technologies as a provider of "data availability," or DA – the speciality of storing reams of transactional data produced by Ethereum layer-2 networks.

Avail co-founders Anurag Arjun and Prabal Banarjee (Avail)

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The Protocol: Another Episode in the Layer-2 Teams Drama

We take a look at what unfolded after Matter Labs’ planned to trademark the term “ZK.”

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Polygon Spinoff Avail Raises $43M in Series A Funding

The news comes three months after Avail, a data availability company, disclosed its $27 million seed funding round.

Avail co-founders Anurag Arjun and Prabal Banarjee (Avail)

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Avail Data Availability Integrated by Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, StarkWare, ZkSync

The chains' users will be able to opt in or out to use Avail for data availability, to stash the reams of data produced for all their transactions taking place.

Avail co-founders Anurag Arjun and Prabal Banarjee (Avail)

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Avail Confirms Token Airdrop Plans, a Week After Leaked Screenshots

Avail shared in a blog post that 354,605 wallet addresses are eligible to claim the 600 million tokens in their “unification drop.”

Avail co-founders Anurag Arjun and Prabal Banarjee (Avail)

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Avail, Blockchain Data Availability Project, Sketches Out Eligibility for Token Airdrop

A screenshot of a document describing the eligibility criteria for the airdrop was posted on the social-media platform X by the user @Bitcoineo, and Avail’s public-relations team flagged the tweet to CoinDesk, describing it as a "leak."

Avail co-founders Anurag Arjun and Prabal Banarjee (Avail)

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Ethereum Finalizes 'Dencun' Upgrade, in Landmark Move to Reduce Data Fees

A key element of the upgrade is to enable a new place for storing data on Ethereum – referred to as "proto-danksharding," which gives room for a dedicated space on the blockchain that is separate from regular transactions, and comes at a lower cost.

Screenshot from Nethermind's Dencun watch party (Nethermind/YouTube)

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Avail, an Ethereum Data Network to Rival Celestia, Raises $27M In Seed Round

The funds will be used to build out its three core products, "Avail DA," "Nexus" and "Fusion Security."

Avail co-founders Anurag Arjun and Prabal Banarjee (Avail)

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Celestia Rival Avail Inks Agreement With Starkware as Blockchain Data Race Heats Up

Avail's new "data availability" solution, currently in testing, and Madara, which is Starkware's sequencer, are both expected to go live in early 2024. They might be used in conjunction to create new application chains or "appchains."

Avail founder Anurag Arjun (Avail)

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Near Foundation Joins Celestia in Race to Provide 'Data Availability' for Ethereum Rollups

The project's new "NEAR DA" aims to provide an alternate venue that could handle data produced by Ethereum's fast-growing network or auxiliary blockchains or "layer-2 networks."

Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder, NEAR Protocol (Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

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