Avail, a spin-off company from Ethereum layer-2 solution Polygon, has secured $43 million in a Series A funding round to develop an integration layer that addresses scalability issues and fragmentation within the Web3 ecosystem, the company said in a June 4 statement. Yes. CryptoSlate.
This round brings Avail’s total funding to $75 million, including the previous $32 million raised during the pre-seed period.
Famous venture capital companies such as Founders Fund, Dragonfly Capital, and Cyber Fund participated in the Series A funding.
Avail co-founder Anurag Arjun said the funding will allow the company to “continue to address the most critical issues facing Web3 today, such as blockchain fragmentation, insufficient data availability, and limited scaling.”
Notably, the funds arrive ahead of the company’s Avail DA mainnet launch, expected in a few weeks. Avail DA said it demonstrated impressive performance during its incentivized testnet phase, processing more than 118 million transactions and facilitating the submission of more than 140 GB of data.
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Meanwhile, Avail plans to address the highlights with an integration layer. This modular technology stack combines data availability and shared security mechanisms to promote seamless interoperability between modular blockchains.
As a result, this initiative is expected to pave the way for developing a secure, cost-effective and user-friendly blockchain ecosystem.
Additionally, the funds will support the development of Fusion Security, a mechanism designed to ensure shared security across the Avail ecosystem by leveraging native assets from existing ecosystems such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Accordingly, Avail plans to release Avail Nexus, a zero-knowledge rollup built on top of Avail DA to address cross-rollup interoperability issues. This layer acts as a verification hub, consolidating multiple rollups, alleviating issues such as siled liquidity caused by blockchain fragmentation.
Joey Krug, Partner at Founders Fund, said:
“Avail makes data availability, a historically costly problem in blockchain, much more affordable and efficient through an innovative, tailored approach. “The DA solution, combined with the Nexus interoperability layer and Fusion security layer, allows teams to leverage Avail’s technology stack to create new protocols across all cryptocurrency categories very seamlessly and easily.”