Polygon announces scalable data infrastructure

Ethereum (ETH) Scalable Infrastructure developer Polygon has announced the implementation of a universally scalable data delivery solution called Avail.

According to a press release released on Monday, Polygon announced that Avail will act as the data availability engine for layers of execution such as sidechains, standalone networks, and layer two protocols.

One of the main obstacles to efficient blockchain scaling is the issue of data availability. Malicious actors can send blocks of incomplete data to the network, and none of the other participants are the wiser.

To address this issue, the Polygon team explains that Avail uses polynomial commit and erase encryption to combat evidence of data encryption fraud by providing a two-way data layer.

Instead of creating their own data availability logs, the implementation layers can reduce the role of the Avail layer, with the latter acting as a secure data repository.

For independent chains, communicating with Polygons Avail is intended to enable these networks to rely on later Validator security protocols. Therefore, these chains should be able to solve data availability problems without having to run their own validators.

For Layer 2 protocols, the announcement showed that scaling solutions like Validium can increase their scalability throughput by implementing Avail to ensure offline data availability functionality.

Commenting on the importance of Avail amid ongoing efforts to increase the scalability of the blockchain, the announcement quotes Polygon co-founder Anurag Arjun as saying, “Avail is a key component of the new paradigm. , in which blockchains will work in the future. “

“We believe that off-chain and off-chain scaling solutions will require a robustly scalable data availability solution and we look forward to working on it,” added Polygon co-founder in the press release.

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Polygon’s popularity continues to be a growing trend in the crypto and blockchain space with its ever growing user base that is reportedly 1.4 million unique users. Popular decentralized finance like Aave and SushiSwap have also established themselves on Polygon.

Ren’s cross-chain liquidity protocol also recently created a bridge that allows users and projects to move their Ren-based packaged tokens into the polygon ecosystem. In May, the team released a software development kit that allows developers to create standalone chains that are compatible with Ethereum as well as Layer 2 protocols.