Discover how the Avail Stack revolutionizes appchain development by unlocking unprecedented flexibility and scalability. Seamlessly connect to apps, users and liquidity across multiple blockchain ecosystems from day one.
There are many benefits to building a standalone blockchain. You can optimize it for a specific use case like high-frequency trading, gaming, or enhanced privacy for enterprise use cases like stablecoins, RWAs and the tokenization of TradFi.
Today however, Appchain developers are forced to make a compromise, access the benefits of a standalone blockchain and fight for connections with other blockchain networks, or build on a general purpose blockchain and forgo the benefits of a purpose built appchain. The Avail Stack gives appchain developers the ability to achieve both.
Teams generally choose to build a custom appchain for a variety of reasons, including:
Customization: Appchains offer immense customizability, allowing developers to alter core aspects of their chain, such as the gas fee mechanism, key infrastructure, or even the smart contract programming language. This level of flexibility is not typically available on general-purpose blockchains, which impose the same guidelines on all applications.
Scalability: Appchains can reduce congestion, lower transaction costs, and enhance scalability by operating independently. This is particularly beneficial for applications requiring high throughput like games, consumer applications or large scale enterprise use cases.
Cost Efficiency: Operating on a shared blockchain often means higher gas fees, especially during periods of network congestion. Appchains can reduce these costs by providing a dedicated environment where projects can fine-tune performance and integrate custom features without external bottlenecks.
Specialized Use Cases: Appchains are optimized for specific use cases, such as gaming, where high-speed interactions and low latency are crucial. They can prioritize these requirements and remove fees that might disrupt the user experience, ensuring a more seamless and engaging environment.
The Fragmentation Dilemma For Appchains
There is however an obvious challenge that comes from this approach, every new chain forms another island in an increasingly fragmented landscape.
For a new blockchain to connect with the surrounding ecosystem, it requires a manual and expensive integration. It’s not like you can just do a single connection and be done, each connection is largely independent of one another.
While some rollup clusters enable interoperability within pre-defined ecosystems, interoperability between rollup clusters and beyond remains fragmented.
Unlike the internet today, where linking websites is as easy as adding a hyperlink, connecting a new blockchain to the existing ecosystem is a challenge. This can quickly make the benefits of creating a standalone blockchain less appealing, as the costs and complexities of integration start stacking up.
This is largely where things stand today. Appchain developers are forced to compromise, they can access the benefits of a standalone blockchain and fight for liquidity through multiple integrations, or build on a general purpose blockchain and forgo the performance benefits of an appchain.
The Avail Stack gives appchain developers both - a stack for building custom, appchains and connections to applications, users and liquidity across multiple networks.
Let’s look at Sophon as an example. Sophon built a purpose built-blockchain optimized for scale on Avail. It has near-instant transactions, subsecond completion times, low, predictable fees, and it recently became the first ever validium to have its data attestations bridged to Ethereum.
Since launch, Sophon has processed nearly 100 million transactions, enabling real world impacts like 22 million verified jobs on Aethir, and over $12 million in total revenue on Open.
With the Avail Nexus upgrade, Sophon can now connect with other blockchain ecosystems, including Ethereum, Optimism, Polygon, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, Scroll and Kaia.
Let’s say a user wants to buy a ticket on the Sophon network using Open, but they only have USDC on Optimism and Avalanche. Rather than have to manually bridge their funds to Sophon, then initiate the purchase, a user could simply buy the ticket on Open, using the funds they have on Optimism and Avalanche in just a few clicks. They wouldn’t need to leave the Open app once.
Developers can now benefit from building highly optimized purpose built blockchains without fear of fragmentation or creating another liquidity silo.
To see how Avail can connect your custom Appchain with the rest of the ecosystem, try out the demo below. You can see how easy it is to quickly move tokens between ecosystems and deposit funds into any smart contract from different networks. In this demo, you can deposit USDT and USDC into Aave from any of the connected networks.
Enabling this is as simple as using the Nexus SDK to plug-in multichain liquidity and enable users to move funds with just a few clicks.
Build once, scale everywhere.
By AvailProject
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