Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Sophon Partners with Avail to Enhance Onchain Gaming and Entertainment

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Sophon, a blockchain platform with a strong focus on gaming and entertainment, has announced a strategic partnership with Avail to enhance user experiences. This collaboration integrates Avail’s Data Availability (DA) and Light Client technology to support Sophon’s ecosystem, including ZKsync and Avail’s advancements.

The partnership aims to leverage Avail DA’s capabilities to underpin applications in gaming, social media, art, AI, and prediction markets. These applications thrive in environments that demand low latency and high throughput, ensuring rich user experiences. Avail DA offers a cost-effective and future-proof solution, with native support for KZG commitments and Data Availability Sampling, aligning perfectly with Sophon’s vision.

Avail’s Light Client technology will play a crucial role in supporting Sophon’s decentralized infrastructure. This technology allows data sampling on low-powered devices, such as smartphones and laptops, ensuring users can verify data availability instantly. Avail DA’s integration is expected to scale consumer experiences onchain, maintaining data availability and transaction integrity while managing costs effectively.

Strategic Partnerships and Technological Advancements

Sophon, incubated by Merit Circle, has established partnerships with Beam, Zentry, Mirai Labs, and Aethir, positioning itself as a leading platform for developers and users. Led by Seb, former head of the ZKsync DeFi ecosystem, Sophon is set to launch on the mainnet with support from Matter Labs and the ZKsync ecosystem. This launch will showcase the potential of combining ZK Stack and Avail technologies.

According to Seb, Co-Founder and CEO of Sophon, “Maintaining data availability and ensuring transaction integrity while keeping costs manageable is a complex task. For a platform like Sophon, these challenges are magnified.” Avail’s DA mechanism addresses these challenges, offering a scalable off-chain solution optimized for ZK Stack technology.

Avail’s Growing Role in ZK Technology

Avail is rapidly becoming a key component in new ZK blockchains. Recently, Avail announced its integration with Lens, another blockchain built with the ZK Stack, enhancing onchain social networks. Avail DA’s performance is unparalleled among DA layers, providing native validity proof and Data Availability Sampling support.

Led by former Polygon co-founder Anurag Arjun, Avail has raised $75 million from investors like Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Dragonfly Capital, and Cyber Capital. Avail’s modular DA layer went live on the mainnet in July, and Sophon’s public mainnet launch is expected before December 2024, offering multiple opportunities for developers to build with Avail.

For more information, visit the official announcement here.


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Shree Narayan Jha
Shree Narayan Jha
Shree Narayan Jha is a tech professional with extensive experience in blockchain technology. As a writer for CoinsHolder.com, Shree simplifies complex blockchain concepts, providing readers with clear and insightful content on the latest trends and developments in the industry.

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