Avail, Long-Awaited Blockchain Project for ‘Data Availability,’ 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.

Polygon Spinoff Avail Raises $43M in Series A Funding The news comes three months after Avail, the data availability company, disclosed its $27 million seed funding round.

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, 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 to tweet to CoinDesk, describing it as a “leak.”

Avail, Data Availability Solution to Rival Celestia, Unveils ‘Incentivized Testnet’ The announcement comes as Celestia’s recent launch and airdrop has kindled interest in “modular” blockchain projects that can relieve the burden on primary networks like Ethereum.

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Avail, Spun Out of Polygon, Launches Data Attestation Bridge to Ethereum The move represents a step forward in Avail’s plan to help secondary networks in the Ethereum ecosystem to speed up their processing – by giving them an alternate way to store the data, and verify its existence and availability, besides storing it on the main blockchain.