Founders David and Dima met and chatted with the community in discord about 30 minutes. Seemed like nice guys, and they patiently answered a lot of questions.
Takeaways:
- NordVM will increase throughput, provide a liquidity hub for dapps, have optimizations for orderbooks/trading, and security for rollup to rollup transfers
- Layer N has an Eigenlayer DA (data availability) integration (more DA integrations in the future)
- testnet results: 1 billion transactions settled, 70k user
- anticipating a fully functional mainnet rollout the second half of the year
- Susa Exchange might be live in a month
- Personal details of founders shared:
- David — currently in the Bay area, from canada. went to Harvard and studied CS/bioinformatics
2. Dima — ukraine, poland, to mcgill in Canada. neuroscience?
- ongoing contests in discord — vote for thread contest, sticker contest, and other ongoing opportunities to contribute