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XXXsatoshi
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With eigenlayer all the rage and strong interest in AVS, thought I'd share a little about the similar work we're building at Lava. 🧵 Lava is a protocol which coordinates node operators to provide services, primarily around blockchain data access. The first service we offer is RPC but soon expanding to subgraphs
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There's 3 main components to Lava: - the network of node operators that take on different services - the services, which are defined and added as JSON-files called "specs" e.g. Ethereum RPC spec - the protocol which pairs consumers to providers and incentivizes providers to offer high quality service
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This creates an economy for permisionless innovation at the node level. Anyone can write a spec, add it to the protocol, and the network will serve it to meet demand for data. e.g. we're currently integrating with Subsquid to bring subgraphs and indexing to Lava
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Not only can any API be added, but specs can be replicated across chains, meaning Lava offers RPC & indexing with chain abstraction. There's no need for a new RPC endpoint for every new rollup - you simply use the Lava SDK and can make calls to multiple chains with one credential.
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So what we're building is a holistic economy for any type of data access, on any chain. And the protocol directly scores and rewards providers across QoS - latency, uptime and accuracy. With other innovations like dual-caching and pairing optimizations, we've seen 3x in response times
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we're big fans of eigenlayer and their approach with restaking is innovative and different to how Lava is approaching things (we're an appchain and bootstrapping the node set with native incentives). But mainnet is coming Q1 and if you're interested in this corner of middleware innovation, happy to hear feedback :)
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