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

  • There will be multiple DA integrations in the future

• testnet results: 1 billion transactions settled, 70k user

• 5 year vision - layer N as a new foundational layer of a new internet

• 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

  • Dima — Ukraine, Poland, to McGill University in Canada. neuroscience?

• ongoing contests in discord — vote for thread contest, sticker contest, and other ongoing opportunities to contribute

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

  • There will be multiple DA integrations in the future

• testnet results: 1 billion transactions settled, 70k user

• 5 year vision - layer N as a new foundational layer of a new internet

• 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

  • Dima — Ukraine, Poland, to McGill University in Canada. neuroscience?

• ongoing contests in discord — vote for thread contest, sticker contest, and other ongoing opportunities to contribute