# Layer N team AMA 5/9/2024

By [NFT Matrix](https://paragraph.com/@nftmatrix) · 2024-05-09

defi, rollups, rollup

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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

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*Originally published on [NFT Matrix](https://paragraph.com/@nftmatrix/layer-n-team-ama-592024)*