Reminder: Whitelisting for AltLayer OG Badge NFT collection ends in 20 min.

https://twitter.com/alt_layer/status/1551530840823308290?s=21&t=T57mWYFJJkwcgRBuc_KYJQ

Whitelisting for AltLayer OG Badge NFT Flash Layer mint has now ended. Stay tuned for more announcements on the whitelisted address list and the 'how to mint' guide. https://twitter.com/alt_layer/status/1551537761865252864?s=20&t=KA1Wkk2NfF1VIRW9zNWWLg

The whitelisting campaign for the OG Badge NFT mint event reached the end of its 20 day run yesterday. The campaign received an overwhelming response from the community and we are excited to be entering the next phase, i.e., the actual minting of the NFTs.

Are you in the whitelist anon? ⁉️

Check Now 👉 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alt-research/ogbadge-whitelist/master/ogbadge-whitelist.txt

More details in the blogpost 👉 https://blog.altlayer.io/altlayer-og-nft-mint-whitelist-26fcf809531f

The AltLayer OG Badge NFT mint event is scheduled on July 28, 2022 at 12:00 GMT, i.e., in about 48 hours time. To prepare the community for the event, we have written a step-by-step guide on how to mint the NFTs.

👉 Check it out and be ready!

https://blog.altlayer.io/altlayer-og-badge-nft-mint-tutorial-68691429d65c

Tomorrow We Mint.

Today is The Day. ⏰

📢 Reminder that the OG Badge mint site and the RPC info for the mint-dedicated flash layer will be made public at 10:00 GMT today (i.e., 2 hours before the start of the mint event).

👀 on socials at 10:00 GMT.

Minting goes live in 2 hours. 🚀

Mint site 👉 https://ogbadge.altlayer.io/
How to Mint Tutorial 👉 https://blog.altlayer.io/altlayer-og-badge-nft-mint-tutorial-68691429d65c

Network info for Metamask 👉

Network Name: flashlayer-1
New RPC URL: https://flashlayer-1-rpc.altlayer.io/
Chain ID: 9990
Currency Symbol: ALT
Block Explorer: https://flashlayer-1-explorer.altlayer.io/

📢 A reminder that sufficient number of ALT tokens have already been airdropped to whitelisted addresses to be used for gas.

Less than 10 mins to go. Time to warm up your fingers and start practicing clicking.

And it's over folks 🎊🎊🎊! Congratulations to all who made it 👏👏.

Thank you everyone who took part. 🙏

If you missed out, there will be similar events in the future. So, stay tuned!

The AltLayer OG Badge NFTs got all minted in about 16 seconds. ⚡️

✨ The NFTs have now been settled on the Ethereum mainnet and the collection is also available on OpenSea.

https://opensea.io/collection/altlayer-og-badge-nft

Last week, AltLayer hosted its first mint event of OG Badge NFTs on a mint-dedicated flash layer. This marked the beginning of an era of application-dedicated disposable execution layers. ✨

A total of 20k users had registered for the event, out of which about 13k addresses were whitelisted. The demand was so high that the event lasted only for about 18 seconds. Unlike other FCFS events, the minters witnessed a flawless user experience devoid of any gas war.

We recorded a TPS of 50 at the peak of the event. To put the number in perspective, the average TPS on the day Optimism received the most traffic was 5.6 TPS, while, the corresponding TPS recorded for Arbitrum was 3.3 TPS. We performed better than the best in the market. Hooray! 🥳

More post-mint analysis in the blog post

https://blog.altlayer.io/the-first-nft-mint-event-on-altlayer-has-concluded-cc0a1926268c

Thank you again to everyone who participated in the event and congratulations to all who are now official AltLayer OG NFT holders. For those who missed out, stay tuned for future events. 🙏

Hi Alters, we all love the cute little ghosts from AAVE and it’s time to reveal our very own mascot — Otters. We are excited to announce the first mascot design competition! What do you think our Otters should be like? It can be 2D, 3D, 2.5D, or 4D. Let your ideas flow free! Check out the details here.
https://twitter.com/alt_layer/status/1554758626044022784?s=20&t=eJXAR0evnqcM8T3vOwH5nw

Alters, this is a gentle reminder: Submit your design before Aug 15th 10:00 GMT. Make sure your design is original (no plagiarism is allowed). Bring out your creativity!
https://blog.altlayer.io/announcing-altlayers-mascot-design-competition-alters-otters-30c46d71c592

We have just published the second part of the introductory series on AltLayer. In this post, we focus on “what is AltLayer”. Check it out! https://blog.altlayer.io/introducing-altlayer-part-ii-an-elastic-scaling-layer-with-application-tailored-rollups-7c61a096c2ed

Hi Alters, the official webpage of our first to market gasless NFT mint solution has gone live. Check out details now and do not hesitate to reach out to us https://altlayer.io/#/nft-solution

Hi Alters, the voting channel for Mascot Design Competition is now open. Vote by adding a👍🏻reaction to the top 3 designs you like the best in our discord voting channel. Voting ends at Aug 19, 10:00 GMT and the final results will be announced on Aug 20.

https://discord.com/invite/altlayer

Hi Alters, without further ado, we hereby announce the winners of Mascot Design Competition:
🥇The winner is xiaoxiao#2630
🥈The runner up is fofen.eth#1716, and
🥉The second runner up is Aelika.
They have each won a special OG Badge. Let's give them a big round of applause!
https://twitter.com/alt_layer/status/1560927367161212928?s=20&t=zssBQIqQ8JhJF9RfDNQQJw

📢 We are excited to announce our next campaign to showcase AltLayer’s capabilities in hosting a large-scale gaming event on a game-dedicated execution layer.

For this campaign, we will be hosting a community round of Dark Forest – a popular on-chain game that uses zero-knowledge proofs.

🎮 Save the dates Sep 9-11 for the gameplay.

✅ To play the game, you need to get registered via Gleam and complete a few simple tasks. Registrations are open and will remain so until Sep 2, 12:00 GMT.

🔗 Registration link -> https://gleam.io/o1mPK/altlayer-darkforest-whitelist

🏆 Top-20 players at the end of the gameplay will be rewarded with AltLayer OG NFTs that come with several useful perks.

More details in the blogpost. Get ready to go dark!

https://blog.altlayer.io/launching-dark-forest-community-gaming-round-e243e116f3d5

As announced on August 23, our next showcase consists in hosting a game called Dark Forest on a game-dedicated execution layer. The goal with this event is to showcase AltLayer’s capabilities in hosting a large-scale blockchain game that runs all its core game logic on-chain.

The main event aka the community round will run from Sep 9-11 and the top-20 players in the leaderboard at the end of the gameplay will be awarded with OG Badge NFTs that come with several useful perks.

In order to prepare the community for the main event, we are organising a warm-up session from August 26, 2022 (12:00 GMT) - September 5, 2022 (12:00 GMT).

🎮 Check out the blogpost to learn more on how to participate in the warm-up game.

https://blog.altlayer.io/dark-forest-warm-up-round-begins-1d604e38021b

Dark Forest warm-up game has turned into a real deal with over 25k transactions already sent to the game-dedicated execution layer. 🔥

You can keep practicing your strategies until Sep 5.

Game 🔗 https://darkforest.altlayer.io/
Game Tutorial 🔗 https://blog.altlayer.io/dark-forest-warm-up-round-begins-1d604e38021b

🎮 Here are the top-20 scorers at the moment. 👏

🕛Last 24 hrs to get on the whitelist for Dark Forest’s Community Round!

Hi Alters,

This is to remind you that whitelisting for Dark Forest’s community round ends in exactly 24 hours on 2 September, 12 PM GMT.

This is a crucial step to secure your place as a participant, and get your pre-funded account sorted before you play.

Round 1's top 20 winners are in line to earn OG #NFTs so don’t miss out!

GET ON THE WHITELIST NOW! https://gleam.io/o1mPK/altlayer-darkforest-whitelist

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Dark Forest is an on-chain MMO space-oriented game that makes use of zkSNARKs (a privacy-enhancing cryptographic primitive). Lots more coming up in this space. Follow all our updates on @alt_layer and @darkforest_eth