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

Final reminder: Whitelisting for
Darkforest community round ends in 1 hour!🕛

Don't waste another minute. Complete the details to qualify as a participant. #NFT rewards in store for community round winners 🔜

https://gleam.io/o1mPK/altlayer-darkforest-whitelist

▪️Whitelist Period for Dark Forest has ended ▪️

To the 2700+ who got themselves on the whitelist - awesome move!

On Sep 8, those who have completed the Gleam tasks will receive details of their pre-funded account. Mark your calendars & get set to play!🎮

#gaming #NFTs

⏳The @darkforest_eth warm-up rounds ends today at 12:00 PM GMT.

There's still time to get a hang of the ropes before the community round - Last chance! Get #gaming 🎮

https://darkforest.altlayer.io/

DARK FOREST WARM UP ROUND COMES TO A CLOSE!

....and that's a wrap on the warm-up round for Dark Forest. Let's look at the numbers!

🟣Players: 235
🟣Total txns: 51000+
🟣Avg. block time: 2 secs
🟣Txns by most active player: 3369

Top Scores:
🥇1,008,157,744
🥈213,100,000
🥉186,900,080

Community-round: 🔜

⭐️Events Lineup ⭐️

This fall, Altlayer's going global!🌐✈️

🇩🇪@ETHBerlin I 16-18 Sep
🇺🇸@MessariCrypto #Mainnet2022 I 21-23 Sep
🇸🇬@token2049 I 27 Sep
🇨🇴@EFDevcon I 11-14 Oct
🇵🇹@ETHLisbon I 28-30 Oct

Hackathons, Dev Workshops & Panels on the menu...Going to be in the area? Come by, say hello!👋

The Community Round for DarkForest has kicked off. Can’t wait to see how well the players do!

Remember, some truly awesome OG #NFT badges await the winners. If you’re whitelisted, show us what you got in the next 48 hrs. Time starts NOW!

https://blog.altlayer.io/dark-forests-community-round-kicks-off-today-c9174f8934

Dark Forest’s Community Round Concludes, Top 20 Selected

🟣The community round welcomed 300+ players, around 100 of whom were able to strategise, stay the course and gather up great scores.

🟣The highest scorer recorded 747,777,777. The highest number of transactions from a single player was 15,324 while the total game transactions over the two-day period was 189,723

🟣Game-layer alone seamlessly handles over 94K txns per day; txns equivalent to over 90% of daily txns on Optimism and over 60% of daily txns on Arbitrum.

🟣This use case illustrates the benefits of our scalable flash layer solution and our game- dedicated execution layer - not to mention its tremendous promise for the blockchain-gaming industry.

We'll keep you posted on everything we're working on. Give us a follow.

More:
https://blog.altlayer.io/dark-forests-community-round-concludes-top-20-selected-c3772e4cd4e2

Introducing OTTIE, our new mascot, to the AltLayer family.

Ottie, whose name is a playful variation of Alters - our growing, global community - is a force of nature, very bright and engaging!

Say hello🦦

Altlayer’s public testnet/devnet now LIVE.

Calling all developers! The alpha devnet can now be used to get a glimpse of how our Flash Layering technology works. Here's what you can do via https://devnet.altlayer.io/

⭐️Deploy and call Solidity contracts like you normally would on Ethereum or other EVM-compatible chains
⭐️Use the bridging solution, which allows assets to be transferred to and from other EVM-compatible chains

We’ve also integrated our first add-on: the 1RPC powered by @ Automata Network. This feature protects #Web3 user privacy when accessing RPC (Remote procedure call) endpoints, so that user metadata (IP address, device, wallet info) stays safe.

Try it out and give us your feedback on https://discord.gg/altlayer

Announcement!📢

Leading decentralised ‘support-to-earn’ platform Fobo club will be collaborating with us on future #NFT drops!  Excited to see our tailored rollups enabling smooth #minting for a series of exciting drops in their pipeline.
Check the below for more information on our new ecosystem partner 🔥

https://www.fobo.club/