📢 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/

Happy Halloween from Ottie!🕷🕷

Spooked by Ottie, but stoked for #OhOttie!

Somethings comin...shhh
#happyhalloween #NFTs #crypto #blockchain #web3

Alt View Episode1 Recap: Yaoqi Jia chatted with Barnabe Monnot from the Ethereum Foundation. Find out what he had to say!

We kick off our Youtube show Alternative View or ‘Alt View’ this week! A no fuss, knowledge-focussed content channel for all things crypto, blockchain, L2s, scalability, Web3 and more, we will be hosting numerous industry leaders and researchers who are at the top of their game. 

For our pilot episode, we were honoured to have Barnabé Monnot from the Robust Incentives Group (RIG), Ethereum Foundation. His research expertise spans game theory, like large systems, crypto economics, and also decentralised systems. Here’s a quick summary on what he had to say on the subject of rollups, PBS, MEV, and the general state of L2s today.

▶️Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viJqYMi6DMo

📰Read: https://medium.com/@altlayer/pilot-recap-a6764d38cb80

“Oh Ottie!” NFT Collection Drop in December: Get Whitelisted today!

🟣Thrilled to share that we’ve created 2000 iterations of our beloved mascot Ottie soon, 1200 of which will be listed for purchase.
🟣Oh Ottie! has been conceptualised to showcase the power of our superior flashlayer,  which enables NFT minting in a gasless manner across EVM and non-EVM chains.
🟣Oh Ottie! NFTs can be minted using native assets bridged from Ethereum, BNB Chain & Polygon.
🟣Get an Ottie NFT and enjoy the numerous perks which will cover community engagement, events and social impact programmes!

Whitelist open from 8 November -  4 December: https://sograph.xyz/space/altlayer/campaign/yVFDYdj1ao

DETAILS on our medium page ⬇️
https://blog.altlayer.io/altlayer-to-drop-2000-delightful-mascot-iterations-as-part-of-an-oh-ottie-d9649bb910f4

📢LEADERSHIP UPDATE: Altlayer appoints blockchain veteran Amrit Kumar as COO

We are honoured and delighted to welcome blockchain veteran Amrit Kumar to the Altlayer family. As COO, he will drive forward our vision & our global operations strategy as we build rollups-as-a-service for the #Web3, #GameFi, Metaverse and NFT worlds. 

Previously, Kumar co-founded Zilliqa Research with Dr. Yaoqi Jia, who is CEO and Founder of AltLayer. At Zilliqa, Kumar took the roles of President and Chief Science Officer. He researched at the National University of Singapore and has a PhD in Computer Science from France’s National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (INRIA).

Amrit's expertise and leadership will elevate our game, and help Altlayer soar.
More below ⬇️
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/15/blockchain-company-altlayer-appoints-amrit-kumar-as-coo/

🟣Give us a follow on @alt_layer 
🟣Give Amrit a follow on @maqstik
🟣Give Yaoqi Jia a follow at @jiayaoqi

Patrick McCorry of Infura on Alt View ep 2!

As someone who has undertaken extensive research on scalability, Patrick spoke about three different resources critical to scalability namely: computation, storage and bandwidth.

He outlined the promise of rollups, and the current issues to consider within the landscape. The speaker and host also discuss whether or not application-specific rollouts are a promising solution for emerging dApps in Web3, and what’s needed to help it come to fruition as a product.

This informative talk is a must-listen for developers, those researching scalability, zk-Proofs, rollups, app-specific chains and sidechains.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO4PavkkAFg&feature=youtu.be

Follow us and our guest:
🔹Follow Yaoqi: https://twitter.com/jiayaoqi
🔹Follow Altlayer: https://twitter.com/alt_layer
🔹Follow Patrick McCorry: https://twitter.com/stonecoldpat0
🔹Discord: https://discord.gg/jKbnEKcd

Oh Ottie! NFT Collection all set to launch on 9 December

Everything you need to know:

🦦The avatars of our mascot are all set to make an appearance as part of the much-awaited Oh Ottie! NFT collection.

🦦The NFTs will be available for minting and purchase on 9 December 2022 on OpenSea. Details of the private and public minting schedule are available here: https://blog.altlayer.io/altlayer-to-drop-2000-delightful-mascot-iterations-as-part-of-an-oh-ottie-d9649bb910f4
You’ll be able to mint using tokens from Ethereum, Polygon and BNB Chain.

🦦Here’s a glimpse of what you can expect - Aren’t they delightful? Whitelisting is still open till 4 December, so you’ve still got a chance at being part of the private sale. https://sograph.xyz/space/altlayer/campaign/yVFDYdj1ao
Treat yourself this holiday season with an endearing new pal

Follow us to stay up-to-date on the collection, and more!

💜💜💜🦦🦦🦦🦦

Oh Ottie Whitelist Now Closed, Thanks for your participation

A big thank you to all who whitelisted for Oh Ottie... 35,000+ signups - we're over the moon! The whitelist is now closed. 🙏🔥

Haven't signed up but keen to get your hands on an NFT? We'll keep you posted on the status of the public sale on 9 December.