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