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
