![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/22e2a08c2509be4fe6bb4e33b1975407.png)
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
![highlight](/api/highlight?text=Layer%20N%20team%20AMA%205%2F9%2F2024&author=NFT%20Matrix&url=%40nftmatrix&avatarUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fstorage.googleapis.com%2Fpapyrus_images%2F8c6aa97ff863f86804a709a22eb3238f.jpg&featuredImageUrl=&size=512)
![NFT Matrix logo](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstorage.googleapis.com%2Fpapyrus_images%2F8c6aa97ff863f86804a709a22eb3238f.jpg&w=384&q=75)