AltLayer Teams Up with Astar Network & Eigenlayer to Bring Faster Finality to Soneium

The partnership aims to unveil fast finality on Soneium, an Optimism (OP) Stack-built L2 blockchain of Sony Block Solutions Labs.

Decentralized protocol for launch and enhancement of rollup's AltLayer, has announced its latest collaboration with Astar Network, a prominent blockchain platform, and EigenLayer, Ethereum’s security protocol for off-chain validation. The partnership aims to unveil fast finality on Soneium, an Optimism (OP) Stack-built L2 blockchain of Sony Block Solutions Labs. The AltLayer and Astar networks disclosed this joint feature in their respective X posts.

The fast finality is powered by AltLayer's MACH and AVS, setting a new benchmark for rollup performance.

Here's how it works: pic.twitter.com/VcZnbd2oXK

— AltLayer (@AltLayer) August 24, 2023

AltLayer’s integration with Astar Network and EigenLayer promises to decrease finality times to lower than 10 seconds on Soneium. Soneium presently uses the fraud-proof mechanism of Ethereum, which demands a delay of nearly fifteen minutes for L1 settlement. Hence, the latest development intends to provide a considerable rapidity in finality.

Although secure, the above-mentioned lag has been posing a huge bottleneck in the case of applications requiring reliable and rapid cross-chain operations. Use cases dealing with gaming, social platforms, and decentralized finance (DeFi) are specifically sensitive to this type of delay. This can hinder real-time interactions as well as heighten consumer friction.

Hence, to deal with the respective challenge, Astar Network has reportedly integrated with Modular Asynchronous Consensus Hybir technology of AltLayer. Its integration with the cutting-edge restaking infrastructure of EigenLayer, offers Fast Finality Layer, enabling Soneium to validate transfers in real-time.

The MACH solution of AltLayer provides a package of latest performance enhancements. They take into account real-time validation, decreased dependence on centrally-controlled sequences, and a success track across other prominent rollups. The respective capabilities enhance speed, security, and decentralization, expanding the possibilities for the L2 networks. Additionally, to offer improved security, the dual-token model will be utilized, including both $ASTR (the native token of Astart Network) and Ethereum ($ETH). As a result of this, validators will secure the network with the use of both these tokens. This will open exclusive staking opportunities.

Highlighting the move, Astar Network stated that it is rendering the token more accessible and liquid. It is also making Soneium a high-performance rollup for real-world applications.