Ethereum (ETH) scalability infrastructure developer Polygon has announced the rollout of a general-purpose, scalable data availability solution called Avail.

According to a release issued on Mon, Polygon revealed that Avail volition function as a data available tool for execution layers like sidechains, standalone networks, and layer-two protocols.

One of the major hurdles for effective blockchain scaling is the data availability problem. Malicious actors tin circulate blocks to the network with incomplete information and other participants will be none the wiser.

To tackle this problem, the Polygon team stated that Avail utilizes erasure coding and polynomial delivery to combat information encoding fraud proofs past creating a ii-dimensional data availability layer.

Rather than creating their ain data availability protocols, execution layers tin can offload the role to the Avail layer with the latter acting as a secure data hosting site.

For standalone chains, interfacing with Polygon's Avail volition reportedly enable these networks to rely on the latter's validator security protocols. Thus, these chains volition be able to solve the data availability trouble without needing to run their own validator set.

For layer-two protocols, the announcement revealed that scaling solutions similar Validium can expand their scalability throughput by deploying Avail to secure the data availability role offline.

Commenting on Avail'south importance within the context of ongoing efforts to boost blockchain scalability, the announcement quoted Polygon co-founder Anurag Arjun as stating: "Avail is a central component of a new paradigm in which blockchains will work in the future."

"We believe off-chain scaling solutions and standalone chains will require a robust scalable information availability solution and we are excited to exist working on this problem," the Polygon co-founder added in the release.

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Polygon'south popularity continues to be a growing trend within the crypto and blockchain space with an expanding user base of operations that reportedly hosts one.iv million unique users. Popular decentralized finance staples similar Aave and SushiSwap take likewise established a presence on Polygon.

Cross-concatenation liquidity protocol Ren has also recently created a bridge to let users and projects to port their Ren-based wrapped tokens to the Polygon ecosystem. Back in May, the team released a software development kit to enable developers to create Ethereum-compatible standalone bondage every bit well as layer-two protocols.