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— Alchemy | Powering Web3⚡️ (@AlchemyPlatform) May 1, 2024
Specifically, on Alchemy developers can access advanced APIs, custom RPCs, Supernode, Alchemy Signer for embedded accounts, and much more, all within a single dashboard.
By doing so, industry professionals are encouraged to build new blockchain applications, being able to rely on a suite of tools to scale and distribute such products efficiently across the web.
One of the unlocked features closest to the non-developer world is definitely that of custom RPC, which allows you to use zkSync zkrollup through an endpoint different from the one offered by MetaMask, often overcrowded with requests.
By creating a private API key (and going to the command line), users can use Ethereum’s scalable secondary networkby sending transactions through a secondary endpoint.
Alternatively, you can go through Chainlist for the same purpose.
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Soon on Alchemy new features will be unlocked at home zkSync like now the Sepolia Faucet, a developer education program a “collab merch” dedicated to chain operators.
Just one step away from the launch of the ZKS crypto and the supposed airdrop that will be dedicated to chain users, zkSync opens the doors to a new era of development for its ecosystem.
Based on zkSync with Alchemy, developers will be able to rely on a reliable, scalable, and accurate web3 infrastructure, ensuring a seamless development experience.
Former zkSync developer creates his own hyperchain Sophon: public sale of nodes announced
Another crypto news from the zkSync ecosystem, concerns the departure of the developer “0xsebastiena” from the Ethereum zkrollup team, in order to launch his own personal project.
This is Sophon, an entertainment platform that presents itself as a modular rollup that leverages zkSync’s Hyperchain technology and the ZK stack as the operating framework.
Basically, it acts as a layer-2 rollup that operates in validium mode, meaning it does not store transaction data on the main Ethereum network (thus it is cost-effective to use), designed to be customized for any high-performance application.
Its main fields of application are gaming, NFT ticketing , artificial intelligence for consumer and other entertainment sectors
0xsebastiena presented the project to its audience on April 15, announcing in parallel two partnerships with Beam Network and Aethir Cloud.
The project has recently raised $10 million in VC funding through a round led by Paper Ventures and Maven11.
Some personal news:
I will be leaving @zksync at the end of April.
I\'ve been working on starting my own project.
Allow me to introduce @sophon
Sophon is a general purpose hyperchain, focused on ██████ and ██████, using ██████ as DA, leading us all towards a…
— seb ∎ (@0xsebastiena) April 15, 2024
Just 15 days after the introduction of Sophon, a high hand grenade was dropped, starting the public sale of infrastructure nodes.
Anyone can decide to purchase a node, or better a token ERC-721 that gives the right to run the node itself (or delegate it) on Sophon.
The choice of public sale was made because the founder of the project has a great interest in the crypto world and can afford this option in order to decentralize their network as much as possible.
During this phase, you will be able to purchase a node at the price set by the reference tier: when the allocation of nodes for that specific tier ends, we move on to the next slot with a higher price, of course: first come, first served.
The node operators will obviously receive the commissions from the Sopshon network as well as an incentive directly in the next governance token $SOPH (20% of the total supply) that will be issued in the first 36 months after the mainnet launch.
More than 18,500 ETH have already been collected in this public fundraiser.
18,500 ETH raised so far!
Today the @sophon public node sale starts. /74Gh5Tvwmc
— Ericonomic (@ericonomic) April 30, 2024