Time flies when you’re building an essential data solution for blockchains and dApps! It’s already been one year sinceKYVElaunched mainnet, and in this short time, it has provided Data Rollups-As-A-Service (DRaaS) to seven leading Cosmos chains, become one of the most active modular L1s, led 20+ ecosystem collaborations, and much more.
Let’s catch you up on KYVE’s transformative official first year of safeguarding Web3’s history…
On-Chain Highlights: A Successful Launch & Beyond
KYVE went liveon March 14th at 14:03:14 UTC (Pi Day down to the T), successfully launching with 14 genesis validators and filling all 100 chain node slots within the first day. Not long after, the protocol layer launched, bringing forward the first official mainnet integrations and 60+ active protocol validators. Overall, mainnet launch gained major support across the Cosmos Ecosystem and beyond.
Now, one year to date, KYVE has surpassed 34M+ transactions (now reaching over 200k tx average per day), with a total of 3.9TB of data archived onto Arweave, and $50M total value locked.
In support of KYVE’s network participants and data users in general, KYVE has released new tooling since its mainnet launch to further enhance the user experiences. Starting withKSYNC, which enables node operators to sync with any historical block, state, or height of a KYVE-supported blockchain, speeding up the sync process and reducing their resources and reliance on centralized data sources.
Supervysorwas also released, ensuring KYVE protocol validators’ nodes are in sync with the network’s data pool, eliminating any data that’s already been archived to lower storage needs. On top of this, many new features, integrations, and displays were added to theweb app.
KYVE’s chain node network has also scored 72 in terms of decentralization onObservatory Zone’s dashboard, with the aim to increase this to as close to 100% as possible later this year.
Follow KYVE’s progress on the following explorers and dashboards:
Partnerships & Integrations: Expanding The KYVE Ecosystem
Since launch, KYVE is thrilled to be archiving and validating the historical data ofCosmos Hub,Osmosis,Archway,Axelar,Cronos,Noble, andCelestia. All of these integrations sparked from collaborations with their teams in need of a reliable, streamlined historical management solution, which they found in KYVE.
Other ecosystem collaborations since launch:
Mainnet being live also means that the historical data KYVE makes trustless can be leveraged as a reliable data source for hackathons and bounties. So far, two unique solutions have come up from KYVE hackathons:Crypto QueriesandVBase.
Regarding in-progress developments, ZetaChain and dYdX data pools are live on KYVE’s testnet Kaon. On devnet, KYVE is experimenting with Celestia blobs and historical data from XION, Polygon, Arbitrum, and Optimism.
Community Highlight: 170k+ KYVE-ers Across The Globe
KYVE’s international community has grown to over 170K+ and 90 ambassadors. Plus, six months after launching mainnet, KYVE released a specialBeta Testers Programfollowing rapid new ecosystem development and tooling. The program got over 800 applications within the first twenty-four hours. With only 40 slots available, they were filled immediately!
Thanks to KYVE’s passionate community, the project has also achieved other major milestones, such as becoming one of the top most active Cosmos chains, winning Hackernoon’s Frankfurt startup of the year (thanks to your votes!), growing an active governance forum with over 53 discussions, and reaching almost four thousand students on KYVE’s Academy.
KYVE as also reached the end of itsIncentivized TestnetReward distribution, with the last batch officially being released yesterday (March 12th). Mission Korellia was a major part of KYVE’s journey to mainnet, all 43k+ unique users that took part will always be appreciated for their efforts and support.
Shoutout To A Few Standout KYVE-ers:
New to KYVE? Listen in to our latest X Spaces to get caught up:
KYVE’s last Community Call & 2023 Review
KYVE x Syntropy on WAGMI Podcast: Cosmos’ Data Needs Met
KYVE’s interview with OpenDataDAO
Next Up: Expanding KYVE’s Solution To All
KYVE’s first year live has proven its solution a key player in blockchain and dApp scalability, supporting leading chains in the Interchain and starting its expansion into the Ethereum ecosystem. With its ease of customizability and the growing need for decentralized historical data management, there’s no stopping KYVE from becoming the reliable historical data source for all Web3 ecosystems.
Read intoKYVE’s visionfor 2024 and beyond, andjoin KYVEin its journey toward making Web3 historical data a trustless public good.
More About KYVE
KYVE provides data rollups-as-a-service (DRaaS), streamlining reliable historical data storage, validation, and accessibility to ensure your blockchains and rollups have unmatched scalability and seamless integration with a modular stack. KYVE handles the data, you innovate the future.
KYVE is backed by blockchains and foundations such as Arweave, Ava Labs, Solana Foundation, Interchain Foundation, Moonbeam, TheGraph, Parity Technologies, Composable Finance, Zilliqa, Mina Foundation, Aurora, and NEAR Foundation.
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Written by Margaux Stancil, Head of Marketing at KYVE.