A Year of Impact: KYVE’s First Mainnet Anniversary, Pioneering Data Rollups-As-A-Service For Ultimate Scalability
Time flies when you’re building an essential data solution for blockchains and dApps! It’s already been one year since KYVE launched 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 live on 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.
“We’re thrilled to see KYVE officially launch mainnet, bringing forward yet another innovative solution, built on Cosmos SDK, for enhancing today’s developer experience. With KYVE, free and easy access to trustless data is now possible.” — Chris Zhong, Technical Director, Interchain Foundation.
“Congratulations to KYVE on their mainnet launch, which will make access to reliable decentralized data across Web3 easier for all. NEAR’s focus on ease of use for developers and users with the Blockchain Operating System relies on accessing data from various blockchains, which KYVE provides.” — Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder, NEAR Protocol.
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 with KSYNC, 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.
Supervysor was 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ensuring KYVE protocol validators’ nodes are in sync with the network’s data pool, eliminating any data that’s already been archived to lower storage needs.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 the web app.
KYVE’s chain node network has also scored 72 in terms of decentralization on Observatory 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 of Cosmos Hub, Osmosis, Archway, Axelar, Cronos, Noble, and Celestia. 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:
- Syntropy and KYVE partnered to bring forward a full-coverage data solution for the interchain;
- Log Store Network by Usher Labs leveraged KYVE as its data validation layer for alphanet;
- Streamr integrated live streams of trustless historical data from KYVE;
- An infrastructure partnership was assembled between KYVE, Spheron, and Akash to help reduce the infrastructure costs for node operators;
- Lava Network also brought forward a collaboration with KYVE to enhance the node operator experience;
- Commonwealth provided the KYVE DAO with a streamlined governance forum for discussion and brainstorming;
- Keplr, Leap Cosmos, XDEFI, and Cosmotation for web app wallet support;
- ViewBlock, Mintscan, Map of Zones, and Keplr Dashboard for deep insights into the network;
- LearnWeb3 and KYVE partnered for the launch of their mini-courses, along with their first major online hackathon;
- Observatory Zone works closely on KYVE’s chain network to analyze its decentralization;
- Kapa.ai was integrated into the KYVE docs and web app, bringing AI into the KYVE user experience;
- RocketFuel’s development team contributed heavily to the ecosystem, specifically with KYVE’s Data Pipeline tool;
- Babylon Integrating KYVE to gain further security via Bitcoin.
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 Queries and VBase.
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 special Beta Testers Program following 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 its Incentivized Testnet Reward 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:
- Liver23 has contributed heavily to KYVE’s protocol advancements, providing testing support for upcoming developments and tooling, such as for supervysor v2
- Galadrin is a great asset to the KYVE community, constantly sharing their learnings and findings, and contributing to KYVE’s governance forum and the overall advancement of KYVE.
- Sergei F. is on KYVE’s Telegram and Discord channels every day, engaging with and helping out community members and providing valuable feedback for KYVE.
- Kolot has been a great resource for our validator community, helping others and providing feedback on how KYVE can help the network’s nodes optimize their setups and further secure the network.
- Gsandly has supported KYVE & the community across multiple channels, including Twitter, & also translates a lot of KYVE content into Chinese to help reach Chinese communities, even creating a WeChat group for KYVE!
“Can you have an archival node for each project supported by KYVE? Osmosis alone takes terabytes of data. Here’s the thing: You don’t need data that has already been saved. This is where supervysor comes in, you only need to set how many future blocks you want and how often to prune the old data, and the tool takes care of everything else. Thanks to the KYVE team’s consideration for their validators. Keep up the good work!” — Liver23, KYVE protocol validator, on KYVE’s protocol validator tool supervysor.
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
“As blockchains finally scale through modular approach, it becomes extremely important to verify the validity of the stored data. KYVE Network is uniquely positioned to solve that and have been executing relentlessly on that vision in the past 3 years. We’re more than excited to see their efforts come to fruition and proud to be their early supporters.” — Gökhan ER, Managing Director at IOSG Ventures
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 into KYVE’s vision for 2024 and beyond, and join KYVE in 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.
