The Avail Stack promises to transform the approach to creating custom blockchains, providing developers with solutions to improve flexibility and scalability in blockchain development.
Why Build an Appchain?
Teams generally choose to build a custom appchain for a variety of reasons, including:
**Customization:** Appchains offer immense customizability, allowing developers to alter core aspects of their chain, such as the gas fee mechanism, key infrastructure, or even the smart contract programming language. This level of flexibility is not typically available on general-purpose blockchains, which impose the same guidelines on all applications.
**Scalability:** Appchains can reduce congestion, lower transaction costs, and enhance scalability by operating independently. This is particularly beneficial for applications requiring high throughput like games, consumer applications or large scale enterprise use cases.
**Cost Efficiency:** Operating on a shared blockchain often means higher gas fees, especially during periods of network congestion. Appchains can reduce these costs by providing a dedicated environment where projects can fine-tune performance and integrate custom features without external bottlenecks.
**Specialized Use Cases:** Appchains are optimized for specific use cases, such as gaming, where high-speed interactions and low latency are crucial.
The Fragmentation Dilemma
However, there is an obvious challenge that comes from this approach; every new chain forms another island in an increasingly fragmented landscape.
For a new blockchain to connect with the surrounding ecosystem, it requires a manual and expensive integration. It’s not like you can just do a single connection and be done; each connection is largely independent of one another.
This reality makes the benefits of creating a standalone blockchain less appealing, as the costs and complexities of integration start stacking up.
The Avail Solution
The Avail Stack provides appchain developers with both - a stack for building custom appchains and connections to applications, users and liquidity across multiple networks.
An example is Sophon, which built a purpose-built blockchain optimized for scale on Avail. It has near-instant transactions, predictable fees, and can now connect with other blockchain ecosystems, ensuring a seamless experience for users.
The Avail Stack opens new opportunities for developers, allowing them to create highly efficient specialized blockchains without fear of fragmentation and creating isolated liquidity.
