Astria has introduced the Astria Rollup-as-a-Service (RaaS) into its suite of services.

Astria's shared sequencing network facilitates the collaboration of multiple rollups on a single decentralised sequencer network.

This approach replaces centralised sequencers - which are the norm in many blockchains, with simple, permissionless entry points.

According to an Astria, the goal of introducing RaaS is to make the deployment of a rollup as effortless and permissionless as deploying a smart contract.

Same, but Different

Contrasting this with existing RaaS products, Astria claims that others often serve as centralized training platforms for developers.

Astria, however, seeks to eliminate such trade-offs, providing developers with a shared sequencer network that guarantees censorship resistance, rapid block confirmations, and atomic cross-rollup composability.

They say they want to do with all while preserving the autonomy of each rollup.

The process of deploying a rollup through Astria is quite simple and involves only three steps: logging in, specifying a name and network, and executing the deployment.

Astria Network

Just last week, Astria introduced the Astria EVM, or Ethereum Virtual Machine, positioning it as the central activity hub for the Celestia blockchain.

EVMs are crucials components in blockchain network, responsible for executing smart contracts and facilitating decentralised applications without the need of an off-chain oracle.

The goal is to stimulate the modular rollup ecosystem by making the EVM Celestia's activity nexus, also serving as a hub for bridged assets from Astria and external ecosystems.

The Astria EVM is currently operational on Dusknet-2, leveraging Celestia's Mocha testnet.

It is also integrated into Dora's multichain search engine, possibly enhancing onchain interactivity at the discoverability layer and potentially accelerating mass adoption.