Odaily Planet Daily News The modular blockchain Astria announced the launch of the Astria development cluster, which aims to make deploying Rollup as easy as deploying smart contracts.
The development cluster consists of a local Astria shared collator network, a local Celestia network, an EVM rollup equipped with faucet and block explorer, and the glue service that connects them together, other rollups can be deployed to this with a simple command in the development cluster.
According to previous news in April, Astria completed a seed round of financing of US$5.5 million, led by Maven 11, and participated by 1kx, Delphi Ventures and Figment Capital. The financing was used to develop its shared sequencer network.
Astria is also developing its Astria EVM, which is powered by a network of shared orderers and is planned to serve as the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) for the Celestia data availability layer for the modular blockchain.