Lowering developer friction is key to scaling blockchain applications at scale

Avail founder and Polygon co-founder Anurag Arjun said in an exclusive interview on March 7 that building blockchain infrastructure that attracts developers is a large-scale expansion area. The key to blockchain applications. "Reducing developer friction is really important. If you look at the first mobile apps that were built when the initial infrastructure came out, those were very simple apps. We It took many years of experimentation to build something like Uber or Instagram."

Arjun added that it is built with developers in mind Centered scaling solutions such as Layer 2 aggregation are necessary to advance blockchain-based decentralized applications (DApps). He said:

According to a January 17 report from Electric Capital, the average number of monthly active developers will decrease by 24% in 2023 compared with 2022 , to 22,411. The company attributed the decline to a record number of new developers joining in 2022. The report states:

When asked about the future of blockchain scalability, Arjun said he expected to see hundreds of application-specific Aggregations, which will be unified under a user-friendly application layer, much like today's Web2 shopping experience that simplifies online purchases.

"When you click the buy button on [Amazon], it opens a payment page, but the user doesn't know all the complexity behind the process, ” said Arjun, adding that Web3 infrastructure needs to simplify the user experience to attract more mainstream users in a similar manner.

Arjun is also the co-founder of Avail, the Web3 data availability and consensus layer, which completed a round of funding led by Founders Fund and Dragonfly on February 26 $27 million in seed funding.

The funds will be used to support the development of the company's three core products (also known as the "Avail Trinity") to help accelerate the unification of Web3: Data Availability Layer , Nexus unified layer and converged security layer.