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Dan Mills

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Dan Mills

@thunder

Product at @AvailProject. Previously: @0xPolygon @square @tinkerkitch @creativecommons @mozilla. Not an NBA team.

Mountain View, CA

Joined April 2007

Dan Mills
@thunder
Apr 18, 2022
Web3 concepts can be very abstract. To share Avail with the community, we thought hard about the right metaphor to capture what makes Avail unique and exciting. We came up with the idea of the evolution of old school audio storage media 🧵[1/7] bit.ly/Polygon-Avail
Dan Mills
@thunder
Apr 6, 2022
Earlier this year I made the jump to Web3 at @0xPolygon, and this is what I've been working on. Super excited for what's next!
Polygon | POL
@0xPolygon
Apr 6, 2022
#Polygon is building a modular suite of scaling solutions to empower chains and dApps of any size. And today, we’re sharing our vision for @0xPolygonAvail, a new data availability blockchain that improves scalability across the board. Learn more 👉 bit.ly/Polygon-Avail
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Dan Mills
@thunder
Oct 1, 2019
SO excited to see Tinker Kitchen on CNN's Great Big Story. Thanks to the amazing TK community!! <3 you all youtube.com/watch?v=sR6rO1…
Dan Mills
@thunder
Apr 18, 2022
Replying to @thunder
I’m thrilled to have joined the incredibly talented @0xPolygonAvail team and to be making this technology a reality [7/7]
Dan Mills
@thunder
Jul 28, 2023
We’ve launched an SDK for creating: - Sovereign - Optimistic - EVM-Compatible Rollups on top of Avail. What does that mean? Read on!
Rethinking Rollups with OpEVM: An Open-Source SDK to Build Optimistic Rollups
From blog.availproject.org
Dan Mills
@thunder
Apr 18, 2022
Replying to @thunder
Note that, like all analogies, this one is imperfect. For one, Avail is not a data or file storage solution at all! Instead, it records transactions from any other blockchain and proves the data is available so that we can scale blockchains in a secure and decentralized way [6/7]
Dan Mills
@thunder
Jun 20, 2023
Our new website and brand is live! Excited to have a fresh new look as an independent project. Check it out!
Avail
@AvailProject
Jun 20, 2023
Allow us to reintroduce ourselves! 📢 We’re Avail, the essential base layer for modern blockchains. Check out our new website (with our new look 👀) and join us as we reshape the future of blockchain development, making it accessible to all developers. availproject.org
Dan Mills
@thunder
Apr 18, 2022
Replying to @thunder
I grew up with cassette tapes and vinyl LPs. Those formats had ecosystems of devices that tightly coupled the physical encoding to a specific use—to encode something meant to be interpreted differently, and you’d need a whole new ecosystem of devices [2/7]
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Dan Mills
@thunder
Aug 2, 2018
Tinker Kitchen, the project that I've been pouring my life into for the past 3 years, just went live on Kickstarter this morning. Check it out! And please share it on Facebook/Twitter, it makes a huuuge difference!
Tinker Kitchen
From kickstarter.com
Dan Mills
@thunder
Apr 18, 2022
Replying to @thunder
With Avail, we are instead building a consensus layer that is execution-agnostic. This enables it to be used in a modular way as a consensus and data availability layer for any kind of chain [4/7]
Dan Mills
@thunder
Feb 7, 2012
BrowserID is even better now with ID provider support. Read more & check out the video: identity.mozilla.com/post/172077347…
Dan Mills
@thunder
Apr 18, 2022
Replying to @thunder
Similarly, monolithic (or “eager”) blockchains tightly couple the consensus process that yields agreement on the sequence of blocks with a specific execution environment and interpretation of those transactions. Up until now, most public chains work this way [3/7]
Dan Mills
@thunder
Apr 18, 2022
Replying to @thunder
It’s similar to how a hard drive allows for different uses—a hard drive can store audio like an LP, or photos like film, but the interpretation that it is audio or a photo happens at a higher layer. And that means it can be used for all kinds of things! [5/7]
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Dan Mills
@thunder
Jun 8, 2023
Excited to be launching our new Kate testnet today, our first major release since becoming independent from Polygon earlier this year
Avail
@AvailProject
Jun 8, 2023
We are thrilled to announce the official launch of Avail's Kate Testnet! This major milestone brings us one step closer to the mainnet release. Check out our blog to learn about it! blog.availproject.org/kate-testnet/