EigenDA Provides Data Availability Solution for Arbitrum Orbit Toolkit

Following a partnership announcement on the morning of February 3, projects using the Arbitrum Orbit toolkit will soon benefit from EigenDA's Data Availability service.

EigenDA announced this collaboration on its official X account on the evening of February 2.

With the integration of EigenDA's Data Availability mechanism, transaction data on Layer-2 will be sent to a management contract from EigenDA on Layer-1, instead of the current calldata mechanism. This data will be restructured into blobs to save storage space and send these "certificates" to Layer-2 for further verification on Layer-1.

This approach will help Layer-2 (specifically Rollups) reduce verification costs and increase transaction processing capabilities by over 50 times.

At the time of writing, the integration of EigenDA with the Arbitrum Orbit toolkit is still being tested on the Sepolia testnet.

EigenDA also mentioned that the current version does not include Fraud Proofs and may require multiple updates in the future to incorporate this verification mechanism.

Additionally, infrastructure from AltLayer is supporting the integration process to make it more seamless.

In December 2023, EigenLayer announced a partnership with AltLayer (a provider of Rollup-as-a-Service) to develop the Restaked Rollup mechanism, addressing current limitations such as Sequencer decentralization, MEV, and Finality speed.

Previously, EigenLayer also announced the integration of the EigenDA solution into the OP Stack toolkit (another counterpart of Arbitrum Orbit).