Celo takes First Step towards Ethereum Integration with launch of Dango Layer 2 Testnet
Celo, the web3 and mobile-first Layer 1 protocol, has announced the launch of the Dango Layer 2 testnet.
The successful launch of Celo's Layer-2 testnet, Dango, is an important milestone in the efforts of core contributor cLabs to bring the EVM-compatible standalone blockchain to Ethereum, the Celo Foundation stated in a post on Medium.
📣 Breaking #CEL2 News: the Dango Layer 2 testnet is now live! 🍡
— Celo 🦇 🌳 (@Celo) July 7, 2024
Ahead of EthCC 2024, @cLabs successfully launched the fork of Alfajores testnet, inviting developers to start testing the updated code
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With today's launch, all of Alfajores' past data—including smart contracts, accounts, and balances—is kept and carried over. The OP Stack, an open-source, modular blueprint for highly scalable and interoperable blockchains that powers Optimism's Superchain, is the foundation upon which the testnet is built. This was recommended by cLabs and approved by the community through a series of forum posts and governance votes.
EigenDA is an alternate data availability layer used by the Celo Layer-2 testnet to maintain sub-cent transaction fees. This is in response to the Eigen Foundation's strategic grant to the Celo community and the community's endorsement of cLabs' subsequent governance proposal.
The primary goal of the Layer-2 architecture's development was to preserve the advantages of Celo's L1, which is used in more than 150 countries for practical solutions. Bridging tokens between Ethereum and Celo will be easier, even though users of Celo can still use native USDT and USDC stablecoins to cover gas expenses on the new network, according to Celo's announcement. With a 50% increase in throughput and a block time reduction from 5 to 2 seconds, transactions will also be faster.
The successful launch of Dango enables infrastructure providers to begin updating Layer-2 node code. Developers will be able to test their end-user dApps, and Alfajores will be upgraded (without requiring a new fork) once all major infrastructure providers have updated to support the L2 design.
The cLabs team anticipates that the ongoing migration work will culminate in the launch of the Celo Layer-2 mainnet in early winter 2024, according to the announcement.
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