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Dan Mills
@thunder
Product at @AvailProject. Previously: @0xPolygon @square @tinkerkitch @creativecommons @mozilla. Not an NBA team.
Mountain View, CA
sandmill.org
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    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
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    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!
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    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
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    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]
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    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
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    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]
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    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!
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    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
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    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
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    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]
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    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…
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    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]
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    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
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    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/
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