AltLayer builds infrastructure and autonomous agents for interacting with on-chain systems. Our goal is to simplify how developers build intelligent applications on top of decentralized networks.

AltLayer is an open and decentralised protocol for rollups and agents. For agents, we bring together a suite of x402 and EIP 8004-related products services to providing the necessary building blocks for the agentic economy which includes discovery of agents, establishing their reputation, seamless agent-to-agent payments and more.

For rollups, we have built a new framework Restaked rollup which takes existing rollups (spun from any rollup stack such as OP Stack, Arbitrum Orbit, ZKStack, Polygon CDK, etc.) and provides them with enhanced security, decentralisation, interoperability and crypto-economic fast finality.

Restaked rollups combines the ease of spinning up rollups using rollup stacks such as OP Stack, Arbitrum Orbit, ZKStack by ZKSync, Polygon CDK and others with the power of EigenLayer's restaking mechanism to bootstrap network security and build a decentralised network.

Restaked rollups are essentially a set of three vertically integrated Actively Validated Services (AVSes) created on-demand for a given rollup that works with any underlying rollup stack. These AVSes in conjunction offer three key services to rollups in particular to app-specific rollups:

Verification of rollups' state correctness

Faster finality

Decentralised Sequencing

The above services are provided via three modular components called:

VITAL (AVS for decentralised verification of rollup’s state)

MACH (AVS for fast finality)

SQUAD (AVS for decentralised sequencing)

Built on top of this protocol, AltLayer offers a versatile, no-code Rollups-as-a-Service (RaaS) launchpad that allows not only developers but also those with little to no coding experience to spin up a customised rollup within 2 minutes with only a few simple clicks. The RaaS product is designed for a multi-chain and a multi-VM world and hence will have factory support for EVM as well as WASM. It also supports different rollup SDKs such as OP Stack, Arbitrum Orbit, Polygon zkEVM, ZKSync's ZKStack and Starkware, different shared sequencing services such as Espresso and Radius as well as different DA layers such as Celestia EigenLayer and Avail among many other modular services at different layers of the rollup stack.

In addition to this, a key innovation that AltLayer brings to the rollup design space is the idea of ephemeral rollups . With ephemeral rollups, a dApp developer expecting an increase in demand for his application could: 1) quickly spin up a fast and scalable application-tailored rollup secured by a Layer 1, 2) use the rollup for as long as needed, and then 3) dispose of the rollup by doing an “end-of-life” settlement on the Layer 1. Ephemeral rollups are a highly resource-optimised rollup that gives developers the best of an application-specific rollup and a general purpose Layer 1. Under the RaaS umbrella, AltLayer offers both ephemeral as well as persistent rollups.

AltLayer protocol can save considerable capital and years of development work for teams and encourage innovation and rapid experimentation while being fully open and permissionless.