According to Odaily, Taiko has announced significant progress in optimizing its protocol since the mainnet launch. The team has successfully reduced L1 gas costs by over 30% while maintaining contract upgradability. As they continue to refine gas optimization strategies, the focus is now shifting to new features and improvements. Key development areas identified include enhancing L2 EIP-1559, introducing transaction preconfirmation, implementing new transaction types such as Sponsored Transactions, supporting Cancun EVM, enabling contract use of calldata as DA, and improving minimum tier selection. Additionally, the Ontake upgrade will incorporate these features and improvements, with testing on the Hekla testnet planned before October and a mainnet upgrade scheduled for Q4 this year.

According to BlockBeats, on July 23, modular blockchain project Avail announced the launch of its Avail DA mainnet and the introduction of the AVAIL token. Avail DA is a modular blockchain solution designed to optimize data availability (DA), enabling highly scalable and customizable rollups. The AVAIL token will serve as the native asset of the Avail network, used for paying DA fees and ensuring network security through staking. Additionally, AVAIL holders will have the opportunity to stake their tokens.