What is AltLayer?

A vast majority of applications today need a transient scaling solution at specific times during their product lifecycle. For example, an NFT project needs a scaling solution only when it is organizing an NFT mint event. Other applications need specific support for gaming or special cryptographic primitives. To this end, there is a need for disposable application-dedicated execution layers that are on-demand, elastic, highly resource optimized, and easy to set up.

AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from the underlying blockchain. AltLayer equips both EVM (e.g., Ethereum) and non-EVM chains (e.g., Polkadot) with an on-demand execution layer that can handle surges in transaction processing requests. This allows for a better overall user experience while also minimizing fees and avoiding congestion on layer 1 chains.