Nautilus Chain is one of the few real Layer3 modular chains in the industry. The chain launched a test network a few months ago and accepted user test interactions. The chain is currently in the test network stage and will soon be launched on the main network. This will also be the first officially launched modular blockchain bottom layer in the industry.

Last month, the Nautilus Chain testnet reached a milestone. The actual TPS in the testnet phase was about 2000. The Nautilus Layer3 Carnival X Galxe OAT Minted event attracted nearly 200,000 community members to participate. The number of registered and interactive addresses participating in the testnet incentive activities exceeded 696,000, and more than 44,000,000 on-chain transactions were generated. During the testnet phase, Nautilus Chain established strategic partnerships with more than 80 ecosystems, including Celestia, MultiChain, Eclipse, Poly Network and Galxe. It also launched a $20 million ecosystem fund in cooperation with Zebec Labs. Poseiswap and Coral Finance received the first two investments from the fund respectively.

Nautilus Chain opens a new chapter in modular blockchain

In 2022, Celestia proposed the concept of modular blockchain, that is, the blockchain should be divided into 4 parts, Execution, Settlement, Consensus and DA. Among them, Execution and DA are the most worthy of attention. These two parts undertake the business of the top layer (execution) and the bottom layer (archive transactions). Celestia specializes in the infrastructure of "data availability (DA)". As a modular protocol, it only handles data availability (DA). Other execution and settlement work can be locked in the DA layer. Developers can directly choose the execution environment to be used to build DApp on Celestia. Based on Celestia, some emerging underlying chains will no longer need to rely too much on other Layer1s such as Ethereum on DA.

Modularity is expected to be the key to solving the blockchain trilemma and will bring a secure, scalable and decentralized multi-chain future. Celestia's modular architecture is deconstructing blockchain into data, consensus, and execution, and empowering developers with limited budgets to easily deploy their own blockchains with a streamlined and modular consensus layer.

Celestia provides different solutions for modular expansion, including sovereign Rollup, settlement Rollup, etc. Therefore, Celestia can enable emerging chains to have more autonomy, efficient execution environment, scalability, lower-limit governance, and lower deployment thresholds in the form of modular chains.

Currently, Nautilus Chain is the first sovereign modular Layer3 chain built on Celestia. With the launch of the chain mainnet, Celestia's modular vision is being realized.

Nautilus Chain, based on the Layer3 concept proposed by Vitalik, has also built a new Layer3 concept. It does not believe that Layer3 should patch Layer2 or even Layer1. Layer3 should be a system that can support customization at any time without reinventing the wheel and is not overly dependent on other Layer2 facilities. With the support of infrastructure such as Celestia and Eclipse, Nautilus Chain is achieving this goal through modularization and layering.

At present, Nautilus Chain is the industry's first parallelized and fastest EVM Rollup Layer3 expansion solution. As the first modular chain, storage, computing, consensus, etc. are all in different modules. It has higher scalability and expansion capabilities, further improving network throughput, security, and privacy.

To facilitate modular design, Nautilus Chain also uses Eclipse for modular integration design. Eclipse is a Rollup solution where developers can customize various components according to their preferences, such as execution environments such as EVM, SVM, and MoveVM, as well as data availability layers such as Celestia, Polygon AvailEigenDA, etc.

Unlike other Rollups with fixed components (such as virtual machines and base layers), developers can use Eclipse to easily create various forms of Rollups. For example, you can choose Polygon Avail as the consensus layer and data availability layer, and use SVM as the execution layer. Eclipse provides the "Eclipse Settlement Layer" as the settlement layer (including IBC), and Rollups built with Eclipse can seamlessly connect with the Cosmos ecosystem. Based on Eclipse, developers can customize the selection of virtual machines. For example, it can easily access virtual machines with various features, including EVM, RUST, Move, and Wasm virtual machines, which also provides a basis for the customized development language of Nautilus Chain. As an EVM-compatible Nautilus Chain, it is also expected to further introduce EIP-696 in the next few iterations to help developers generate further revenue.

In the early days when modularization and Layer3 have not yet been determined and defined, Nautilus Chain is undoubtedly the most illustrative representative of these two fields and is expected to become an early definer. As the Layer1 war comes to an end, the competition in the public chain track is "sinking" towards Layer2 and Layer3, and the strong competitiveness of the Nautilus Chain system with independent sovereignty is becoming more prominent.

Hackathon and Global Tour

Nautilus Chain is strengthening its leadership in the Layer3 and modular fields. The team is planning to continue to hold a series of modular blockchain technology sharing sessions in major cities in Asia, with the aim of promoting blockchain technology, especially the future of modular blockchain.

Through these activities, it hopes to enhance the public's understanding of blockchain technology and promote the development of blockchain technology in Asia. At the same time, the sharing session will be carried out in the form of pure technology ecology sharing and popularization with the purpose of enhancing cognition. At the same time, well-known project audits, investment research, capital and technology communities will be specifically invited to participate, and in-depth discussions will be conducted on topics such as the development trend, challenges and opportunities of modular blockchains, and potential business opportunities. It is reported that this series of activities is planned to be held in major Asian cities such as Tokyo, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, Mumbai, and Bangalore. At present, the sharing sessions in Tokyo, Shenzhen, and Shanghai have been successfully held, and the next stop will be Singapore.

While hosting the global tour, Nautilus Chain also co-hosted hackathon events with partners such as Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, Zebec Protocol, Rootz Lab, etc. to help more high-quality developers participate in the development of the Web3 world, promote the innovation and application of on-chain facilities, and promote the development of Layer3 technology.

Currently, the hackathon event is also actively accepting registration