Alephium
Alephium is the first operational sharded L1 blockchain scaling and enhancing PoW & UTXO concepts.
What is Alephium?
Alephium offers a scalable blockchain improving on mature ideas from Bitcoin to deliver reliable, powerful and secure DeFi and apps capabilities. It leverages blockflow sharding for up to 10,000 TPS and a stateful UTXO model for secure, programmable DeFi and apps. It's eco-friendly, using only ⅛ of Bitcoin's energy, and introduces Alphred, a custom VM for better security and development. Alephium also features its own programming language, providing a user-friendly alternative to Solidity.
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Developer resources from Alchemy
Launch a memecoin on Arc Chain
Write and deploy a fixed-supply ERC-20 on Arc mainnet with Foundry and Alchemy RPC, paying gas in USDC, or hand the whole launch to a coding agent with the Alchemy CLI.
Launching support for account abstraction on Zora and Frax
We are excited to announce Account Abstraction support for Frax and Zora, two new layer 2 blockchains built on top of Optimism’s Superchain ecosystem.
How Goldsky kept transactions flowing with zero downtime
Goldsky migrated its Compose bundler and paymaster to Alchemy and built a provider abstraction layer that makes failover a single environment variable change—no code deploy, no downtime.
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