SKALE Network & What it does

The SKALE Network is an open-source on-demand Web3 cloud platform designed to scale Ethereum dApps. The Network enables dApp developers to access validator-operated nodes' compute power to run fast, containerized, EVM-compatible SKALE Chains. Validators run and maintain SKALE Nodes, providing distributed computing power to the Network. The entire SKALE Network is managed by SKALE Manager, a dApp deployed on Ethereum Mainnet. Network users such as validators, delegators, and dApp Developers SKALE (SKL) tokens to stake and access network services.

The SKALE validator community represents over 45 independent operators running over 150 nodes, and the SKALE Mainnet has been live for over 120 days. Checkout the current stats.

With SKALE, dApps run gas-less transactions on a Proof-of-Stake chain distributed across 16 nodes, each running containerized EVM. SKALE chains can exchange transactions or messages with other SKALE Chains and Ethereum networks, allowing dApp developers to use SKALE for powering their dApps while enabling token transfers to and from Ethereum or other chains.

SKALE Network uses a unique combination of several technologies to achieve scalability, security, interoperability, and progressive decentralization:

Technology	Impact
Pooled Validation Proof-of-Stake	Scalable security model across validators and delegators
Hybrid container architecture	Agile allocation of on-demand composable compute resources across the network
Threshold Cryptography	Supermajority signature signing with ABBA consensus supports Byzantine Fault Tolerance and resolves data-availability issues
Trusted-Execution Environment	Fast block signing and multiple chain support using threshold cryptography
Asynchronous Binary Byzantine Agreement (ABBA) Consensus	Mathematically provable, fast-finality, leaderless, and Byzantine fault tolerant
Ethereum Network	Public, open-source, and decentralized operation of the SKALE Network via SKALE Manager contracts

Tools & Compatibility

SKALE Network is designed to work with all Ethereum compatible tools such as API-based wallets and monitoring and analytics.

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Get Access

If you don’t have a SKALE Chain yet, you can get started with:

Still not sure how to get started? Then head over to the Beginner’s guide or reach out to the SKALE Network developer community on Discord.

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