Today we’re excited to announce that we have led the pre-seed investment round into @dill_xyz_, a paradigm-shifting Data Availability solution, along with a group of angels who will be instrumental in Dill's future growth, including founders from @tn_pendle (TN Lee), @LayerZero_Labs , Manta (@victorJi15), @Matr1x_io (@saku_web3), @Modular_Capital, @santiagoroel, and other strategic individuals.Three years ago, we started fundraising for #STEPN as a start-up project. Today, we have over 5.6 million registered users for STEPN. With the launch of STEPN GO, we aim to continue our legacy by encouraging another 50 million users to stay active every day.With such a growth mindset, we deeply understand that security, affordability, and scalability are core values cherished by projects built for good and long-term success.We are on the cusp of witnessing the Fat Protocol thesis materialize in two ways: through monolithic (or generalized) blockchains that enable interoperability and through application blockchains that leverage the advantages of a modular structure (where the settlement layer, data availability layer, and execution layer are separated). Monolithic blockchains, while ensuring the global state of on-chain activities, are cumbersome and inefficient for any large application to retrieve all the historical state data from the chain validators.Some may ask, what’s the point of putting everything on a blockchain for a game or a consumer app? With our experience running Gas Hero, we understand that the frictionless value transfer/swap that only a blockchain can enable is core to a social strategy game. Blockchains empower the exchange of intangible value in tangible and fungible forms among various consumers in the form of peer-to-peer trading. Given this, it’s not ideal to run all these processes on a monolithic blockchain. Our real experience operating our own consumer products allows us to deeply understand why high performance and instant finality are needed from a data availability layer.Dill presents a paradigm-shifting scalability solution: data and network sharding with a 64MB large blob size while leveraging the same technology stack as the Ethereum Go client to ensure high performance. Fast finality is guaranteed by its validity proof with aggregated KZG polynomial commitment. The low entry barrier of its light clients will allow permissionless participation in the network, and can directly incentivize consumers of Dill’s client application chains to participate in guaranteeing the application chain’s data sovereignty. When a chain can access and analyze all the valuable consumer behavior data sovereignly, a lot more analytics and targeted campaigns can be done properly.Most importantly, Dill will launch with live application clients from Day 1—applications with real traction and consumer data. As a builder dedicated to creating enjoyable products that leverage blockchain technology, FSL simply believes that the big wave of mass adoption and fat app building is yet to come. The real consumer product builders, the application chains, will choose the Data Availability layer that best fits their needs, not the other way around.There is a lot more we’d like to gradually reveal, but for now, please stay tuned. We’re extremely thrilled to be backing Dill and look forward to co-building the Dill ecosystem together with the other builders who participated in the round!Learn more here ⤵️https://t.co/SouyOZsqcF