Metaplex Foundation Launches Metaplex Aura: A Decentralized Indexing and Data Availability Network for Solana and SVM

The Metaplex Foundation has officially released Metaplex Aura, a decentralized indexing and data availability network designed for Solana and SVM). The Metaplex Program Library (MPL) provides trusted on-chain programs and smart contracts to help users create, manage, and sell digital assets. Based on the native token MPLX, the Metaplex protocol has been used to manage and create more than 500 million assets.

Currently, Dapps face challenges in competing against centralized alternatives because the process of reading and displaying blockchain state data is expensive and slow. Aura complements SVM and MPL by leveraging the decentralized Aura node network to efficiently index asset data and provide real-time data availability for compressed states, all secured by the MPLX token.

What is the Aura Network?

Aura is a decentralized indexing and data availability network that provides efficient digital asset data indexing, helping applications easily read blockchain states without relying on centralized infrastructure. This innovation is the next evolution of the Metaplex DAS API, which currently provides open source indexing technology for Solana.

The three core features of the Aura network include:

· Data Availability for Digital Assets:Developers and users can ensure that their digital assets and media content are always accessible through a decentralized data storage and retrieval system, even in a compressed state, without relying on centralized services.

· Multi-Program Consistent Indexing:Aura enhances the Digital Asset Standard (DAS) API to provide efficient indexing services for protocols across Solana and SVM.

· Elastic State Management:Aura allows developers to flexibly convert assets between SVM account space and different state compression layers, improving application performance and scalability.

Decentralized elastic data access

Whether you are a developer building a new application or a creator managing your own collection, Aura's performance allows users to quickly and securely obtain asset data at any time without relying on a single point of failure. Aura is fully integrated into the Metaplex developer platform, ensuring that users always have access to application and digital asset status data.

Aura also supports elastic state management, allowing assets to be flexibly converted between SVM account spaces and different state compression layers. It unlocks many new features, such as batch processing of mint transactions, reducing transaction costs by more than 99%. These innovations help developers optimize application performance and reduce operating costs.

Strategic Expansion of Metaplex

The launch of the Aura network marks that Metaplex is expanding its services to provide an end-to-end solution to enhance the convenience of application development on Solana and SVM. Aura provides developers with a complete technology stack to help them build efficient and resilient applications in a decentralized environment.

Ryan Watkins, co-founder of Syncracy Capital, said on his personal social media that Aura Network has greatly expanded the market opportunities of Metaplex and consolidated it as the infrastructure of Solana's on-chain economy.

Aura has been supported by more than 25 top projects in the Solana ecosystem, which have provided valuable product feedback for Aura's early network implementation. The participation of these communities has helped improve the network and will continue to play an important role in future development processes.

Provide open source support for the developer community

In order to promote developer collaboration on a global scale, the Metaplex Foundation has open-sourced Aura's code and repository, so that the global developer community can participate in the development of the Aura network and benefit from it. This community-driven development approach makes the Aura network more open and inclusive, helping to promote the development of the entire decentralized ecosystem.

The Aura network is now live on the Solana mainnet and testnet, and developers can access it through a public gateway that will be directly integrated into the Metaplex developer platform. Developers can use the existing Bubblegum and DAS API SDKs, and a new unified Aura SDK will be launched soon.

About the Metaplex Foundation

The Metaplex Foundation is a non-profit organization based in the Cayman Islands dedicated to supporting the development and growth of the Metaplex protocol. The Metaplex protocol has been used to create and manage more than 500 million digital assets, helping developers and creators around the world to easily manage their digital assets.

With Metaplex Aura, Metaplex has taken another big step forward to promote the innovation and development of decentralized applications in the Solana and SVM ecosystems.

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