As the Astar Foundation, we are proud to unveil another milestone in our roadmap toward Supernova: the Astar Tech Stack. This marks a major stepping stone to fully deliver Astar 1.0. The Astar Tech Stack will offer enterprises and other organizations seamless ways to create their own blockchains and blockchain-based products. Leveraging established programming languages such as Rust, which was designed for high-performance, combined with security and code safety. The Astar Tech Stack has been utilized by renowned, and leading Japanese enterprises such as Sony’s Web3 Incubation Program, and Toyota who chose Astar as a base for their incubation program and first web3 hackathon.
Since our launch, Astar Network has become the go-to-market chain for developers in Japan with a vibrant community of developers worldwide. With the Tech Stack, we're further moving toward expanding Astar into enterprises all over the world. Leading this adoption is Startale Labs, a tech company, led by Astar Founder Sota Watanabe and the go-to implementation partner for enterprises building on Astar Network. Additionally, Startale Labs maintains and develops tooling, including the Astar Tech Stack and the ‘all-in-one’ WebAssembly stack, Swanky Suite.
Why Astar Tech Stack for enterprises?
Making the creation of custom chains simple
By relying on Astars' trusted and proven technology, enterprises can tap into web3 without having to dedicate significant resources to research and development. Instead, they can focus on how their core competencies will benefit their consumers and products in a new context. By expanding to web3, enterprises open up to new audiences and revenue streams.
The Astar Tech Stack leverages the energy-efficient Substrate framework, offering a green, low-energy protocol for sustainable enterprises.
To further reduce time to market, the Astar Tech Stack is designed in a way to offer solutions tailor-made to enterprises with different needs, supporting features such as:
- Seamless interactions between onchain & off-chain data points
- Compliance and AML support
- High security & code
- Permissioned and permissionless blockchains
- Advanced key management to enhance privacy
- Off-chain settlements to enhance transaction privacy
- Integration with cloud environments
- Customizable standards to fit any use case including cross-chain communication, and asset transfer
- Offering law and tax advisory services in a specific region
- Optimistic Rollups & ZK-Rollups
And many more. Reach out to our team to discuss your companies' needs and how Astar Tech Stack fits in.
Development by experienced web3 developers
The Astar Foundation is the entity behind the launch and driving the growth of the ecosystem. As such, we're highly skilled in building on and with Astar. When choosing the Astar Tech Stack, you'll be assigned a dedicated team of experienced developers who are supporting you in the creation of your blockchain solution.
Additionally, all testing, audits, and upgrades implemented on the Astar mainnet will be integrated by our team and reflect on your custom chain, drastically reducing the time you spend on maintenance.
Accessing Astar's Infrastructure and Tooling
Astar already has established an ecosystem of tools, node providers, and other services, including fiat on-and off-ramp as well as KYC providers. When working with our Tech Stack, enterprises benefit from access to our suite of infrastructure and tools, including integrations with Ethereum’s most trusted tooling.
Tapping into two powerful virtual machines
At the network level, the Astar Tech Stack combines the most popular computing environment with one of the most flexible development frameworks to power new use cases. Benefits for enterprise on the network level include:
1. EVM and interoperability: With Astar EVM, enterprises gain seamless compatibility with prevalent Layer-1 and Layer-2 chains. EVM remains the most popular environment for smart contracts and comes with a suite of advanced tools and infra. Additionally, Astar EVM removes the friction of high fees companies might encounter on other EVM chains.
2. Seamless Network Integration: Astar has established deep ties with other ecosystems on a community and network level. When using the Astar Tech Stack, companies will tap into established connections with web3 networks such as Polygon, Ethereum, and Polkadot.
3. Substrate Framework: By harnessing the customizable Substrate framework developed by Parity, Astar empowers adaptable development practices. Substrate is a modular development framework enabling devs to combine existing blocks of code into complex dApps.
Additionally, through XCM (Cross-Consensus Messaging) technology, Astar enables the transfer of data and tokens in a trustless manner across chains.
4. Native Polkadot Integration: Our deep integration with the Polkadot ecosystem also opens up connections with other parachains enabling enterprises to leverage their features to enhance privacy and liquidity. Leading companies like Energy Web and Deloitte have already recognized the benefits of Polkadots’ ecosystem of chains, and with Astar Tech, anyone can tap into it easily.
5. Multichain dApps: The cross-virtual machine, XVM, that is part of Astar enables communication of smart contracts across multiple chains, empowering multichain smart contracts. Using XVM, companies can build applications that don’t just live on one chain but natively trigger functions in other chains, therefore enabling innovative multichain use cases. Additionally, XVM powers smart contract interoperability between smart contracts built in different languages, creating opportunities to build seamlessly across EVM and WASM environments.
What’s possible with Astar Tech Stack?
While this list isn’t holistic, it provides examples of use cases we foresee being built with Astar Tech Stack:
- Creator economy meets enterprise: Businesses can leverage Astars tech to collaborate with renowned creators and set up automated revenue-sharing mechanisms and protocols to reward contributions fairly.
- Loyalty programs onchain: loyalty point schemes are a big business, yet so far, businesses haven’t tapped into the potential of involving their biggest fans in product development. By bringing loyalty programs onchain using Astar, enterprises can form not only deeper connections with their customers but also open ways for them to become valuable contributors to new products.
- Tokenization of financial products: Tokenizing existing financial securities makes them more widely available and enhances price discovery. Enterprises can use Astar Tech Stack to tokenize assets ranging from equity tokens to less tangible assets such as IP.
- Supply Chain Transparency: Enterprises can use Astar Tech to build their custom supply chain solution, which keeps an immutable record of each product’s history, and provides consumers access to that journey. This creates transparency and empowers consumers to make more informed decisions.
- Digital Ownership Management: A valuable asset like a membership for a luxury hotel or Country club could be managed by the Astar-Based Tech stack so that it realizes low cost and high utility via the interoperability and transparency.
Many more things can be built using Astar Tech Stack, from bespoke solutions for digital rights management to escrow services that facilitate the working relationship between freelancers and their clients.
With our tech, we are equipping enterprises with an accessible route to creating blockchains and dApps. In partnership with Astar, businesses can navigate the intricacies of the blockchain realm with confidence while relying on the knowledge and expertise of the leading chain in Japan.
What’s next?
While a lot of the focus with the current iteration of Astar Tech Stack has been on enabling enterprises to build their own solutions, the stack can be customized to fit further web3 native use cases, including scalability solutions such as Layer-2s.
With Astar Tech Stack, we’re committed to supporting the growth of web3 by enabling enterprise adoption. The ability to support millions of transactions at low cost is a necessity, and we’re looking forward to working towards it.
To learn more about how the Astar Tech Stack can power your business and discuss what is possible, reach out to Startale Labs, our leading implementation partner.
