Binance has officially unveiled its 45th Launchpad project—AltLayer (ALT)—introducing a new opportunity for users to mine ALT tokens using BNB and FDUSD. Starting January 19, 2025, at 08:00 (UTC+8), participants can stake their BNB or FDUSD on the Binance Launchpad platform to earn ALT rewards over a six-day mining period. The token will officially go live on January 25, 2025, at 18:00 (UTC+8), with trading pairs including ALT/BTC, ALT/USDT, ALT/BNB, ALT/FDUSD, and ALT/TRY.
This launch marks a significant milestone for AltLayer, a cutting-edge modular blockchain infrastructure project focused on scalable and secure rollup solutions.
What Is AltLayer?
AltLayer is a decentralized, flexible Rollups-as-a-Service (RaaS) protocol designed to empower developers with fast, customizable rollup deployment. At the core of its architecture is the Beacon Layer, a no-code dashboard that enables developers to launch rollups with either fraud proofs or zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs—regardless of the underlying stack, such as OP Stack, Arbitrum Orbit, Polygon CDK, or ZK Stack.
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What sets AltLayer apart is its integration of restaked rollups, leveraging EigenLayer’s restaking mechanism to enhance security, decentralization, and economic robustness. By allowing validators to restake Ethereum-based assets, AltLayer strengthens trust assumptions while enabling faster finality and greater interoperability across chains.
Key Innovations: VITAL, MACH, and SQUAD
AltLayer’s restaked rollup framework is built around three core products:
- VITAL: An Active Validation Service (AVS) where operators verify blocks and state commitments submitted by rollup sequencers. If discrepancies are detected, they can submit fraud proofs to challenge invalid transactions.
- MACH: A protocol that boosts transaction finality by enabling operators to restake ETH-backed assets, supporting instant confirmation of rollup state claims.
- SQUAD: A decentralized sequencing solution backed by economic incentives. It eliminates centralization risks like MEV (Maximal Extractable Value), censorship, and single-point failures associated with centralized sequencers.
Together, these components form a resilient, developer-friendly ecosystem that supports high-performance decentralized applications.
Strategic Ecosystem Partnerships
AltLayer’s modular and plug-and-play design has attracted a diverse range of high-profile partners across gaming, DeFi, RWA tokenization, and middleware infrastructure.
Gaming & Web3 Innovation
- Cometh: A French game studio building Cosmik Battle, a new Web3 game featuring biometric wallets and an NFT marketplace powered by AltLayer’s customizable rollup technology.
- Double Jump Tokyo: A Japanese blockchain game developer behind major IPs like Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Through its exclusive partnership with AltLayer, developers can now deploy apps on Oasys—a gaming-specific rollup stack—using AltLayer’s infrastructure.
DeFi & Derivatives
- Deri Protocol: A decentralized derivatives trading platform that uses NFT-based positions and AMM mechanics. Deri has launched an application-specific rollup with AltLayer to improve scalability and reduce latency for traders.
- Injective: A decentralized exchange blockchain known for its orderbook-based trading model. Injective leverages AltLayer’s modular restaked rollup framework to enhance performance and cross-chain composability.
Middleware & Infrastructure
- Automata: A blockchain middleware provider backed by Binance Labs and Jump Crypto. Automata uses AltLayer’s rollups to scale its on-chain proof system for off-protocol computations in its upcoming Automata 2.0 upgrade.
- RISC Zero: A zero-knowledge virtual machine (zkVM) developer collaborating with AltLayer to build ZK Fault Proofs, a novel mechanism combining ZK cryptography with optimistic rollup security models.
Real-World Asset Tokenization
- ALLO Protocol: Focused on tokenizing real-world assets (RWAs), ALLO has partnered with AltLayer to develop an RWA-dedicated rollup. This integration aims to bring compliant asset management on-chain, backed by over $1 billion in managed funds through its Allocations platform.
Identity & Social Infrastructure
- Avive: A geo-social protocol introducing “sovereign footprint”—a concept emphasizing individual ownership of digital identity and personal data. Avive integrates AltLayer to ensure scalable and private data handling.
Tokenomics of ALT
ALT is the native utility token of the AltLayer network, serving multiple critical functions:
- Economic Bonding: Validators must bond ALT alongside restaked assets. Malicious behavior results in slashing.
- Governance: ALT holders can vote on protocol upgrades and parameter changes.
- Incentives: Operators and contributors are rewarded in ALT for securing the network.
- Transaction Fees: Users pay fees in ALT when interacting with services on the network.
The total supply of ALT is capped at 10 billion tokens. At launch, the circulating supply will be 1.1 billion (11%) of the total.
Token Distribution Breakdown
- Ecosystem & Community: 15%
- Team: 15%
- Investors: 18.5%
- Advisors: 5%
- Treasury: 21.5%
- Future Protocol Development: 20%
- Binance Launchpool: 5%
AltLayer raised $22.8 million through two private sales, selling portions of the token supply at $0.008 and $0.018 per ALT respectively.
Airdrop recipients include holders of:
- AltLayer OG Badge NFT
- Oh Ottie! NFT
- Participants in the Altitude campaign
- Qualified EigenLayer restakers
- Celestia stakers
The snapshot for airdrop eligibility was completed on January 17, 2025, at Ethereum block height 19,022,890.
Funding and Founding Background
AltLayer was founded by Yaoqi Jia, former CTO of Zilliqa. In July 2022, the project secured $7.2 million in seed funding led by Polychain Capital, Jump Crypto, and Breyer Capital. Notable individual investors include:
- Gavin Wood (Polkadot founder)
- Balaji Srinivasan (ex-Coinbase CTO, former a16z partner)
- Sean Neville (Circle co-founder)
- Kain Warwick and Jordan Momtazi (Synthetix founders)
In addition to institutional backing, AltLayer won third place in BNB Chain’s 2022 European Innovation Incubator program and received strategic investment from Binance Labs in August 2023—underscoring its long-term alignment with the Binance ecosystem.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Q: How can I participate in the Binance Launchpad mining for ALT?
A: From January 19, 2025, users can stake BNB or FDUSD via the Binance Launchpad page. Rewards are distributed proportionally based on staking amounts over the six-day period.
Q: What is the purpose of restaking in AltLayer?
A: Restaking allows validators to reuse their staked ETH or liquid staking tokens (like stETH) to secure AltLayer’s rollups via EigenLayer, enhancing economic security without requiring new capital.
Q: Why are rollups important for blockchain scalability?
A: Rollups process transactions off-chain while posting data on-chain, drastically reducing congestion and fees. AltLayer makes deploying them faster and more secure through automation and restaking.
Q: Can developers use any rollup stack with AltLayer?
A: Yes. AltLayer supports multiple stacks including OP Stack, Arbitrum Orbit, Polygon CDK, and ZK Stack—making it one of the most interoperable RaaS platforms available.
Q: Is there a public testnet or developer documentation?
A: Yes. AltLayer offers comprehensive SDKs and APIs for developers. Visit the official site for technical guides and sandbox environments.
Q: When will ALT be listed on other exchanges besides Binance?
A: While no official announcements have been made yet, post-launch liquidity expansion is expected as adoption grows across DeFi and CeFi platforms.
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