TLDR: Eclipse Foundation is excited to announce that Eclipse Mainnet is open for builders! In the weeks ahead, we invite builders to deploy on Eclipse Mainnet and participate in our hackathon, the Total Eclipse Challenge.

Eclipse is the first SVM L2 on Ethereum, combining the best of Solana’s speed with Ethereum’s liquidity. We chose to build on Ethereum so that builders can build where users and assets are while being able to prioritize scale and UX with the most performant battle-tested execution environment in crypto, the Solana Virtual Machine. That’s why we have been so bullish about building Solana on Ethereum. With that, we’re excited to announce Eclipse Mainnet is open for builders.

Our goal during this phase is to ensure that builders can:

• Deploy seamlessly: Builders should begin deploying their dapps to Eclipse easily and securely.
• Get fast technical support: The Eclipse team will provide hands-on support in the #developers channel via Discord to dapp teams.
• Become part of the Eclipse ecosystem: Builders should meet other builders, get to know the ecosystem, help each other out, and build positive sum relationships.

You can get started building by visiting our documentation:

• RPC Access. Builders can access an RPC of choice for Eclipse Mainnet in our documentation.
• Bridging ETH. During this phase, there will be no publicly available bridge UI. Builders can bridge ETH to Eclipse through a CLI with instructions here. NOTE: Do not send any asset other than ETH to the canonical bridge contract on Ethereum Mainnet.

Inviting all Builders

As part of Eclipse Mainnet for developers, we are thrilled to announce the Total Eclipse Challenge, an inaugural hackathon taking place from August 7th to August 21st. 

The Total Eclipse Challenge will be a virtual, two-week-long global hackathon, inviting innovators to explore their newest dapp ideas with nearly $50K in global prizes for winners. The hackathon will feature five unique tracks, DeFi, Gaming, Consumer, Memecoins, and Infrastructure. We’ll also host various talks and workshops, along with a world-class roster of judges and mentors. 

Register here for the hackathon and visit the website to learn more.

Preparing for the Next Stage of Mainnet

Eclipse plans to be the most performant L2 on Ethereum. Eclipse’s Mainnet for Developers is full of training wheels. It has a centralized bridge and no functioning fraud proofs, withdrawals, or forced inclusion. Users must trust the Eclipse relay operator, the roll-up multi-sig re: upgradeability, and the sequencer for liveness and safety. Eclipse Foundation will address these problems as it builds Etherem’s first SVM L2. Our initial goal is to transition to a Stage 1 roll-up as fast as possible with forced inclusion, permissionless fraud proofs, and a trust-minimized bridge. 

The next rollout stage of mainnet will be opening it up to the public. Before we do that, we will at a bare minimum enable withdrawals. 

Upon public mainnet launch:

• Deploy your dapp’s front end on Eclipse
• Share with your community on Discord/Twitter (tag @ EclipseFND)

Parting Thoughts

Eclipse Foundation is deeply committed to shipping a functioning, secure, decentralized, and fast public mainnet. We plan to put full focus and priority on detaching from the training wheels mentioned above and transitioning as fast but securely as possible to a Stage 1, then a Stage 2 rollup.

While we work towards that end goal, we are incredibly excited to welcome you to join the future of onchain innovation at Eclipse.  

Eclipse Everything.

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