Offchain Labs, a prominent cryptocurrency venture finance firm, intends to accelerate blockchain adoption and development with Tandem.
The ecosystem footprint of the Offchain Labs development team includes fundamental contributions to the creation of Prysm, an Ethereum and Arbitrum consensus client.
The team’s most recent endeavor, Tandem, aims to support blockchain innovation. Offchain Labs and Espresso Systems—the platform that powers the Espresso Sequencer—joined forces in September 2023 to assist Ethereum rollups and developers in achieving interoperability.
What does Tandem bring to the market?
With this new endeavor, the group presents Tandem as a partner studio that will grant access to Offchain Labs’ resources and market presence to a limited number of companies to develop and introduce on-chain applications.
Tandem’s dedicated service will use the execution layer of Arbitrum Nitro, leveraging capabilities like rollup-as-a-service (RaaS) for scalable customization and data availability.
RaaS aids in infrastructure scaling for improved network operations and settlement in projects. Steven Goldfeder, co-founder, and CEO of Offchain Labs, commented on Tandem’s goals as follows:
“By providing resources and mentorship, we aim to empower developers and entrepreneurs to bring their visionary ideas to life, driving the next wave of decentralized applications and transformative technologies. We are excited to see the groundbreaking projects that will emerge from this initiative.”
Tandem-advantaged projects will have a committed partner who will serve as the project’s “point person,” working on it from conception to implementation. Projects will also gain from collaborations that Tandem facilitates.