Last week we did a podcast about how SOON and Anza teams collaborated to expand the SVM ecosystem and how we can give back to the community.

So here is a quick background story about how we at @soon_svm got the chance to work with the @anza_xyz team which is a dev lab spun up from the solana labs 

Anza team and the engineers in their team are world-class, working on validator like the Agave client, which is the most used validator client of Solana.

SOON team is working closely with them to build the decoupled SVM and our upcoming horizontal scaling approach. What makes this collaboration particularly powerful is Anza's well-designed API.

When we started building the decoupled SVM, we wanted to build it in a way that it should work with any layer 1 and any kind of consensus mechanism, starting with the derivation pipeline that we have built, and having the Anza team review our implementation and helping and guiding our engineering team along the way was a big help. 

We decoupled the SVM and removed everything from voting transactions and the DA wastage, and we are using Anza's Solana API, which makes it possible to build the execution engine using the Agave client.

Our engineers have successfully pulled off the decoupled SVM, and we made it possible to use SVM with the OP stack, Eigen DA, and Ethereum, having a modular system where components are independent of each other and work independently. You need to make sure that friction is less and the whole system works as one. Huge thanks to the Anza team for reviewing the codebase and helping us bring the decoupled SVM to life!

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