The Spanning Network demo site is now live: demo.spanning.network
The Spanning Labs team is excited to publicly open the Spanning Network testnet for development. Now, engineers and hackers can build directly on our test Network to deploy multichain applications. Our developer documentation and NPM package are accessible and up to date with the latest network functionality.
With the Spanning Network, developers can seamlessly deploy their applications on the best chain for their use case and access users all across the web — without their users having to take extra steps.
The network unlocks the possibility for multichain dapp infrastructure.
What does this mean? In the same way that Web2 applications today use Stripe for payments, Elasticsearch for search, and MongoDB for user data, we believe future applications will use different blockchains to serve different functions. And the Spanning Network helps to make this a reality.
What included in the Spanning Network testnet?
The testnet displays all current functionality available to developers in our Network. This functionality includes:
- Spanning multichain access to users on three testnets: Rinkeby (Ethereum), Mumbai (Polygon), and Fuji (Avalanche) — with more coming soon!
- Spanning multichain contract deployment on Avalanche — with more coming soon!
- Spanning standards for ERC20, ERC721, ERC1155, Ownable + Access Control contracts
- Common ERC contract extension types for access to additional functionality such as mintable, burnable, pausable, upgradeable, etc.
- Customization to support both local and multichain users — multichain users have their own unique Spanning Address
The Demo App
Within the Spanning Labs Demo App, you can see two core implementations of the Spanning Network — multichain ERC20 contracts and multichain ERC721 contracts. The Demo App highlights:
- Crosschain transfers of tokens and NFTs in less than 5 seconds without 3rd party custody
- Minting assets logged in from any chain available in the network, the JadeNFT project shows ownership from users across all available chains
- Introduction of the Spanning addresses, which enables ownership transfer instead of asset transfer
- Connection to Spanning delegates, the endpoints of the spanning network
The Spanning team is working internally, with our partners, and with our community to build more demo applications that showcase the benefits of the Spanning Network. Additionally, we will be open sourcing our demo app within 2 weeks.
The Security Model
The core of the network security model lies in the fact that Spanning Labs never custodies any assets on behalf of customers or users. There is no “honey pot” of assets maintained by Spanning Labs that would be a vector for attack.
In the Network, the asset always stays on the originating chain, inheriting the security of the chain chosen. On the user’s end, they chose their authentication model out of those available in the network. A more detailed article on our security infrastructure will be shared in the coming weeks.
Developers — we’re here for you!
We’ve built the Network functionality for you. We want to build infrastructure and tooling to make it as easy as possible to deploy, monitor, and maintain multichain applications. By prioritizing this, your entire team (or project/DAO/company) will benefit.
You can access our testnet documentation in the links below. Take a read-through, ask us questions, test, and add your app integration into the Spanning Network testnet.
Developer Documentation: docs.spanning.network
NPM Package Download: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@spanning/contracts
What’s Next?
First and foremost, we’re looking to expand the functionality of the network. This means adding more testnets to the network and adding more deployable networks (Ethereum, etc.) in the coming weeks.
An incentive program for our developer network is being launched within the Spanning Labs Discord. Join now to participate in strengthening the network!
And finally — We’re looking for more partners as we shore up the system towards our mainnet launch. We’re looking for developers to test, give feedback, and pilot us towards what we can do to best support your multichain team.
Interested in partnering with Spanning Labs in the future to make your team or project multichain? Fill out our partnership form here.