Hassan Maishera
On Tuesday, the Avalanche Foundation announced via X that Skymapper is building an Avalanche L1 to verify telescope space observations on-chain for intelligence communities worldwide to access.
SkyMapper already has buy-in from leaders in space and airspace monitoring. The SETI Institute, a leading scientific org focused on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, is contributing live observational data to SkyMapper.
By anchoring telescope data on Avalanche and storing it on Akave’s decentralized, encrypted infrastructure, SkyMapper enables a system in which observations can be independently verified.
For the first time, a global telescope network is operating on decentralized infrastructure where each observation can be verified beyond the system that produced it, marking one of the first production-scale integrations of scientific research into a decentralized verification network.
At the center of the network is what SkyMapper calls Proof of Space Observation (POSO). Each observation is signed at the source, time-stamped, and recorded onchain, creating a record that can be checked independently.
Avalanche is an open-source platform for launching Decentralized Finance (DeFi) applications and enterprise blockchain deployments in an interoperable, highly scalable ecosystem. Avalanche is a layer one blockchain that functions as a platform for decentralized applications and custom blockchain networks. It is one of Ethereum’s rivals, aiming to unseat Ethereum as the most popular blockchain for smart contracts. It aims to do so by having a higher transaction output of up to 6,500 transactions per second while not compromising scalability.
This is made possible by Avalanche’s unique architecture. The Avalanche network consists of three individual blockchains: the X-Chain, C-Chain, and P-Chain. Each chain has a distinct purpose, which is radically different from the approach Bitcoin and Ethereum use, namely, having all nodes validate all transactions. Avalanche blockchains even use different consensus mechanisms based on their use cases.
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