This week, Offchain Labs, the team of initial core developers behind Arbitrum and Ethereum consensus client Prysm, announced the launch of Tandem. This first Offchain Labs partner studio will focus on assisting select projects in building blockchain applications.
Tandem seeks to nurture partnerships with innovative applications building on-chain, leveraging Offchain Labs’ market positioning to drive significant growth across emerging technologies and strengthen the next wave of industry-altering projects.
With Tandem, the Offchain Labs are establishing a dedicated service to offer resources to accelerate teams focused on solving the next significant challenges in blockchain technology. Tandem will support teams building innovative solutions for critical parts of blockchain infrastructure, utilizing Arbitrum Nitro’s execution environment, including those addressing sequencing, data availability, RaaS, or scaled deployment infrastructure.
“At Offchain Labs, we are dedicated to fostering innovation and supporting the growth of the overall blockchain space,” Offchain Labs’ co-founder and CEO Steven Goldfeder said. “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 projects will have a point person serving as the project’s primary stakeholder. The point person will work with the team to build and execute a comprehensive development and launch strategy and provide technical support. Offchain Labs will also facilitate introductions to partner teams across the ecosystem or other parties in verticals where it already has existing relationships and offer supportive marketing services to assist the teams in spreading awareness of the project.
Over the past year, Offchain Labs has supported and partnered with various projects that have seen great success within the ecosystem and on their own, ranging from app chain products like Xai to broader infrastructure startups like Espresso Systems.
Tandem becomes Offchain Labs’ latest foray in the blockchain innovation space, having already ushered the initial development of Arbitrum, a Layer 2 solution, and Prysm, a consensus client used for running Ethereum validators and participating in the proof-of-stake network, and core contributions to the Ethereum L1 by researching and implementing various Ethereum improvement proposals (EIPs) and protocols.
