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**2022** - Chia needs an application and NFT persistence layer - Chia DataLayer could be that layer - Chia DataLayer needs an incentive layer **Early 2023** - To build an incentive layer, Chia DataLayer needs an infrastructure base - DIG Network will be that infrastructure base **2023 - 2024** - Building out the DIG Network infrastructure base **Late 2025** - The infrastructure base needs to be anchored to Chia, and this requires state - Singleton concurrency limits this at scale - DIG needs to roll up state onto Chia - Trustless state rollup needs its own consensus - A separate block set makes sense to help with this - Now there's a clunky L2 that rolls up DIG state - DIG could have written state to Chia directly but it would require far too many state updates **Late 2025 into Early 2026** - The L2 works, but the real realization is that DIG just needs cheap TPS on Chia - The L2 needs a block format - It would be great to support CLVM and the coinset model - Turns out, it can - Now there's a near-working Chia-parity sidechain with faster TPS and L1 hard finality, where any puzzle on Chia should work on the sidechain too - Given the compatibility, how hard would it be to build bridging directly into consensus? - Turns out, that might actually work - DIG, XCH.B, and cXCH.B are close to working on this L2 - This is great infrastructure for DIG, with the ability to support DataLayer directly in the full node **Now** - Getting close to a high TPS sidechain with native DataLayer support. This could actually be a true application layer for Chia.