Launching decentralized networks has traditionally been a fragmented and resource-intensive process, requiring months of effort and significant costs. Teams must configure validator sets, integrate tooling, ensure data availability, and establish cross-chain interoperability—all while balancing decentralization, scalability, and performance. These challenges often delay launches and force difficult trade-offs.
Tanssi overcomes these obstacles with a modular infrastructure protocol that streamlines network deployment and management.
Originally built to support appchains, Tanssi has evolved into a versatile framework for launching and managing decentralized networks—including application-specific blockchains, rollups, bridges, and more. With prebuilt templates, customizable tools, and Ethereum-backed shared security, Tanssi simplifies complex infrastructure, enabling developers to go live in minutes.
Accelerating Restaking Adoption with Tanssi and Symbiotic
What is Restaking?
Restaking leverages Ethereum’s existing validator pool to extend security to multiple networks, allowing validators to secure more than one protocol using the same staked assets. This approach improves capital efficiency while maintaining Ethereum’s robust decentralized security. By reallocating collateral from assets already staked on Ethereum, restaking enables new networks to access shared security without building standalone validator infrastructures.
Introducing Symbiotic
Symbiotic is a modular restaking protocol that extends Ethereum’s validator pool to support a wide range of assets, including WBTC, stablecoins, and blue-chip ERC-20 tokens. Unlike traditional liquid staking derivatives (LSDs) such as stETH or rETH, Symbiotic enables developers to design custom security models tailored to their network’s risk and reward requirements.
Symbiotic’s shared security model is particularly valuable for smaller or emerging networks, offering a secure foundation with minimal operational overhead. Its modular design allows developers to configure validator interactions, staking parameters, and performance requirements while maintaining decentralization and permissionless participation.
Simplifying and Accelerating Restaking Adoption
Restaking is an emerging technology with significant potential for enhancing decentralization and capital efficiency. However, adopting restaking presents challenges, such as validator onboarding, staking parameters, slashing mechanisms, reward distribution, and ongoing network maintenance. These processes are complex and time-intensive, often delaying launches.
Tanssi addresses these challenges with a modular infrastructure protocol that abstracts the complexities of restaking. By providing prebuilt tools and an intuitive framework for deploying Symbiotic-powered networks, Tanssi reduces time to market from months to minutes. This approach simplifies adoption for developers, enabling them to focus on network design and innovation rather than infrastructure management.
How Tanssi Architecture Enables Efficient Network Deployment
Tanssi equips Symbiotic restaking protocol developers to simplify deploying and managing secure decentralized networks. By combining modular infrastructure with shared security, Tanssi enables developers to accelerate network launches.
Three Key Components of Tanssi’s Architecture
Symbiotic Restaking Protocol: Enabling Shared Security for Tanssi
Symbiotic extends Ethereum’s validator pool to Tanssi, providing the shared security foundation for Tanssi-powered networks. By pooling restaked assets like ETH, WBTC, and stablecoins, Symbiotic ensures secure and decentralized validation without requiring standalone validator setups.
Symbiotic’s modular design integrates directly with Tanssi, enabling operator onboarding, staking configurations, and enforcement of slashing and reward mechanisms.
Tanssi Orchestration Chain: Coordinating Network Operations
The Tanssi Orchestration Chain acts as the core infrastructure layer, connecting decentralized networks to Symbiotic’s restaking protocol. It provides critical services that reduce operational complexity and accelerate network deployment, including:
Decentralized and Permissionless Sequencing | Tanssi provides a shared set of decentralized sequencers and validators, eliminating the need for developers to bootstrap block production or manage validator infrastructure. This system optimizes transaction ordering, enhances network stability, and simplifies operations. |
Operator Management | Tanssi automates tasks like operator onboarding, reward distribution, and enforcement of slashing rules, reducing developer overhead while maintaining consistent network performance. |
Rapid Deployment with Pre-Configured Templates | Developers can launch networks quickly using prebuilt templates for governance, consensus, and transaction processing, significantly reducing time-to-market. |
Decentralized Data Availability | Tanssi incentivizes nodes to store and retrieve data, ensuring tamper-resistant access and preserving full network histories for enhanced resilience. |
Customizable Substrate-Based Infrastructure | Tanssi allows developers to configure governance frameworks and transaction logic, enabling high-performance, tailored use cases. |
Integrated Cross-Chain Messaging | Using Substrate’s cross-chain communication capabilities, Tanssi enables seamless asset transfers and interactions across networks, improving interoperability and scalability. |
Standardized Middleware | Tanssi standardizes sequencing, rewards, and slashing policies, allowing networks to select vetted operators and vaults without managing individual configurations. |
Tanssi-Powered Networks: Interconnected, Customizable, and Secure
Tanssi-powered networks are decentralized services connected through Tanssi’s orchestration chain. These networks inherit Tanssi’s infrastructure, including shared security via Symbiotic, decentralized sequencing, and customizable governance, enabling developers to launch tailored networks without the complexity of standalone infrastructure.
The orchestration chain connects networks into an interoperable ecosystem, fostering collaboration and scalability across diverse projects and use cases.
Ecosystem Participants: Restakers, Operators, and Developers
To understand the seamless interaction between Tanssi, Symbiotic’s restaking protocol, and the decentralized networks it supports, it’s important to break down how each participant—restakers, operators, and developers—fits into the broader ecosystem.
Restakers: Providing Economic Security
Restakers form the security backbone by committing collateral through Symbiotic’s restaking protocol on Ethereum. Their role includes:
Restaking assets such as native tokens, ERC-20 tokens (e.g., ETH, stablecoins), and more via smart contracts.
Following predefined reward and slashing rules to ensure accountability and performance.
Pooling restaked assets to secure Tanssi-powered networks connected to the Tanssi Orchestration Chain.
Restakers earn rewards based on operator performance and their contributions to network security, ensuring an economically incentivized and secure foundation for all networks.
Operators: Securing and Validating Tanssi-Powered Networks
Operators play a critical role in validating and sequencing transactions across Tanssi-powered networks. To participate, operators must onboard through Symbiotic’s restaking protocol, where they commit collateral and adhere to predefined rules for slashing and rewards.
Tanssi employs a session-based model, assigning operators to specific networks for upcoming blocks. During each session, operators:
Validate transactions and maintain the integrity of their assigned networks.
Generate the data needed to synchronize the Tanssi Orchestration Chain with Ethereum.
Ensure decentralized security by coordinating activities within the shared validator pool.
Create blocks for the Tanssi Orchestration Chain itself, ensuring operational consistency and decentralized security.
Operators who fulfill their responsibilities correctly earn rewards distributed via Symbiotic’s protocol, alongside restakers who contribute collateral. This session-based design abstracts the complexity of managing individual network interactions, allowing Tanssi to act as a unified middleware that optimizes coordination, sequencing, and security across all connected networks.
Developers: Building Decentralized Networks
When developers launch a decentralized network using Tanssi, they benefit from integrated security provided by Symbiotic’s Ethereum-based restaking protocol. This allows networks to leverage Ethereum’s validator pool for shared security without the need to manage their own validator infrastructure.
Tanssi’s orchestration chain automates critical functions, including:
Organizing operators and handling transaction sequencing.
Distributing sequencers to Tanssi-powered networks, ensuring consistent transaction processing and decentralized block production.
Streamlining infrastructure tasks by abstracting operational complexity, enabling developers to avoid direct interaction with Ethereum-based restaking mechanics.
This streamlined infrastructure enables developers to focus entirely on building and innovating within their decentralized networks, with Tanssi managing security, infrastructure, and operational logistics in the background.
What’s Next for Tanssi
Tanssi is advancing across technology, community, and ecosystem development. Developers can already access the live testnet to launch appchains in minutes, with support expanding to all types of blockchains and Ethereum-backed security through Symbiotic. These developments are setting the stage for Tanssi’s mainnet launch later this year, bringing a fully decentralized and scalable infrastructure to life.
The Tanssi Foundation will also roll out initiatives to expand the ecosystem, including "Let’s Forkin’ Dance" Season 2, opportunities to contribute to the mainnet launch planned for early 2025, and programs designed to support developers and operators.
Tanssi continues to prioritize decentralization, permissionless infrastructure, and shared security, ensuring its growth aligns with the core principles of the ecosystem.
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