Ethereum’s Automation Protocol — Gelato Network launches on Mainnet!
From Alpha to audited v1
From gelato.finance to gelato.network
In February 2020 Gelato published its Alpha release. The alpha hid away most of what Gelato actually is meant to be behind a Web Interface, which meanwhile has been deprecated. This early phase showcased how Gelato can be leveraged to equip end-users with their own IFTTT-like Ethereum bots that can execute arbitrary actions on their behalf, in just one or two transactions, without them needing to write a single line of code. For many users, this opened the door to a new kind of decentralized app usage — an automated, yet fully non-custodial one. However, underneath this simple UI a new smart contract protocol was hiding that now has been audited and deployed onto Ethereum Mainnet.
Enter Ethereum’s automation protocol: Gelato Network
Gelato Network is not a Web Interface anymore. It is an audited smart contract protocol that lives on Ethereum Mainnet and can be used by developers to automate the execution of their users’ transactions, without having to run any of the underlying server infrastructure themselves. Gelato’s design goal is to incentivize an open and decentralized network of relayers to automate your smart contract executions and make them censorship-resistant.
“Gelato is a tool for developers to automate smart contract execution on Ethereum.”
Gelato is permissionless and available for all developers, who are seeking to automate any kind of Ethereum usage, and who do not want to reinvent the wheel. All you need to know is Javascript or Solidity or both, depending on what you want to build or customize, and you are good to go!
To get started as a developer, check out the Gelato Demo Tutorial and the core Github repository. Proper developer documentation for Gelato will be released towards the end of July.
If you have any questions in the meantime or need help to get started, please reach out to us in our Telegram community!
We are looking forward to building with you!
