Data Availability Layer
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The Data-Availability Layer (or DAL) is a software component of Mavkit which allows users to publish data outside of the Tezos Layer 1 blocks, with no compromises on decentralization principles.
Its primary use case today is to scale the data bandwidth of :doc:`smart rollups <../active/smart_rollups>`, but other applications could be envisioned in the future.

The following pages provide an overview of the DAL and cover its different aspects and features.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   dal_overview
   dal_node
   dal_bakers

See also:

- :doc:`Protocol support for the DAL <../alpha/dal_support>`