How to Build Consumer Dapps on Morph With Tenderly

Morph is a consumer-oriented L2 rollup network built on Ethereum. It merges optimistic rollups and ZK technology to provide an optimistic-zkEVM solution. The new hybrid solution emphasizes being the first Ethereum Layer 2 that features a native decentralized sequencer network design. The design is at its underlying logic from the get-go, laying the infrastructure for the consumer-centric approach. 

As a consumer-focused blockchain solution, Morph aims to drive user adoption beyond the financial and DeFi focus, and offer a platform for building impactful products and services that improve daily lives. The Morph team decided to tackle the limited range of applications beyond DeFi, striving to enhance real-world applications with fundamental blockchain properties. 

These new fundamental technological properties are now supercharged with Tenderly’s full-stack infrastructure for the entire dapp lifecycle. With the only Node RPC that features built-in development environments and industry-leading exploration and debugging tools, you can now be faster and more efficient in your efforts to build powerful everyday dapps on Morph.

Morph’s role in scaling Ethereum

One of the key issues the Morph team addresses is the narrow focus of Layer 2 networks, with many targeting predominantly DeFi applications. This is the reason why Morph is not built for a specific niche but instead seeks to provide a platform catering to everyday consumer needs, aligning blockchain technology with the broader market and everyday life. 

The core idea behind Morph and its approach is to provide a platform for creating services that offer benefits to average users in gaming, social media, music, and commerce, enhanced by the blockchain’s fundamental properties.

The new rollup still wants to attract adoption and builders of all services, DeFi included, with established dapp categories being a stepping stone to the larger mission and goals of providing technology for everyday-improving applications and services. 

Benefits for Morph builders

Morph introduces several technological innovations that facilitate the development of consumer dapps on the chain. It also supports developers in their journey on Morph with incentive programs designed to encourage ecosystem growth and chain adoption.

Here’s just a few reasons why you should build on Morph: 

• Responsive Validity Proof (RVP) system: As the combination of optimistic and zero-knowledge rollups, the RVP system ensures the efficiency and security of the Morph chain. Morph integrates ZK proofs into the optimistic rollup framework, enabling faster finality time, lower transaction costs, and improved scalability. Aside from enabling faster and more efficient development on Morph, such an approach also boosts end user experience essential for consumer applications. 
• Distributed sequencer network: To bypass the challenges of centralized sequencers, Morph distributes transaction sequencing and batching across multiple sequencers. This way, Morph creates a Decentralized Sequencer Network that enables multiple node participants (sequencers) to package and sequence transactions, enabling impartial transaction processing. Additionally, such a distributed approach ensures the network’s resiliency and uptime while enabling developers to build responsive dapps that support high traffic volumes.
• Ongoing ambassador program: The Morph Ambassador Program is designed to drive the adoption of the Morph network and blockchain in general. With valuable resources, diverse events, and other incentives, Morph supports developers, researches, educators, and other participants to share the chain’s vision. Developers who join the program get some valuable perks such as guidance from and sessions with Morph’s leadership and technical teams, development grants, and compensation packages based on their contribution to the ecosystem.
• Mainnet launch incentives: Morph is currently available on a public Holesky testnet while its mainnet beta is expected to go live in the second quarter of this year. To grow development on Morph, the project announced its incentives program. The program will grant up to 100,000 in USDT stablecoin to selected projects, among other benefits. The program will also allocate around 30% of Morph's airdrops to ecosystem projects chosen as its mainnet launching partners.

Building consumer-facing dapps using Tenderly

You can use Tenderly’s full-stack infrastructure to build, test, and scale essential consumer dapps on Morph, ensuring their optimal performance and scalability. With development and production infrastructure under one roof, you can eliminate the overhead of infrastructure management while ensuring seamless collaboration across your teams. 

Here’s how to use Tenderly’s infrastructure and tools throughout for your entire dapp lifecycle on Morph Holesky.

Build and test consumer dapps on Morph on-chain data

Get Morph’s on-chain data from the earliest stages of dapp development with Virtual TestNets, zero-setup development infrastructure. Fork the Morph Holesky testnet and set up your own replica that’s ongoingly synced with the network state yet yours to build privately with your team. 

By using Virtual TestNets as collaborative development environments, you can build and test under realistic conditions identical to Morph Holesky. Plus, you and your team can customize Virtual TestNet instances to fit any team workflow, from local development and CI to dapp staging and public testing. 

• Fork Morph Holesky and turn on State Sync to get up-to-date on-chain data while developing.
• Use custom RPC methods to manipulate the state of your environment, setting custom balances, forwarding time, or adjusting storage.
• Get both a private and public explorer, one for your team to gain in-depth visibility while building, the other for external sharing as needed. 
• Troubleshoot with built-in debugging tools, detecting and fixing issues even before you deploy to Morph Holesky.

Set the ultimate production infrastructure 

Node RPC gives you both essential and advanced capabilities so you can ensure optimal dapp performance on-chain. To get started, head up to the Tenderly Dashboard and create as many Morph Node RPCs as you need to use across your projects. 

With Tenderly Node RPC at the core of your production infrastructure, you get: 

• High performance and scalability with soft rate limits and SLAs ensuring uninterrupted service even at times of usage spikes.
• Multigregional support with smart traffic routing to the most appropriate location globally.
• Built-in simulation infrastructure that you can integrate into your dapp to provide 100% gas estimates, prevent transaction failures, and uncover malicous behavior.
• Advanced monitoring systems with real-time alerts for crucial on-chain events and automatic responses for instant issue mitigation. 

Explore, monitor, and debug Morph on-chain data at speed

Set up a development-first explorer to navigate, analyze, and debug Morph’s on-chain data with precision, efficiency, and ease. Add your contracts or wallets to Tenderly, highlighting important addresses with custom names and colors. 

Instead of sifting through wealth of data on a classic block explorer, focus on what matters most to your dapp with essential developer tools: 

• Transaction Overview provides granular insights into trace-by-trace execution, as well as balance and state changes, emitted events, involved contracts, and more. 

• Debugger with human-readable error messages and the most detailed stack trace allows you to pinpoint the exact location and cause of a bug. 

• Simulator enables you to update all transaction inputs, parameters, and even contract code to simulate execution and preview the outcomes without deploying on-chain. 

• Gas Profiler breaks down gas usage per individual function call, enabling you to analyze and optimize your code to reduce gas consumption. 

Build and scale powerful consumer dapps at speed 

By joining the Morph ecosystem you can support the chain’s vision to boost real-world applications with powerful on-chain capabilities, bringing blockchain technology closer to everyday users. Thanks to the networks unique architecture that combines optimistic and zero-knowledge rollups, you can build user-facing dapps that ensure Web2-like experiences. 

With Tenderly’s full-stack infrastructure and industry-leading dev tools, you can move fast through each stage of the dapp development cycle. Build with your team efficiently and scale on-chain without limitation on top of Web3 infrastructure designed to fit your dapp.

As you wait for Morph mainnet to go live, use Tenderly Virtual TestNets to fork Morph Sepolia and start building unique consumer dapps now.