Sending One Block 1,000 Times Doesn’t Scale 📡
$ETH and $SOL have radically different approaches to block production, but both depend on information spreading from a relatively small number of sources toward much larger sets of machines.
On the normal internet, sending the same information to many destinations can mean repeatedly creating and transmitting separate copies.
That becomes increasingly inefficient as the number of receivers and amount of data grow.
DoubleZero’s inner network is designed to support multicast.
Instead of forcing the sender to individually transmit the same stream toward every destination, data can enter the network once and be replicated inside the network as it moves toward multiple receivers.
The distinction matters because bandwidth at the sender is no longer required to grow in lockstep with the number of machines receiving the same information.
Blockchains spend enormous engineering effort making block production faster.
But after a block exists, somebody still has to tell everyone else about it.
#blockchain #Scaling
$ETH and $SOL have radically different approaches to block production, but both depend on information spreading from a relatively small number of sources toward much larger sets of machines.
On the normal internet, sending the same information to many destinations can mean repeatedly creating and transmitting separate copies.
That becomes increasingly inefficient as the number of receivers and amount of data grow.
DoubleZero’s inner network is designed to support multicast.
Instead of forcing the sender to individually transmit the same stream toward every destination, data can enter the network once and be replicated inside the network as it moves toward multiple receivers.
The distinction matters because bandwidth at the sender is no longer required to grow in lockstep with the number of machines receiving the same information.
Blockchains spend enormous engineering effort making block production faster.
But after a block exists, somebody still has to tell everyone else about it.
#blockchain #Scaling
