Blockchain Bottleneck Shifts: Data Propagation Takes Center Stage

The bottleneck for blockchain technology is not about execution speed anymore, but rather how quickly data can move across the network. This is because more and more apps are moving on-chain, resulting in a significant increase in the amount of data that every node has to process.

This puts immense pressure on today's networking stack, highlighting the need for an upgraded protocol that can efficiently manage large amounts of data. A next-generation peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol is necessary to address this issue and optimize data propagation.

Instead of replacing consensus mechanisms, a new approach like Optimum upgrades the layer beneath it, making data propagation faster and more efficient. Decentralized RAM is added to help reduce latency and enable decentralized networks to scale without overburdening consensus.