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Layer 0 - What ??

Ankit Singh
BlockTrain
Published in
2 min readJun 16, 2022

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You may have come across layer 1, layer 2, and layer 3 in the blockchain. But have you heard of Layer 0, if not let’s see what is it actually?

Layer 1 blockchains are chains having their own infrastructure, their own protocols and consensus mechanism. Layer 2 is built on top of layer 1 which solves the scalability issues and makes it more affordable. Then there is layer 3, which is the application layer(Dapps and protocols that enables the Dapps to work).

Chronology - Layer 0 -> layer 1 -> layer 2 -> layer 3

So going back from Layer 1 refers to the infrastructure that is being used by protocols. All the hardware, servers, nodes and devices connected to the nodes come under Layer 0.

Layer 0 chains can seamlessly connect with layer 1 chains and can support interportability. They can fix the scalability issue with the power to customize the logic for your product.

The most popular layer 0 chains to build upon is PolkaDot(https://polkadot.network/) and Cosmos(https://cosmos.network/)

More about layer 0 can be read here 👇

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