Where does scale lie?
While blockchain industry experts focus on improving existing protocols, off-chain mechanisms and inventing new consensus algorithms to solve the TPS (Transactions Per Second) issue, we believe that there is a fundamental lower layer of the technology stack that warrants more attention. Increasing transaction ledger sizes (Ethereum is above 1TB) exposes the real bottleneck in our distributed world: the underlying networking layer. If public / private DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology) protocols are considered layer 1, the pure networking layer can be characterized as layer 0 that exists underneath blockchains.
dRoute is the mathematically optimal layer 0 network for the decentralized world. A global, high-performant, fully autonomous and censorship resistant Internet-alternative network.
We were able to solve the “hash” of the layer 0 network thereby unblocking the blockchain and offering unparalleled performance:
The attached figure shows the wide variation in latency inherent in the Internet core. For instance, even in regions with good Internet connections, such as the US, there is unacceptable variation in latency values. In our testing, latency variation in the middle mile from Virginia to San Francisco was 103 ms or 143% of the path’s median latency. On the other hand, latency variation over the dRoute network had extremely tight upper bounds and was always less than 5 ms.
Scalability of blockchains increases when there is an extremely low and tight bound on latency variation between nodes in the blockchain network.
Join us in dRouting the way to tomorrow’s decentralized world.
