Overcoming Blockchain Bloat With FLETA

Cryptocurrency adoption is positive, but as the transactions increase more data needs to be transmitted and stored on the blockchain.

Corlynne O’Sullivan
2 min readMay 24, 2019

The bloat problem concerns how to permanently store trillions upwards of blocks on-chain, furthermore, how to transmit and/or download the chain within a fair timeframe. As use of blockchain grows, these challenges will be pervasive. Networks may become unstable, and it may necessitate increasing the block size. This could lead to the media spreading uncertainty and impact crypto valuations and adoptions. Bloat various effects for networks. One major risk is long synchronization times between a wallet this may also have an on the networks transaction fees.

FLETA has an original architecture contains two anti-bloating designs:

  • Parallel sharding.
  • Independent multi-chain Structure.

Sharding solves the long-term problem of bloat. Over time, there will be billions of blocks (or more) on-chain. Although each block adds a tiny amount of data, the accumulated info will eventually grow to huge sizes. FLETA develope a sharding algorithm, can be operated in parallel, without double spending, as each shard is separated so that the data is not shared among them. The increase of TPS is accomplished with the increase in the number of shards, along with the enhancement of TPS in each shard, delivering 20,000 transactions per second. this is the fastest TPS of individual shards among existing blockchain projects.

FLETA employs an independent multi-chain structure, with the existence of a sub-chain apart from the main-chain, solving the main-chain overload problem and decreasing fees both for developers and users. This is done by separating the performance of the main-chain and the data domain. DApps operate independently (they are not mutually influenced), leading to a limitless number of DApps being available. In turn, results in the reduction of excessive development costs of DApps and execution fees caused by using DApps.

Fleta provides a strong stance against bloat, other major networks such as Ethereum are engineering protocol-level changes such as sharding, aimed at minimizing the database to overcome bloating. Fleta’s solution for parallel sharing provides the ability to reduce the size of a blockchain through pruning or compacting its size. This presents enormous benefits for the sustainable decentralization of the network and removing the delegation of trust. This is a major part of creating increasing the scalability of DApps. FLETA’s independent multi-chain structure developers to create large-scale Dapps with lower fees making DApp development more accessible and scalable.

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Corlynne O’Sullivan

Specialising in design, implementation and evaluation of blockchain-enabled systems.