How Zero Blockchain Cracked 2M TPS Without Sacrificing Decentralization

Bullish:

• $LAYERZERO - LayerZero Labs launching Xero blockchain with breakthrough technology enabling 2M TPS at extremely low cost, backed by major institutional partners

  • “Xero has achieved 400x breakthroughs in storage, compute, network and ZK proofs to enable 2 million transactions per second per zone at a cost of one ten thousandth of a penny per transaction”

    Bryan·27:30

  • “we will stand on stage and demonstrate a live demo net verifying a million transactions per second in real time, right? Like tiny nodes. By the way, these are on a Raspberry Pi”

    Bryan·35:01
• $ZRO - ZRO token will be the gas and staking asset for Xero blockchain with no new token launch, consolidating value

  • “No new token. This was a big part of why we actually you couldn't talk about it at the time, but why we wanted to reacquire Stargate and go through that whole process was we really just want this consolidation”

    Bryan·30:37

  • “zero is the only asset, and it is going to be the underlying gas asset and staking asset for proof of stake”

    Bryan·30:55
• $STABLES - Tether and stablecoins showing massive profitability and growth potential as most profitable companies per employee

  • “Tether is most profitable company in the world on a per head count per employee head count”

    Bryan·11:49

  • “Tethr is making 10 to $15,000,000,000 per year”

    Bryan·26:05

  • “USDT 0 was like, okay. We're we're gonna start going. We're gonna start expanding to a couple of these networks... Nine months later, it's done $70,000,000,000 of volume”

    Bryan·38:32
• $DEFI - Decentralized finance protocols like Hyperliquid showing exceptional profitability and value creation through permissionless access

  • “Hyperliquid is the second most I know there. These are unbelievable companies that have generated unbelievable value just through decentralized and permissionless access to some of these instruments”

    Bryan·11:55

  • “permissionless global markets have inherent value”

    Bryan·11:45

Bearish:

• $LAYERTWO - Layer 2 solutions criticized as centralized, not truly inheriting security, and failing to solve scaling properly

  • “every day he was ranting to me about layer twos. He was extremely upset around sort of the Ethereum moving away from sharding, positioning this as their scaling layer, and and describing it as inheriting the underlying base. He thought this was, like, a like, really just, like, a not true factual statement”

    Bryan·3:12

  • “you're putting out tens of billions of dollars and changing the trust assumptions into this small set. You have this centralized blockchain that sits on top of a decentralized blockchain”

    Bryan·5:52

  • “even to all of this, all the layer twos, all of Solana, everything combined, you're at, like, six, seven thousand transactions per second. It's, like, just not enough for real world systems”

    Bryan·6:47
• $SOL - Solana criticized for centralizing approach with expensive nodes and still only achieving limited throughput

  • “performance blockchain, Solana, etcetera, is basically reduce the number of nodes and increase the requirements of the nodes. So get rid of home stakers. Nodes cost, you know, tens of thousands of dollars a month or more to run”

    Bryan·5:22

  • “you get to about, you know, 2,000, 3,000 transactions per second”

    Bryan·5:36

  • “to do that million transactions per second, you had to daisy chain roughly 30 supercomputers, co located in a data center, and each node could actually only get to, like, 33,000 transactions per second”

    Bryan·8:56