Austin Federa on Solving Crypto's Bandwidth Problem with DoubleZero

In today's episode, we tackle crypto's real scalability bottleneck with Austin Federa, co-founder of DoubleZero.

Austin, who was the Strategy lead at Solana, walks us through a crucial issue that impacts blockchain performance: network latency. While improvements in validator software are making a difference, the underlying network delays still limit the system’s overall efficiency. Subtle (but big) problem.

DoubleZero is building a specialized private network using technologies like multicast, the same approach high-frequency traders use. By focusing on optimizing communication, they're opening the door to massive improvements in throughput and fairness.

We explore how these infrastructure challenges tie into regional fairness, and how this could change the game for crypto performance.

Let's get into it.

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