Source: Cointelegraph
Original: (DoubleZero CEO: The public Internet is the bottleneck for blockchain)
According to Austin Federa, co-founder and CEO of DoubleZero, the public Internet infrastructure is a key constraint on the speed and performance of high-throughput blockchain networks. DoubleZero is dedicated to developing high-speed fiber communication track projects for blockchain.
Federa stated in an interview with Cointelegraph at the 2025 Consensus conference: "The downside of the public Internet is that it was never designed for high-performance systems. It has always been built for the relationship between a large server and small servers." The executive explained:
He added that the limitations of public Internet infrastructure are now the decisive factor in blockchain performance, rather than computing power or software development.
Networks like DoubleZero will make blockchain faster, reduce spreads in decentralized finance (DeFi) transactions, lower transaction costs, and open up new use cases for blockchain networks that were previously unachievable due to communication infrastructure limitations.
DoubleZero was co-founded by Austin Federa in 2024. Austin left the Solana Foundation in December 2024 to establish the DoubleZero protocol. The project's goal is to reduce the time required for data transmission in the network (i.e., latency) and to increase bandwidth—the maximum data flow the network can handle at once.
In April 2025, DoubleZero conducted a validator token sale, selling token purchase agreements to node operators interested in becoming network validators.
This token sale is only open to qualified investors and validators who are already active on high-throughput blockchain networks such as Solana, Celestia, Sui, Aptos, and Avalanche.
The DoubleZero team plans to launch its public mainnet in the second half of 2025, having successfully raised $28 million in funding.
Federa told Cointelegraph that the growing high throughput of blockchain networks and the overall development of the industry urgently require the construction of dedicated high-performance communication infrastructure to meet the increasingly complex project demands.
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