#novedades After 15 years of research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC) is ready for commercialization in the Web3 industry, according to Muriel Médard, a professor at MIT and founder of the blockchain infrastructure developer Optimum.

Optimum emerged from stealth mode on February 28 as a decentralized memory infrastructure that can be used by any blockchain looking to bring scalability to Web3. It uses RLNC technology that was initially formulated by Professor Médard.

RLNC is an advancement in coding that is already used in the 5G, satellite telecommunications, and Internet of Things (IoT) industries.

In an interview with Cointelegraph, Professor Médard said that RLNC is akin to "breaking a puzzle into small pieces, mixing those pieces into equations, and sending them to your friends."

"Even if some pieces are lost, your friends can assemble the entire puzzle with the pieces they receive. Instead of looking for specific pieces, you only look for enough pieces," she said.

RLNC technology can help blockchains overcome "critical scalability bottlenecks" by "coding data into mathematical equations, allowing for faster transmission, reduced bandwidth usage, lower barriers to entry for flexible nodes, and more reliable delivery," Médard said.

Médard co-founded Optimum with Nancy Lynch, an advisor and co-inventor of Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus, after "several years witnessing the rise and maturation of Web3," she said.

"[The] vision is to bring the efficiency of traditional computer memory (RAM) to decentralized networks, laying the groundwork for an advancement in Web3 infrastructure."