Listen, there's an interesting topic on the horizon — MegaETH. This is such a new project that, in fact, makes Ethereum "on steroids." The idea is for the blockchain to work not just quickly, but instantly — with delays of less than a millisecond and the ability to process more than 100,000 transactions per second. So that you understand the scale: this is the level of traditional Internet services, such as those that we use every day - from social networks to cloud games.
What's the trick? MegaETH is not just a fork or upgrade of Ethereum. They completely rethought the architecture of the network. In a regular blockchain, each node does the same thing, and this slows down the entire system. And here the nodes were divided into roles.:
Sequencers — organize and execute transactions.
Replicas — store the state of the blockchain and respond to read requests.
Full nodes — validate transactions and update data.
Verifiers — create cryptographic evidence to verify transactions.
This specialization allows you not to waste resources on duplication of work, but to work seriously quickly and efficiently.
A special thrill is the mini blocks that are created every 10 milliseconds. That is, new data gets into the blockchain almost immediately, there are no long delays like now. And to make it all fly, MegaETH also optimizes the EVM (Ethereum virtual machine) using JIT compilation. It's like turbo mode for smart contracts: the code turns into machine code literally on the go, and everything works many times faster.
Considering that the project has already raised $20 million from serious guys (including even Vitalik and Lubin), it has a really cool chance of becoming something more than just an experiment.
So, I'm sitting here thinking — if MegaETH really is going to be so fast and scalable, won't it turn out that in a couple of years most new dApps will be built on it, and not on regular Ethereum? Do you think this is the future or just a hype?
