🚀 🔥 Binance Labs Invests in Hemi Labs to Enhance Blockchain Scalability and Interoperability 🔥
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Binance Labs has announced its investment in Hemi Labs, the developer behind the Hemi Network, a Layer-2 modular blockchain that integrates Bitcoin and Ethereum for enhanced security, scalability, and interoperability. This investment underscores Binance Labs' commitment to advancing decentralized technologies and promoting blockchain innovation.Hemi Network aims to combine Bitcoin’s robust security and capital base with Ethereum’s programmability, creating a new supernetwork to address gaps between the two largest blockchain protocols. The platform focuses on building decentralized applications (hApps), improving Bitcoin-Ethereum interoperability, and enabling secure asset transfers through its Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) and Proof-of-Proof (PoP) consensus mechanism.Binance Labs’ support will accelerate Hemi’s development over the next 12 months, with upcoming releases in trustless cross-chain tunneling, AI data anchoring, and decentralized finance (DeFi) applications."We are excited to support Hemi Labs in their mission to build a more unified and scalable blockchain ecosystem," said Alex Odagiu, Investment Director at Binance Labs. Jeff Garzik, CEO of Hemi Labs, added, "Binance Labs' backing will help us achieve our vision of reshaping blockchain infrastructure with cutting-edge solutions." #BinanceLabs #HemiLabs #BlockchainScalability #Interoperability #Layer2 #Bitcoin #Ethereum #DecentralizedApplications #hApps #HemiNetwork #CrossChain #DeFi #BlockchainInnovation
🚀 Vitalik Buterin Discusses Layered Understanding of Blockchain Scalability
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Vitalik Buterin has shared his insights on the layered understanding of blockchain scalability. According to Odaily, he categorizes the difficulty of scaling blockchain components from easiest to hardest as computation, data, and state.
Buterin explains that computation is the easiest to scale, achievable through parallelization, using 'hints' provided by block builders, or replacing extensive computation with proofs like zero-knowledge proofs. Data scaling is moderately difficult, especially when systems require data availability guarantees. However, it can be optimized through data splitting, erasure coding methods like PeerDAS, and supporting 'graceful degradation,' allowing nodes with lower data capacity to still generate blocks of corresponding size.
In contrast, state is the most challenging aspect to scale. Buterin notes that even to verify a single transaction, nodes require the complete state. Even if the state is abstracted as a tree with only the root node saved, updating this root still depends on the complete state. Although there are methods to split the state, they often necessitate significant architectural changes and are not universally applicable.
Based on these observations, Buterin concludes that if data can replace state without introducing new centralization assumptions, it should be prioritized. Similarly, if computation can replace data without new centralization assumptions, it should be seriously considered.#VitalikButerin #BlockchainScalability #LayeredUnderstanding #ComputationScaling #DataScaling #StateScaling #ZeroKnowledgeProofs #PeerDAS #GracefulDegradation #BlockchainArchitecture #ETH