Top MIT researcher shows that decentralization Ethereum, Solana can accelerate

New research work led by a TOP MIT researcher suggests that decentralization is not only a design choice, but a principle of efficiency, where control separates as a system scale.

In the crypto industry, decentralization is loosely defined as the distribution of power and control over several independent participants, rather than a single central authority.

It means that no entity – such as a company or government – can decide how the system works, changes the rules or can stop transactions itself.

“The first rule of control is perceptibility. You cannot check for something that you do not perceive and observability do not scales,” said Muriel Médard, co-founder and CEO of decentralized memory infrastructure company Optimum, told Decrypt In an interview on Token2049 in Singapore.

The question is no longer whether you agree with decentralization or more of decentralization, but more about how “centralization does not work as soon as a system becomes large enough,” Médard explained.

These ideas were investigated for the first time in Médard’s recent MIT study On wireless transmitters, who have shown how to distribute functions instead of centralizing they can make communication systems much more energy efficient.

But Médard’s statement that decentralization works more efficiently as standard is and more about How It behaves.

Every explanation about nature ‘is already deducted from a fundamental lack of natural frames, such as in the comparison, N-1,’ Virgilio Rivas, professor in philosophy at Polytechnic University of the Philippines, said Decrypt.

Rivas explains that systems organize itself by removing a single center or a fixed frame. In simple terms, nature works through connections and differences and behaves in such a way that it can be observed “in its” real standard “.

Nevertheless, the Médard team now applies the same principle to blockchain networks at Optimum, which means that its research into distributed efficiency is converted into code.

Their new network layer, tested on Ethereum’s Hoodi test network, spread blocks in around 150 milliseconds – about 6.5 times faster than Gossipsub, the Ethereum system used to share data between validators.

Dubbed Mump2pThe Optimum system builds on mathematical principles that Médard developed for the first time more than two decades ago in the US military research into reliable communication networks.

“What we build is the memory layer”, which works “as the operating system of a computer,” she explained. Memory helps systems to move data, and that is where most inefficiencies take place in block chains, Médard claims.

Optimum says his test network shows that faster data exchange can make block chains such as Ethereum or Solana work more efficiently, with faster transactions and lower costs that can influence how users trade and interact.

But although lower latency can help to help ‘narrow price locations’, large profits such as those shown by optimum will not immediately ‘delete’ existing bottlenecks, said Kanny Lee, founder and CEO of the decentralized exchange protocol Secondswap.

“Even with a six times improvement compared to Ethereum, Blockchain still works much slower than traditional finances,” Lee said Decrypt. However, what this indicates is, however, an ‘more efficient environment on the chain’, in which arbitration ‘becomes more difficult and the markets react faster to information, “he added.

Given these benefits, blockchain systems could behave “less than a relay and more like an integrated trade network,” Lee said.

He noted that as the infrastructure improves, the edge shifts from speed to access as seen in markets for locked tokens, fortification allocations and structured distributions that “deal with timing and access, not latency.”