The Single Shard Thesis | Logan Jastremski

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The dumb design of a single shard, like it makes everybody's life easier. I think the interesting thing is if you're a new engineer today kind of seeing all these different trade-offs, blockchains look much more like Slana. It just seems more easy to me. And again, this is why we love parallel virtual machines and are pretty much focused on the ecosystems that enable parallelization.

Logan Jastremski joins us to discuss how parallelizable, high-throughput blockchains are the solution for scalable crypto products. We start with Logan's high-throughput thesis, why isolated fee markets and parallel computation are crucial features and how to analyze node requirements. Logan then explains why L2s won't scale, how DAS solutions are a feature, not a product, and his take on AppChains vs sector-specific chains.

And as usual, we start the episode with our analyst bullpen to discuss Coinbase, liquid staking derivatives post Shapella, rETH's withdrawal design and token incentive design.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(00:30) Hot Seat/Cool Throne

(25:11) Interview Start: Logan’s Background

(27:08) The High-Throughput Thesis

(29:10) Backpack and xNFTs

(32:44) Solana: State Compression, Hardware Requirements & Value Accrual

(46:00) “Lightspeed Ad”

(46:41) Quantifiably Measuring Decentralization

(50:30) The L2 Experiment

(56:14) Isolated Fee Markets

(59:30) Celestia, EigenLayer & Polygon Avail

(1:03:28) AppChains, Sector-Specific Chains & Mobile

(1:08:09) Solana's Community and DePIN

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Resources:

Westie

https://twitter.com/WestieCapital

Synthetix Dune Dashboard

https://dune.com/blockworks_research/synthetix

Polynya's OP discussion

https://gov.optimism.io/t/draft-inflation-adjustment-proposal-to-0/5936

DefiLlama

https://defillama.com/bridges

Frictionless Capital

https://www.frictionless.fund/

https://twitter.com/_Frictionless_

Logan's podcast

https://www.youtube.com/@LoganJastremskiPodcast

Vitalik's End Game

https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/12/06/endgame.html

Firedancer

https://jumpcrypto.com/firedancer/

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