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What’s the point of a non-EVM chain? A Technical deep-dive with Zenllama

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The Basic Principles of Blockchains

There's a lack of rigor, especially when it comes to this trilemma that keeps popping up anytime people try to compare blockchains. How can we think about blockchains from maybe first principles? The database is just a series of independent servers with some memory and essentially instructions of code to run on them. They're all essentially like a ledger database - they track pieces of information that you send to them as transactions.

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