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ALSO TODAY I CAME WORH? decentralization is good, why can't blockchains just keep adding validators?
At first, adding more validators sounds like a win.
More validators = more decentralization, better security, and less reliance on a small group of participants.
But there's a hidden challenge.
Every validator needs to receive and share blocks, transactions, and consensus messages with the rest of the network.
As the validator set grows, the amount of communication grows rapidly too.
Think of it like a group chat.
A chat with 10 people is easy.
A chat with 10,000 people quickly becomes noisy, slower, and much harder to coordinate.
This communication bottleneck is one of the biggest reasons many blockchains struggle to scale validator participation.
That's where
@get_optimum comes in.
Instead of relying on traditional peer-to-peer message propagation, Optimum uses Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC) to make data transmission more efficient and resilient.
Rather than forwarding the same data repeatedly across the network, information can be encoded and reconstructed, reducing network overhead and helping messages reach validators faster.
The result?
Blockchains can support larger validator sets without communication becoming the limiting factor.
Because true decentralization isn't just about adding more validators it's about making sure they can all communicate efficiently.
@blockchainjeff