Scaling Wars: The Race to Speed Up On-Chain Infrastructure

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Panel lays out concrete claims and tradeoffs: Berachain runs an EVM-identical L1 using proof of liquidity and CometBFT with ~256 validators to bootstrap app liquidity rather than raw speed; MegaETH targets 100 ktps and 1 millisecond block times by centralizing block production and settling to Ethereum; Monad rebuilds the execution stack with parallel execution and a high-performance DB; Eclipse ships an SVM L2 using Celestia for DA, optimistic fraud proofs now and a roadmap to ZK to eliminate the 7-day dispute window.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:32Why scale EVM chains
3. 4:23Solana speed and ecosystem
4. 7:38Decentralization vs performance
5. 13:35Fraud windows and ZK rollups
6. 15:42Chain abstraction and rollups
7. 16:26Community adoption key
8. 22:27Closing remarks

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