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Summary Moreover, its behavior is constantly audited by the nodes it serves, and it is incapable of discriminating against individual nodes, blocks, and transactions. Emin Gün Sirer, distributed systems expert, and others from Northwestern University as well as Cornell University, have proposed a new method to increase blockchain scalability without any protocol changes or consensus requirements. The innovation here is this trustless or distributed nature of the bloXroute LAN like nodes network. BloXroute is complementary to sharding, Plasma, the Lightning Network, and so on, and is actually currently live at small scale. Uri Klarman, BloXroute CEO, further said they are testing the protocol at large scale in collaboration with Bitcoin Unlimited for their GigaBlocks project.

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Emin Gün Sirer, distributed systems expert, and others from Northwestern University as well as Cornell University, have proposed a new method to increase blockchain scalability without any protocol changes or consensus requirements.

BloXroute claims to address scalability by adding not second layers, nor making any changes, but by increasing the efficiency of Layer0 or the underlayer, so providing significantly higher capacity.

It does so by in effect creating a decentralized node, or server, that all other nodes can tap into. The whitepaper says:

“BloXroute implements and provides an efficient broadcast primitive to the blockchain nodes, via a network of Gateways, making them operate as if they are on the same Local Area Network, while in reality they might be residing at opposite parts of the globe.

As a result, bloXroute increases the throughput of the associated bloXroute-supported blockchains by more than 3 orders of magnitude relative to the state-of-...