Ether is one of the best, most advanced blockchains out — but it was slowed down by a single online game called CryptoKitties circa December 2017. Vitalik’s words about scalability are no exaggeration.

The main problem is the very nature of blockchain technology. We’ll explain why blockchains are inherently poor at scaling in another article.

For now, what matters is that traditional blockchains based on Proof of Work get slow over time — and nobody’s quite sure how to solve this problem. Adding more mining and non-mining nodes doesn’t change a blockchain’s transaction capacity. Neither does increasing the mining power of an individual node.

Indeed, the single best way to improve scalability is to step away from traditional blockchain structures.

To this end, Kirik is a useful tool for two reasons. First, KIRIK uses IOTA’s Tangle. These tangles are similar but not identical to classical blockchains, with the main difference being that they scale well and work much faster as the amount of transactions goes up.

Second — and this is important — Kirik is a meta-protocol that connects blockchains (and other databases and asset types) with each other. Using its features, all kinds of other blockchains and protocols can scale better by taking advantage of tangles — even if they don’t inherently use tangles themselves.

Wait for the second problem in the next posts.

Find out more about KIRIK: https://goo.gl/kgNjFv