{"id":125107,"date":"2025-03-14T20:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T20:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=125107"},"modified":"2025-03-14T20:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T20:18:08","slug":"scale-or-fail-rlnc-technology-can-boost-web3-adoption-mit-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=125107","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Scale or fail\u2019: RLNC technology can boost Web3 adoption \u2014 MIT Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsAfter 15 years of research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC) is ready for commercialization in the Web3 industry, according to Muriel M\u00e9dard, an MIT professor and founder of blockchain infrastructure developer Optimum.
\nOptimum emerged from stealth on Feb. 28 as a decentralized memory infrastructure that can be utilized by any blockchain seeking to bring scalability to Web3. It utilizes the RLNC technology that was first formulated by Professor M\u00e9dard.\u00a0
\nRLNC is a breakthrough in coding that is already used in the 5G, satellite telecommunications and Internet of Things (IoT) industries.\u00a0
\nIn an interview with Cointelegraph, Professor M\u00e9dard said RLNC is equivalent to \u201cbreaking a puzzle into small pieces, mixing those pieces together into equations, and sending them to your friends.\u201d
\n\u201cEven if a few pieces get lost, your friends can still put the whole puzzle together from the pieces they receive. Rather than look for specific pieces, you look for just enough pieces,\u201d she said.
\nRLNC technology can help blockchains overcome \u201ccritical bottlenecks in scalability\u201d by \u201cencoding data into mathematical equations, enabling faster transmission, reduced bandwidth usage, lower barriers to entry for flexnodes and more reliable delivery,\u201d said M\u00e9dard.
\nM\u00e9dard co-founded Optimum with Nancy Lynch, an adviser and co-inventor of the Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus, after \u201cseveral years of witnessing the rise and maturation of Web3,\u201d she said.
\n\u201c[The] vision is to bring the efficiency of traditional computer memory (RAM) to decentralized networks, laying the foundation for a breakthrough in Web3 infrastructure.\u201d
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\n\u201cScale or Fail\u201d
\nRLNC\u2019s potential use case in Web3 has attracted notable backers, several of whom invested in Optimum as angel investors. They include Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal, Wormhole co-founder Robinson Burkey, Polychain chief technology officer Abhijeet Mahagaonkar, Bitget CEO Gracy Chen and Arthur Cheong, the founder and CEO of DeFiance Capital.
\nProfessor M\u00e9dard told Cointelegraph that scalability breakthroughs in Web3 are needed, especially as blockchain adoption continues to grow for the \u201cpurposes of payments, financial instruments and even diversification of national government strategies.\u201d
\n\u201cWe believe this trend will continue, and as usage and demand increase, blockchains will need to scale or they will fail,\u201d she said.\u00a0
\nScalability remains one of the industry\u2019s biggest bottlenecks, having plagued the development of both Bitcoin and Ethereum at various points over their history. Competing networks have vowed to fix scalability issues stemming from mass consumer adoption, though their track record has been far from perfect.\u00a0
\nAgainst this backdrop, the crypto payments landscape has evolved significantly in recent years, shifting from tokens to stablecoins that are much faster and cheaper.\u00a0
\nStablecoins have emerged as one of blockchain\u2019s most popular use cases, especially for payments and cross-border remittances. Source: DefiLlamaAn August report by wealth manager Bernstein said Solana is a leading network for stablecoin adoption, but even it struggles to scale with growing payment and remittance demand.
\nAlthough Solana has piloted stablecoin payments with Visa and Shopify, it\u2019s unclear whether the blockchain can facilitate mainstream adoption without a massive boost in capacity, Bernstein said.\u00a0
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