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The Crypto Trilemmas: Blockchain, Bridge, ADL, Liquidity, Stablecoin, Web3

7 Apr 2026 3 minute read 0 comments ☑️0🆇D̺͈͙͕̿ͧ̑ͣ🅰🆅🅸🅳eͤ

In DeFi and Crypto, the concept of "trilemma" is often used to describe inevitable structural tradeoffs: improving two properties tends to worsen a third. There are no "perfect" systems: tradeoffs are always necessary. A blockchain can only maximize...

Arbitrum 🤔: Has the Layer 2 ‘Fee Savior’ Failed Its Biggest Test?

12 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Myxoplixx

The crypto world woke up to shockwaves on October 11th as Arbitrum’s transaction fees, called gas, catapulted to a jaw-dropping $100 during a period of intense market liquidations. This was more than just a technical hiccup; it felt like a betrayal f...

Parallelism: Unlocking Blockchain’s True Scalability

20 May 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Myxoplixx

Blockchain technology has long faced the challenge of the “scalability trilemma,” the difficulty of achieving high throughput, low latency, and robust decentralization all at once. Traditionally, blockchains like Ethereum have processed transactions...

SoftNotes on bc Tectum: A solution to the Trilemma?

23 Dec 2023 3 minute read 3 comments MikeZillo

It all starts in the early 1980s, in the naval domain and more specifically in submarines. To overcome emergencies, management software systems must be redundant, self-repairing and decentralized-what better situation to use distributed ledgers? This...

The Bridge Trilemma: Native Asset, Instant Guaranteed Finality, Unified Liquidity

22 Jan 2023 3 minute read 0 comments ☑️0🆇D̺͈͙͕̿ͧ̑ͣ🅰🆅🅸🅳eͤ

Who is in the blockchain world knows the famous trilemma concerning: decentralization, security, scalability. Decentralization means a non-centralized network, with many nodes. In order for it to be decentralized, the hardware to validate transaction...

What Are the Platform Wars?

11 Jan 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Todd Mei PhD

Perhaps in a few years no one will remember the Platform Wars. Out of a handful only one or two will ascend to a dominant position. It’s the way of capitalist markets — efficient or not — where only a few brands of mainstream technology can be profi...

Has a solution been found to the Trilemma?

21 Apr 2021 2 minute read 0 comments MikeZillo

In addition to various expressions such as the Game Theory, Byzantine Generals problem, Scalability, etc. etc.; you may have come across the Scalability Trilemma. This term owes its origin to Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum. It expresses the...

How can we make consensus really democratic?

11 Nov 2020 2 minute read 2 comments MikeZillo

We often read about Proof of Work, Proof of Stake, delegate Proof of Stake, proof of Concept, proof of Value. But, what are the prerogatives of the consensus in a Blockchain? Let’s start from the Blockchain Trilemma In Proof of Work we have lots of...