Do fast blockchains have to sacrifice security? The blockchain trilemma
While tradeoffs are unavoidable, experts interviewed by crypto.news believe that the blockchain trilemma sheds light on the challenges developers face and ways to navigate them. The blockchain trilemma, coined by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin in 2017, highlights the challenges developers face in creating distributed ledger systems. According to Buterin, architects must make tradeoffs and prioritize two out of three key features. In an interview with crypto.news, Luke Nolan, a research associate at CoinShares, concurred with this viewpoint. Nolan believes that, in a broad sense, the blockchain trilemma effectively illustrates the challenge of achieving all three features to their fullest extent. He emphasized that developers often sacrifice some aspects or both when optimizing one feature. The blockchain trilemma Alex Dulub, Founder of Web3 Antivirus, suggests that speeding up a blockchain can sometimes compromise its safety. He believes that solutions like Layer-2 (L2) netwo...
