{"id":203292,"date":"2025-10-10T18:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T18:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/203292\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T18:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T18:34:10","slug":"former-solana-strategy-head-is-building-the-new-internet-for-blockchains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/203292\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Solana Strategy Head is Building the &#8216;New Internet&#8217; for Blockchains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DoubleZero:- When people talk about scaling blockchains, they obsess over computation \u2013 faster nodes, better hardware, parallel execution. But Austin Federa, former Head of Strategy at Solana Foundation, thinks everyone is solving the wrong bottleneck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlockchains are only as fast as the internet that connects their validators. And that internet \u2013 the public internet \u2013 was never designed for this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why after leaving Solana in 2024, Federa founded DoubleZero, a project that doesn\u2019t build blockchains \u2013 it builds the network beneath them. Not Layer 1 or Layer 2. Think: Layer 0.5 \u2013 bandwidth. \u201cWe\u2019re not solving compute. We\u2019re solving connectivity,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>The Hidden Infrastructure Nobody Talks About<\/p>\n<p>In blockchains, latency equals to money.Validators with faster message propagation earn more. Traders with quicker transaction settlement capture more. RPC providers with lower packet loss retain customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLatency wars\u201d have long been played behind closed doors by HFT firms. Now DoubleZero is bringing that model to crypto \u2013 but keeping it open-source, permissionless, and censorship-resistant.<\/p>\n<p>Google, Amazon, OpenAI, Flashbots, and high-frequency trading firms have quietly spent billions building private fiber lines just to get 3 milliseconds of advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Federa believes \u201cIf the most powerful AI labs and trading firms don\u2019t trust the public internet\u2026 why do blockchains?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/coingape.com\/brandtalk\/pulse\/smartphone-race-in-web3-after-solana-seeker-ethereum-phone-dgen1-launches\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">After Solana, Ethereum Phone Drops<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what DoubleZero is building. It\u2019s building a blockchain-coordinated marketplace where existing fiber owners contribute capacity. With this, it is forming a censorship-resistant, liquidity-routed bandwidth network optimized for low latency and validator throughput.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-271079\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0a775449-9fad-456b-884f-24c40ee3a770.png\" alt=\"DoubleZero\" width=\"740\" height=\"249\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Within only a week of its mainnet launch, 20% of Solana\u2019s total stake \u2014 over 250 validators across 25+ cities \u2014 are already routing through DoubleZero\u2019s network. Speed on DoubleZero routes is reported to be significantly faster than public internet pathways \u2014 because the routing isn\u2019t optimized for general use \u2014 it\u2019s purpose-specific internet.<\/p>\n<p>Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/coingape.com\/brandtalk\/pulse\/justin-sun-announces-entry-of-tron-into-perps-dex-race-launches-sunperp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TRON Makes Entry into Perp DEXs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Towards Decentralized Internet?<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cdecentralized web\u201d still runs on centralized, privately owned fiber controlled by 15 telecom giants. All of crypto (validators, dApps, wallets, nodes) runs on the public internet, which is controlled by a small number of telecoms and governments. They can switch off access anytime \u2013 like recentlyAfghanistan did blocking many Ethereum users out of access.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional private fiber networks (used by Google, Amazon, OpenAI, Flashbots, etc.) are centralized \u2014 controlled by one company each DoubleZero\u2019s parallel internet made from independent contributors can offer help as they share and link their private fiber lines and bandwidth. It\u2019s not dependent on public carriers like Verizon, Airtel, or state ISPs.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone assumes the internet is just\u2026 there but\u00a0according to Austin are all optimized for Netflix, not validator consensus or MEV arbitrage.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1311\" data-end=\"1338\">So in real-world terms, Ethereum validators in Afghanistan could switch from using Taliban-controlled ISPs to DoubleZero\u2019s fiber network contributed by providers in Dubai, India, Europe, and Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Even if the government blocks country-level ISP gateways, they can\u2019t shut down private cross-border fiber links hidden within the DoubleZero contributor mesh. This would give blockchains &amp; users a fallback layer \u2014 a crypto-native internet backbone, not dependent on centralized telecoms.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, Afghanistan\u2019s Ethereum blackout shows why Web3 needs its own roads \u2013 not just better cars.<\/p>\n<p>Also Read:<a href=\"https:\/\/coingape.com\/brandtalk\/pulse\/coinbase-tweaks-remote-work-policy-amid-expansion-and-falling-trading-volumes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Coinbase\u2019s New Remote Policy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                                 Why trust CoinGape: CoinGape has covered the cryptocurrency industry since 2017, aiming to provide informative insights to our readers. 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