Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana, calls for building a multi-blockchain linking system with the goal of reducing storage costs and increasing data availability.
Co-founder and CEO of Solana Labs, Anatoly Yakovenko, has just announced a new proposal for a "meta-blockchain" structure – a system integrating data from multiple different blockchains, aimed at solving data storage costs in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. This idea emerges in a context where decentralized data storage solutions are being developed by many major projects.
According to his social media sharing, Yakovenko describes the meta-blockchain as a system that collects and synchronizes data blocks from various blockchains like Solana, Celestia, and Ethereum. "There should be a meta-blockchain. Post data anywhere – Ethereum, Celestia, Solana – and use a specific rule to merge data from all chains into a single sequence," he wrote.
Optimize Costs and Increase Data Accessibility
A highlight of Yakovenko's proposal is the ability to leverage competitive price advantages between blockchains. Users can flexibly choose the platform with the lowest storage costs at any given time, thereby optimizing operational costs for decentralized applications.
"Making data provision cheap will make everything else cheap. Bandwidth is an unavoidable bottleneck," Yakovenko emphasized. This proposal is particularly aimed at projects that need to store large amounts of data on the blockchain, which are currently facing significant costs despite on-chain storage prices having decreased on many platforms.
Technically, Yakovenko also describes a specific implementation method: "A simple way to do this is to have transactions (tx) reference the latest block headers from potential data availability (DA) layers. For example, a MetaTX posted on Solana will include the most recent block observed from Ethereum and Celestia."
Beyond cost benefits, the meta-blockchain also promises to enhance decentralization and data availability by distributing information across multiple blockchains. Yakovenko believes: "Users can choose between the fastest completion time and cost. I think the combination will be rational, as long as the merge rule is definitive."
