From cross-chain to public chain, can LayerZero's "multi-core" L1 network, Zero, break new ground in the general-purpose public chain battle? On February 11th, LayerZero Labs, the team behind the interoperability protocol LayerZero, announced the launch of its new public chain project, Zero, attempting to achieve a breakthrough in network performance by changing the single-threaded, homogeneous architecture of current mainstream blockchains. LayerZero believes that the existing blockchain system suffers from fundamental constraints stemming from its underlying architecture. For example, in mainstream public chains like Ethereum, all applications share the same virtual machine execution environment. To ensure state consistency and the correctness of transaction execution, each validator node in the network needs to download data and rerun it for verification. This results in significant wasted computing power and requires nodes to have homogeneous hardware capabilities. Meanwhile, to maintain its decentralized nature, Ethereum has long maintained a relatively low hardware threshold to ensure more nodes can participate in verification, but this objectively limits the upper limit of the network's overall throughput. Conversely, while high-performance public chains like Solana have significantly improved TPS by upgrading node hardware configurations, they have also increased the cost of participation in verification to some extent, leading to a more concentrated distribution of nodes. Therefore, Zero proposes a new approach: instead of having all verification nodes repeatedly execute transactions, a small number of high-performance nodes are responsible for executing and generating proofs, while the majority of other verification nodes are only responsible for verifying those proofs. ✜ The preview section has ended; the remaining hidden hardcore content is here 👇 research.web3caff.com/archives...… twitter.com/web3caff_zh/status...