We believe that the best way to scale blockchains, such as Ethereum, is to invest in layered scaling solutions. These solutions can help to improve scalability by offloading some of the computational and data processing requirements from the base layer to a secondary or tertiary layer.

ZK proofs are computationally expensive to generate and verify, which has limited their practical applications. However, the development of hardware acceleration has made it possible to generate and verify ZK proofs much faster, which has opened up new possibilities for their use.

Due to the decentralized nature of DEX’s, traders can expect to receive more competitive pricing and expedited settlement vs. what they would encounter on traditional trading platforms – and importantly, all the while benefitting from the central ethos of self-custody paramount to crypto’s success thus far.

Using protocols like Aave, Enzyme and Uniswap, anyone with a crypto-wallet can — respectively — save, invest and trade instantaneously with no custodial intermediaries. Activity is governed and recording transparently on the blockchain, and blue-chip protocols have shown more resilience than many centralized counterparts in adverse conditions.