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Rebuilding the internet’s base layer for high-performance blockchains is the next frontier. Austin Federa | 🇺🇸 explains why bandwidth, not compute, is the real bottleneck + how Shelby and DoubleZero pair decentralized hot storage with global high-throughput on Aptos.

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