Coordination-Avoidance: Rethinking Decentralized Networks Beyond Global Consensus

Thu, Jun 19, 2025, 02:08 PM · 22:29

Blockchains today are decentralized networks of fat servers. Rollups also operate on fat servers for sequencing and proving. The vast majority of users of these systems run thin clients that always interact through these servers, an architecture that (1) fails to leverage the local compute capability (2) rely on (decentralised) middlemen for interaction, necessitating transaction fees for middlemen incentivisation.