rialo

While all new chains are branding themselves as 'Ethereum killers' or 'the next Solana,' there exists a project that raised $20 million in seed funding from top institutions like Pantera Capital, which directly abbreviated 'Rialo Is Not A Layer One' as its name. The founding team at Subzero Labs has a sufficiently impressive background, with two core members, Ade Adepoju and Lu Zhang, both veterans from Mysten Labs (the developers of Sui), previously responsible for core infrastructure at Netflix, Meta's Diem project, and Google.
After leaving their former employer, these top developers did not continue to compete in TPS; instead, they poured cold water on the current state of the industry. Today's high-performance chains are like early MP3s: they suffice for listening to music, but are completely unfeasible for use as smart devices. The current decentralized application ecosystem is extremely distorted, and developers need to expend a great deal of effort on glue work: finding oracles to feed prices, building cross-chain bridges, and writing bots to monitor on-chain events. The patched-together systems are not only slow and expensive but also prone to collapse.

Recently, I have been following Rialo, a real-world blockchain project developed by the Sui veteran team Subzero Labs, which indeed has many unique aspects. Unlike traditional Layer 1 and Layer 2 public chains, Rialo focuses on 'real-world native connections', striving to break the barriers between blockchain and real-world applications, allowing developers to easily build blockchain applications in a production environment just like developing Web2 applications.

Rialo's design philosophy is very advanced: it supports smart contracts to directly call web data (such as FICO credit scores) without relying on third-party oracles, which undoubtedly greatly reduces the development difficulty of blockchain applications. Even more exciting is that users can log in using familiar methods such as email and social accounts, completely de-blockchainizing the experience, significantly lowering the entry barrier for ordinary users.