To be honest, looking at Web3 projects now gives me the feeling of hearing slogans shouted from a loudspeaker at the village entrance.
The streets are filled with discussions about full-chain games and metaverse socializing, all hyped up to the heavens, but when you take a closer look, there isn’t even the most basic ‘smoothness’ to be found. You’d think a game that focuses on high-frequency interactions would allow you to click the mouse without waiting ten seconds for confirmation, and you’d have to keep an eye on gas fees that might spike because someone next door is dropping an airdrop. This kind of experience doesn’t just fail to attract players from outside who are used to AAA titles; even I, as an old-school player, find it exhausting.
Recently, I took some time to analyze the logic of @MidnightNetwork , and I suddenly realized: these people didn’t intend to compete on single-machine performance; they are here to upgrade Ethereum’s old engine with a ‘multi-threaded core.’
Everyone can think of a simple example: you have a supermarket at your doorstep; previously, there was only one checkout counter, and whether you were buying a bottle of water or pushing a whole cart of goods, you had to queue up honestly. If the person ahead got stuck, everyone behind had to wait. Most current Layer 2 networks operate on this ‘single-threaded’ mindset. But $NIGHT is working on parallel execution, which is equivalent to opening eight checkout counters, each settling their own accounts. You play your chain game, I handle my transactions, and everyone is not holding each other up; efficiency skyrockets.
The current market is too restless; everyone is chasing those air pumps that can be executed in just a few minutes, while this kind of hardcore work on virtual machine (VM) underlying architecture is seen as too heavy and too slow.
But this is the real moat. Marketing tactics can change in a day, but achieving a qualitative change in performance at the underlying architecture level requires real coding and hard work. Once this kind of parallel processing infrastructure gains traction, those tens of millions of applications originally blocked by lag and high transaction fees will truly have a chance.
I’m not in the mood to predict opening prices; I just want to see when the mainnet is launched and performance is fully unleashed, whether those projects that have been shouting for years about ‘mass adoption’ can really take off on this highway.
