The Tale of the Record-Breaking Arrow
In the pantheon of blockchains, Ethereum was the wise but slow monarch, sitting on a throne of gold, surrounded by a crowd that grew larger each day, but was forced to pay exorbitant tolls to enter his castle. For years, the crypto world accepted this slowness as the necessary cost of security and decentralization. The idea of having payment speed and efficiency like Visa or Mastercard, while maintaining decentralization, was considered a chimera, a naive dream of overly ambitious developers. The arrow of scalability always seemed to find an insurmountable shield.
