DoubleZero

• DoubleZero builds dedicated fibre network infrastructure to reduce latency between blockchain validators.

• It routes validator traffic over private links rather than the public internet.

• 2Z is used for rewards, payments and governance.

• Supply allocated across community, ecosystem and contributors.

• Contributors providing bandwidth and hardware earn 2Z.

Pros:

• Network latency is a real constraint on blockchain performance that software optimisation cannot fix.

• Physical infrastructure is a genuine moat, unlike most crypto projects.

• Direct relevance to Solana and other high-throughput chains.

Cons:

• Building physical network infrastructure is capital intensive and slow.

• Dedicated routing between validators reduces the geographic distribution that decentralisation depends on.

• Depends on validators choosing to route through it.

• Exposure to physical network infrastructure for blockchains.

• Addresses a constraint that software cannot.

• Weigh the tension between reduced latency and validator decentralisation.

• Dedicated fibre links between validators, addressing a physical latency constraint that no protocol-level optimisation can remove.

• Blockchain performance is limited by how fast validators can communicate, which the public internet caps.

• Private routing removes that ceiling, at some cost to how distributed the validator set can be.

• Founded by Austin Federa, previously at the Solana Foundation, with Mateo Ward and Andrew McConnell.

• Backed by Multicoin Capital and Dragonfly.

• No public ICO. Distributed through ecosystem and community allocations in 2025.

• Physical infrastructure is capital intensive and slow to deploy.

• Concentrating validator routing reduces geographic decentralisation.

• Adoption depends on validators opting in.

• Early stage with limited network coverage.