BloXroute is a blockchain scalability infrastructure service called a Blockchain Distribution Network (BDN). It could be compared to a content delivery network (CDN), but for decentralized systems. It is being developed by BloXroute Labs, which was founded by Uri Klarman, Emin Gun Sirer, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, and Soumya Basu in 2017.
BloXroute is a layer-0 infrastructure because it sits beneath the blockchain layer and does not require changes to consensus or protocol of the blockchain. Instead, miners point their software to bloXroute nodes which then propagate transactions to other bloXroute nodes. These nodes use a variety of networking efficiencies from traditional computing systems such as system wide caching and cut-through routing to increase throughput. The infrastructure is blockchain agnostic and could theoretically be used by any blockchain system.
The bloXroute system maintains a variety of procedures to maintain neutrality such that all transactions are treated equally and fairly by the system. Content of transactions is encrypted and transactions are indirectly relayed so that individual nodes cannot be blacklisted or targeted.
The company has committed to open sourcing all code, allowing nodes and the community to verify behavior of gateways, and if potentially fork the system if any specific servers are compromised or malfunctioning.
The business model for bloXroute includes the sale of a ERC-20 token called BLXR. The token is designed around a transaction fee model in which essentially users and miners agree to pay bloXroute a small fee to use the network in exchange for improved performance. The BLXR token is intended to be used as an investment vehicle into this fee model system.
Timeline
People
Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
Chief Architect, Founder
Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
Founder
Brooke Walter
Employee
Bruce Maggs
Advisor
Bruce Maggs
Advisor
Eleni Steinman
Employee
Emin Gun Sirer
Chief Scientist, Founder
Injong Rhee
Advisor
Jeff Bussgang
Board of Directors
Josephine Bellini
Employee
Kevin Chen
Employee
Konstantin Lebedev
Employee
Naval Ravikant
Advisor
Naval Ravikant
Advisor
Nissa Szabo
Communit Manager
Robert Belson
Employee
Sarit Markovich
Advisor
Sarit Markovich
Advisor
Sergey Ilin
Employee
Shane van Coller
Employee
Soumya Basu
CTO, Founder
Uri Klarman
CEO, Founder
Uri Klarman
Founder
Yaara Lavi
Employee
Further reading
bloXroute Technical Review
Andre Cronje
Blog
Why FIBRE, Falcon and Other Blockchain Scalability Solutions Are Not Enough.
bloXroute Labs
Blog
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
#248 Uri Klarman: bloXroute - Layer-0 Scaling with the Blockchain Distribution Network
Aug 15, 2018