Fauna’s Off-Chain Data Storage For DApps

The blockchain landscape has seen tremendous growth due to the emergence of decentralized applications or DApps. These are applications built on top of Layer 1 blockchains like Ethereum, that execute from programmed code called smart contracts. They perform conditions that process transactions on the network, with finality determined by the underlying blockchain. This introduces the idea of programmable finance that runs over a trustless decentralized network, which doesn’t require a third party (e.g. banks). Despite the success DApps have had on Ethereum and other blockchains (e.g. BSC, Polygon, Solana), there are limitations to their performance. The most critical issue has to do with speed. Reading data from…...