Recently, the market has experienced severe fluctuations, plunging into extreme panic. However, just a few days ago, the DoubleZero Foundation announced it had secured a $28 million investment led by Dragonfly and Multicoin Capital. This news quickly attracted attention. What makes DoubleZero unique enough to gain capital favor in the current sluggish market environment?

Just yesterday, DoubleZero's founder, Austin Federa, appeared on NYSE TV live to discuss how Double Zero is innovating internet infrastructure, only for Twitter to crash during the broadcast.

He jokingly tweeted that it was like the universe giving them a "perfect product demonstration." This tweet carried a hint of sarcasm, suggesting that the current internet infrastructure indeed has bottlenecks, and Double Zero might be the solution.

Double Zero: A Dark Horse in DePIN

Double Zero is a project based on the DePIN track, allowing anyone to contribute independent fiber links without permission, essentially laying down an "information highway" for the Web3 world. The project's biggest highlight is its hardware-driven nature, directly targeting the infrastructure layer. DoubleZero's goal is simple: to increase bandwidth and reduce latency for all high-performance blockchains.

The project quickly garnered industry attention due to its unique technical vision and the high-profile background of its team, being regarded as an important narrative within the Solana ecosystem and the DePIN field.

Led by Solana Veteran Austin Federa, Double Zero Comes with a Halo

For a project to break through, it not only needs technical strength but also a core figure who can mobilize resources and drive narratives. One reason Double Zero attracted market attention right from the start is its chief founder—Austin Federa.

Those familiar with the Solana ecosystem will certainly recognize him. He was the Head of Strategy at the Solana Foundation and can be considered one of the key drivers behind Solana's early rise. His close relationships with the Solana core team (including Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal) allowed Double Zero to gain resource support and market recognition from the Solana ecosystem early on.

During his time at the Solana Foundation, he was not only responsible for global market strategy but also directly involved in the implementation of several key projects, such as promoting the integration of USDC and USDT on Solana, and even deeply participating in ecosystem collaborations during the FTX era. In other words, Austin played a crucial role in Solana's growth from an emerging public chain to an industry giant.

Now, Austin brings his experience, connections, and deep understanding of blockchain to Double Zero, stepping out of Solana to take the helm. This not only places Double Zero at a higher starting point but also instantly raises market expectations for the project.

From a technical vision perspective, Double Zero and Solana are also closely aligned. Some even view Double Zero as an important piece in the Solana DePIN narrative. Rather than seeing Double Zero as an independent DePIN project, it can be viewed as Solana's "field upgrade" in the DePIN domain.

The New Darling of the Capital Market

If you are familiar with the investment landscape in the crypto space, you will know the significant influence of Dragonfly and Multicoin. They are not only long-term supporters of the Solana ecosystem but have also played important roles in several key projects (for example, Multicoin's early bet on Solana and Dragonfly's participation in Serum).

In addition to top VCs, the funding power within the Solana ecosystem also played a core role in this round of financing. Solana Ventures and Solana Labs co-founders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal also participated as angel investors. What does this mean?

The Solana official is personally supporting the project, indicating that Austin is not going it alone but is entering the market with the entire Solana resource pool, leading to a comprehensive tilt of funds, technology, and market resources. For the entire DePIN track, this is undoubtedly an important signal: the Solana ecosystem is actively laying out physical infrastructure networks, and Double Zero may be the "vanguard" leading the charge.

Technical Highlights: Is the Dual-Ring Architecture a Super Accelerator?

The DoubleZero network optimizes the blockchain system through two key enhancements: first, it pre-filters incoming junk and duplicate transactions using dedicated hardware, reducing the burden on validators and allowing the blockchain to share filtering resources without requiring each validator to provide them individually. Second, it improves communication efficiency through clear message routing, tracking, and priority management.

The outer ring connects to the public internet, using hardware (such as FPGAs) for attack protection, signature verification, and transaction filtering; the inner ring processes the filtered traffic through dedicated bandwidth lines and constructs consensus.

The core technical highlight of Double Zero lies in its unique Two-Ring Architecture. The Outer Ring connects to the public internet, using hardware (such as FPGAs) for attack protection, signature verification, and transaction filtering, while the Inner Ring processes the filtered traffic through dedicated bandwidth lines and constructs consensus.

The Outer Ring serves as the first line of defense, primarily responsible for filtering out junk transactions, DDoS attacks, and invalid traffic from malicious contract calls. It employs an adaptive traffic filtering mechanism that uses machine learning and heuristic rules to analyze transaction patterns in real-time, accurately identifying and intercepting malicious traffic, ensuring that only valid transactions can enter the blockchain mainnet.

At the same time, the Outer Ring relies on decentralized, permissionless fiber contributions from independent contributors in the network to further ensure the authenticity and priority of data packets. All transactions must undergo basic validity screening by the Outer Ring before entering the Inner Ring, reducing invalid transactions from entering the core network and enhancing overall processing efficiency.

Transactions entering the Inner Ring have undergone strict screening, allowing it to focus on efficient transaction processing. The Inner Ring adopts a high-performance architecture similar to Solana, supporting ultra-high TPS (transactions per second) and ensuring extremely short transaction confirmation times to meet the demand for a large volume of transactions.

To further enhance network smoothness, Double Zero also employs a stateless validation model, a lightweight transaction processing method that, compared to traditional blockchain state storage models, allows the entire network to operate more smoothly and efficiently.

Advantages Over Traditional Layer 1 and Rollup Solutions

Compared to traditional Layer 1 and Rollup solutions, Double Zero exhibits significant advantages. First, through the prior filtering of the Outer Ring, Double Zero effectively reduces the impact of junk transactions, lowering the risk of block congestion and avoiding inefficient Mempool queuing methods seen in public chains like Ethereum. Unlike Rollup solutions, Double Zero independently optimizes the network layer, eliminating the need to wait for batch processing cycles, significantly accelerating transaction confirmation speeds and avoiding unnecessary delays.

As Multicoin Capital's managing partner Kyle Samani stated: "Due to public internet bandwidth limitations and non-deterministic routing, if the latency issue between validators is not resolved, a Web2-like smooth experience cannot be achieved." — this is precisely Double Zero's mission.

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