May 19, 2026
The Cost of Uncertainty in Ethereum's PBS Hot Path
Chief Product Officer Sajida Zouarhi explores the hidden costs of uncertain propagation latency on Ethereum and how mump2p's speed and consistency improves the blockspace pipeline.
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Building the missing memory layer for web3
Blockchain technology has been heralded as the foundation of a new decentralized internet, now referred to as Web3.
Optimum CPO Sajida Zouarhi presents at EthCC[9]
Latency is not only UX; it shapes behavior & market structure....
Cracking Ethereum’s networking bottleneck
Optimum’s new propagation layer promises to reshape Ethereum’s validator economics, starting with better performance and higher staking yield, but pointing toward future protocol upgrades like shorter slot times.
Turbocharged Socials
To illustrate the speed and efficiency of different data propagation schemes we created a simulation comparing message delivery times across the same network.
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March 26, 2026
Optimizing a $100B Market: Effects of Latency Reduction on ETH Staking Revenue
In this article, we quantify the impact of network latency, and more specifically block propagation latency, on key performance indicators that directly determine a validator’s annual percentage rate (APR). Our central question is: to what extent do improvements in network latency translate into measurable APR gains for validator operators?
January 20, 2026
Flexnodes: A Global Network of Data Accelerators
Blockchain speed and throughput depends heavily on how fast and efficiently validators can communicate. They propose blocks, send them around to all the other validators, and agree on the updated state of the chain to achieve consensus. What if you could help them out?
December 11, 2025
Optimum CEO Muriel Médard Receives Prestigious IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
Optimum is proud to announce that our CEO and co-founder, Professor Muriel Médard, has been awarded the 2026 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal for her groundbreaking contributions to coding for reliable communications and networking.
December 9, 2025
Why Solana Needs Faster Data Propagation
Solana is renowned for its high throughput and sub-second block times, but speed isn’t just about how fast a leader can produce a block – it’s also about how quickly that data reaches every validator. In a network where slots last only ~400ms, even a 100ms delay in block propagation can be significant. This article dives into Solana’s block propagation stack (Turbine, ShredStream, JetStreamer), the limitations it faces, and why further accelerating data propagation (with RLNC-based propagation) is critical for Solana’s future scalability and reliability.
October 16, 2025
Behind the Metrics: mump2p's 6x Latency Win on Ethereum Hoodi Testnet
Optimum recently announced that mump2p is delivering 150ms average block propagation on Ethereum Hoodi testnet - 6x faster than Gossipsub's ~1 second baseline. This significant performance gain directly benefits validators with more time to attest, higher inclusion rates, and better performance during congestion, while improving overall chain efficiency and user experience. So how is this actually measured? Where do these numbers come from? This post walks through the technical implementation - the measurement methodology, the metrics architecture, and the validation approach that produces these results.
September 23, 2025
Acceleration: mump2p Early Results on Hoodi Testnet
Optimum enables validators to send data faster and more efficiently, in turn raising the scalability of the blockchain they operate on.
September 4, 2025
Decentralize To Scale: Infrastructure for an Onchain Digital Economy
Throughout blockchain history, scaling has been tethered to decentralization. Every chain has taken their own approach, but most can be boiled down to either “We make zero sacrifices to decentralization and we’ll work in some scaling where we can”, or “we’re fine with less decentralization, let’s maximize our performance instead”. Essentially the Ethereum vs. Solana debate in a nutshell, and the core concept of the blockchain trilemma. You can go faster by raising hardware requirements for validators, or keeping them confined to a geographical region, but even those approaches hit their limits.
August 20, 2025
The Gossip Protocol Problem - Why Your Blockchain Transactions Are Slow
Ever wonder why your transaction takes so long to confirm, even on a “fast” network? It turns out the culprit isn’t just block time or throughput, it’s how information spreads across the network...
July 30, 2025
Unlocking the Blockchain Trilemma
In decentralized blockchain implementations, three properties are highly desirable: decentralization, security, and scalability.
July 10, 2025
mump2p: Unlocking Next-Gen Performance for Tomorrow’s Killer Apps
Blockchains power everything from simple payments to complex financial markets, from AI training to inferencing.
June 12, 2025
Comparing the Performance of Optimump2p and Gossipsub
In peer-to-peer networks, nodes need to disseminate information to each other, a task known as gossip. Gossipsub is a widely-used algorithm to perform
June 6, 2025
Introducing mump2p: Implementation and Benefits
mump2p is coming. Currently in private testnet with a group of leading Ethereum validators and node operators, mump2p boosts the speed and efficiency of communicating data between nodes.
May 16, 2025
Battle of the Codes Pt II: RLNC Speedup
In the first part of this series, we explored how packet loss accumulates in block and fountain codes—even in simple network topologies such as daisy chains—and how the recoding capability of RLNC effectively mitigates this issue. In this follow-up article, we examine hierarchical topologies, such as trees, which have been adopted by Web3 protocols such as Monad and Solana. We present a simple example demonstrating that, even in tree-based architectures, RLNC can outperform both Raptor and Reed–Solomon (RS) codes by achieving lower latency.
April 30, 2025
Battle of the Codes: RLNC vs Reed-Solomon & Fountain Codes
Sending data over shaky or delayed connections often means it gets lost or delayed. The old way to deal with this was simply to resend anything that didn’t make it (like the TCP protocol does). But this approach has problems, especially on crowded networks where resending things just adds to the traffic jam and leads to further delays.
April 15, 2025
Introducing Optimum: Building the Missing Memory Layer for Web3
Blockchain technology has been heralded as the foundation of a new decentralized internet, now referred to as Web3. But as this "world computer" grows, it’s becoming increasingly clear that something fundamental is missing: a high-performance memory layer.