Introduction
N1 is a layer 1 blockchain designed from the ground up to support applications and horizontal scalability. Think Ethereum's roadmap without the baggage. Our key insight lies in avoiding consensus in almost all cases, providing more scale as the number of validators increases. Instead of using consensus to order all apps' transactions, transactions are instead unordered and asynchronous by default. Consensus is only introduced when bridging between apps. On top of that, data availability is built in and the network is execution environment agnostic, giving developers more freedom to tune performance.
Horizontal scalability
N1 has sharded data availability built-in, and each app operates independently of other apps except when bridging. The performance grows with the number of validators.
Native liquidity
N1 provides a native Solana bridge for transactions and assets, yielding high liquidity and greater security.
Virtual machine agnostic
N1 places no constraint on your execution environment. Anything you can define a verification procedure for, N1 can run. Not only SNARKs, but also consensus proofs.
Zero congestion
The single bottleneck is data availability. Every app operates in its own isolated environment, resulting in zero state congestion. No gas golfing, no state bloat.
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