The three major pain points of blockchain infrastructure: Why institutional-level trading remains difficult to achieve

2026-01-09 13:00:09

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【Crypto World】The wave of asset tokenization is coming fiercely, but there is a problem in front of us—the current blockchain simply cannot support a 24/7 global financial market.

Solayer Labs product leader Joshua Sum recently hit the nail on the head: low throughput limits, high transaction latency, and MEV chaos—these three major issues directly block the possibility of institutional-grade trading. Just think about it: placing a large order might take half a day to confirm, with arbitrageurs waiting to jump in and抢跑, anyone would feel exhausted.

To break through this situation, the blockchain industry needs a thorough infrastructure overhaul. We need to develop networks capable of processing over 100,000 transactions per second, with confirmation times in the sub-second range, and ensure fair transaction ordering so that algorithmic arbitrage has no opportunity. This is the true way to support borderless global finance.

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Liquidated_Larry

· 12h ago

MEV really can drive you crazy. Your big order gets front-run and completely cleaned out before it even gets confirmed.

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DefiPlaybook

· 23h ago

According to data, the current mainstream Layer 1 public chains have a TPS concentrated in the 1000-5000 range, which is several orders of magnitude away from the 100,000 transactions per second target mentioned in the article. It is worth noting that MEV losses account for 15-30% of institutional trading costs, which has become a practical obstacle. This can be analyzed from three dimensions: First, the throughput bottleneck stems from the design of the consensus mechanism; second, the ordering game requires innovation at the protocol layer; third, latency issues are related to network architecture. However, it must be acknowledged that existing Layer 2 solutions, while improved, are still not thorough enough.

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Web3ExplorerLin

· 01-09 13:24

hypothesis: the throughput bottleneck we're facing isn't just engineering, it's fundamentally a game theory problem where mev extraction incentivizes chaos over fairness... until we redesign the validator economics entirely, we're just slapping band-aids on a broken oracle layer tbh

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OneBlockAtATime

· 01-09 13:23

That's right, MEV really is the biggest stumbling block for institutional involvement. Now I can't help but envy it.

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ProofOfNothing

· 01-09 13:22

Damn, you're so right. MEV is just like cancer, constantly being front-run and it's so annoying.

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