How Zero Blockchain Cracked 2M TPS Without Sacrificing Decentralization

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Laura Shin

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🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Thank you to our sponsors! Figure Crypto Tax Girl LayerZero Labs is making bold promises with its coming Zero Blockchain. 2 million transactions per second per node. A thousandth of a penny per transaction. No compromises to decentralization. The big question is how?! In this Unchained podcast episode, LayerZero Labs CEO Bryan Pellegrino explains how the team was able to crack scalability by fixing blockchain storage and rethinking the crypto industry's approach to zero knowledge technology. With the blockchain already boasting partners such as Citadel Securities, DTCC and ICE, will Zero be the blockchain institutions decide to build on? Guest: Bryan Pellegrino, Co-founder & CEO of LayerZero Labs Links: LayerZero Foundation Buys Back 5% of ZRO Token Supply From Early Investors PayPal’s PYUSD Integrates LayerZero to Expand Across Blockchains The LayerZero/Wormhole Bidding War Shows How to Value a Crypto Business LayerZero Fought the Sybils and Airdropped Its Token. Did the Team Win? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think one thing is we just had very deeply understood the scaling approaches that everybody else is trying. Like what works and what doesn't work, right? And again, we believed early up, like, oh, like, EVM is just slow. It was just common. EVM is slow. And then once we start working on these other systems, once we went very deep in Aptus, we went very deep in Salon, we went very deep in the others, just like, oh, it's actually like the storage layer is one of the primary things
0:23.1	constraining like almost every chain. We went very deep in Sala. We went very deep in the others. It was like, oh, it's actually like the storage layer is one of the primary things
0:23.0	constraining like almost every chain.
0:25.2	And once we had this original insight around QMDB, we made this storage layer that now
0:30.3	is new, 3 million updates per second.
0:36.5	Welcome to Unchained, you're an no-hyped resource for all things crypto.
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