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Kent Lin discusses the importance of blockchain infrastructure for institutional adoption and the factors that contribute to its performance.

Blockchain infrastructure is becoming the real battleground for institutional adoption. As more capital, assets, and applications move on chain, the question is no longer whether blockchain technology has potential, but whether the underlying networks can deliver the speed, scalability, reliability, and security required for global finance. In this episode of Untangling Web3, Kent Lin, Co-Founder and COO of Optimum, explores what it takes to build infrastructure capable of supporting institutional-scale blockchain adoption. The conversation covers why performance matters under stress, how data propagation affects blockchain scalability, and why faster, more reliable networks are essential for the next phase of onchain markets. Key Highlights: Institutions Need Reliability, Not Hype: Institutional adoption depends on infrastructure that performs consistently under pressure. Banks, asset managers, and financial platforms care about latency, bandwidth, security, accountability, and downside risk — especially during volatile market conditions when blockchain networks are most likely to degrade. Speed and Scalability Start at the Network Layer: Optimum is building a universal data…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jack Davies, Alec Burns

Guest: Kent Lin

Topics covered

• blockchain infrastructure
• institutional adoption
• network performance
• data propagation
• scalability
• reliability
• global finance

Keywords

• blockchain
• infrastructure
• institutional adoption
• scalability
• reliability
• network performance
• data propagation
• Optimum

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Organizations: Optimum, MIT

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