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The Universal Language of Blockchain Networks: How Lava Protocol Works
The blockchain world has a language problem. Every chain speaks its own dialect, forcing developers to become polyglots or stick to their native chain. Lava Protocol says there’s a better way.
The Infrastructure Challenge
“When we jumped right in Web3 three and a half years ago… the infrastructure was shit,” says Yair Cleper, CEO of Lava Protocol. The numbers tell the story. With 2.6 million users in the last month and 80 billion on-chain interactions, Lava Protocol has become the translator between 40+ blockchain networks.
What Lava Protocol Actually Does
“RPC is the language of each and every blockchain,” Cleper explains. “Ethereum coming up with hundreds of different RPC APIs… Celestia is doing the same, Solana. Everyone has unique APIs that you can interact with the chain with them.”
Think of RPC (Remote Procedure Call) as the native language of each blockchain. Ethereum speaks Ethereum-RPC. Solana has its own dialect. Near Protocol? Different again. Lava Protocol acts as the universal translator.
The Developer Reality
“When you’re surfing the web and you type in Google? Do you know what is HTTPS? Do you know what is TCP/IP?” Cleper asks. “How come you build a scalable domain with millions and even billions of different dApps, when every dApp needs to answer those questions?”
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The Economic Engine
“Think about it – we started Lava as a Uber for nodes,” Cleper notes. “We find out that a lot of developers already running the nodes, but they don’t monetize them.” The incentive pools solution emerged from this insight, allowing chains to reward quality service providers.
Real World Impact
“Today, until Lava was in the picture, you need to go and find the providers, the data providers, in order to continue and expand to different chains,” says Cleper. “With Lava, with a single line of code, you have the access and you don’t need to worry about, is it scalable? What is the uptime? Is it reliable?”
The Technical Reality
“Today, Lava is available on more than 40 chains. And you see like an enormous number of 80 billion on-chain interactions,” Cleper states. The platform handles everything from RPC requests to minting and staking.
The Future of Blockchain Infrastructure
“The conversation about the infrastructure has to stop,” Cleper insists. “We need to focus on bringing millions of Telegram users to use it. We need to focus on bringing millions of social apps users to use it.”
Understanding the Scale
“We just came up with a dashboard that shows the regions that every user is interacting with,” Cleper shares. “From Hawaii to Japan, there are users that using Lava constantly.”
Developer Tools and Integration
“Every successful dApp is going multi-chain,” observes Clper. “So then I need to replicate what I do with Near, I need to go now to Solana, I need to go now to Ethereum. With Lava, with a single line of code, you have the access.”
The Road Ahead
“I would look for examples in web2 tech that can be easiest implemented into blockchains,” Cleper advises. “I would look for real use cases of a web2 enterprise, even government that can be much more efficient if implemented with blockchain.”
Who Benefits?
“The crypto protocols must shift from speculation to fundamentals,” Cleper states. “This is something that we’re excited that we in Lava, we are focused on the fundamentals. We focus on the utility.”
Conclusion
“Web3 in general has an amazing feature, which is decentralization,” Cleper concludes. “It’s not one person decides what’s going to change of the culture, but it’s a lot of small groups that create the trend.”
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