The Scaling Bottleneck Beyond DAG Consensus When Parallelism Isn't Enough
Abstract
This article does not propose changes to consensus, relaxation of safety guarantees, orearly finality mechanisms.It identifies a structural limit that appears after parallelism succeeds. Naming this limitclarifies where further scaling effort must focus and draws a clear boundary betweenproblems already solved and those that remain.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Distributed systems and fault tolerance
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Advanced Database Systems and Queries
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Publication date
- 7 February 2026
- Document type
- Preprint