DoubleZero is one of the most audacious projects we’ve backed at Reciprocal. The thesis is simple: it will become the high-performance global networking stack for all blockchains. The @DoubleZero team looked at blockchains through the lens of an HFT firm and asked the question, “What would blockchains be capable of if they had a purpose-built, high-performance global fiber network?” The most performant trading systems in the world avoid the public internet at all costs, instead opting for private fiber links that offer direct routing, low jitter, and low latency. DoubleZero enables owners of high-performance private fiber (including trading firms, financial institutions, and big tech companies) to contribute excess bandwidth to the DoubleZero network. Blockchain validators can then opt into the DoubleZero network to utilize these private fiber links and reduce latency. Here are the numbers as DoubleZero launches its public Mainnet-Beta: -24.84% of Solana Mainnet Stake Weight on DZ -11 independent bandwidth contributors -40+ points of presence -70 high-performance links The opportunity for DoubleZero is huge. The secular growth story for onboarding commerce and capital markets to blockchain rails is just hitting an inflection point today. It’s impossible to predict which chain will have the most TVL or process the highest daily volume on-chain in ten years, but if we examine existing global capital markets, we know one thing for certain: performance matters. In modern capital markets, latency is measured in microseconds, nanoseconds, and picoseconds. DoubleZero is the infrastructure stack that will enable blockchains to handle this level of performance on a global scale. IBRL.