Zilliqa Aims To Tackle Slow Crypto Speeds

If anything showed up the fragility of the Ethereum blockchain it was CryptoKitties. The fun, collectible game congested the blockchain so badly that transactions were taking several hours to process and costs skyrocketed for the ‘birthing fee’ of the kitties from 0.002 ETH to 0.015 ETH.

For all the promise of blockchain, one of the most crippling aspects is the speed of transactions. Currently, roughly a maximum of 10 transactions is possible every second across Bitcoin or Ethereum blockchains. When compared with corporate real-life examples of Visa, which…