Target: Developers, Infrastructure VCs, and L1 maximalists. Core Concept: Why TPS is a vanity metric and why Rialo “Connectivity-First” architecture is the 2026 standard.

1/ The “TPS Arms Race” of 2021-2025 was a distraction. We built chains capable of 100k TPS, yet Web3 adoption stalled. Why? Because we ignored the silent killer: Cumulative Friction. 🧵👇

2/ What is Cumulative Friction? It’s the hidden tax of fragmentation. To build a “fast” dApp today, you need:

• An L1 for execution.
• An Oracle for data.
• An Indexer for history.
• A Bridge for liquidity. Each layer adds latency, cost, and trust assumptions.

3/ If your L1 has 200ms finality but your Indexer takes 5 seconds to update and your Oracle costs $1,000/day, your app is still slow, expensive, and fragile. Your system is only as fast as its slowest component.

4/ Enter @RialoHQ. Rialo isn’t trying to win the TPS war. It’s aiming to win the Convergence War. It treats the blockchain not as a siloed ledger, but as a “Real-World Programmable Network.”

5/ The Rialo Thesis: Web3 apps must feel as seamless as Uber or Instagram. But you can’t build Uber if the GPS (Data), the Payment (Finance), and the Notification (Reactivity) live on different, disconnected islands.

6/ Rialo introduces the Supermodular Stack. Unlike “Modular” designs that increase complexity by splitting layers, Rialo’s Supermodular approach ensures that execution, connectivity, and privacy reinforce each other.

7/ Let’s talk about Native Web Connectivity. In legacy chains, calling an API is a sin—it’s non-deterministic. Rialo changes the game by enshrining HTTPS calls directly into the protocol’s core instructions.

8/ Imagine writing a smart contract that fetches the weather, verifies a Stripe payment, or checks a TikTok follower count with a single line of code. No Oracles. No middleware. No “Oracle Tax.” This is pure, direct connectivity.

9/ This architectural shift drastically reduces the Developer Overhead. Current devs spend 10% of their time on business logic and 90% wrestling with 3rd party integrations. Rialo flips the script.

10/ From a research perspective, Rialo addresses the “Double Marginalization” problem. By removing intermediaries, we remove multiple layers of fees and profit-taking, making decentralized apps finally cost-competitive with Web2.

11/ Why does this matter for 2026? Because the “Crypto-Native” bubble has burst. To survive, we need apps that solve real-world problems for regular people who don’t care about “gas” or “nonces.”

12/ Rialo is the “Smartphone Moment.” Just as the iPhone converged the camera, the phone, and the internet into one ergonomic device, Rialo converges Execution, Data, and Real-World Access into one ergonomic network.

13/ This isn’t just an L1; it’s a foundational upgrade for the internet. If you are tired of building “houses of cards” on top of fragmented chains, it’s time to look at the Rialo Docs.

14/ Stay tuned for Part 2 this afternoon, where we dive into the RISC-V Execution Engine—the literal brain of Rialo that makes all this possible.

15/ Dig deeper: rialo.io/docs #Rialo #Web3Infrastructure #RWA #DeFi #Connectivity

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