As the Fat Protocol thesis posits, value in blockchains would mostly accumulate at the base protocol layer rather than the application layer. For a while, this seemed to be true.

2017 was the year crypto boomed. In 2018 it crashed. 2019 will be a year of recovery, where mid-layer protocols define new value.

Layer 3 is not a feature add but a fundamental element of the blockchain architecture. It's what makes it scalable, secure, and future-proof.

We’ve called Map Protocol the “blockchain freeway for assets,” and that’s not a description we take lightly. Admittedly, it is an ambitious goal — making all blockchains interact with ...

The application layer is responsible for the user facing components, and the implementation layer refers to everything that brings the application to life, like protocols and code.

The set of protocols used in a communications network. A protocol stack is a prescribed hierarchy of software layers, starting from the application layer at the top (the source of the data being ...