Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how fintech is disrupting the financial industry. While blockchain technology promises transparency and ...

The term Layer 1 refers to the underlying blockchain architecture in the blockchain ecosystem. However, transaction speed suffers when the mainnet gets busy, causing costly transactions to the end ...

Scott Nevil is an experienced writer and editor with a demonstrated history of publishing content for Investopedia. He goes in-depth to create informative and actionable content around monetary policy ...

Distributed ledger technology has the potential to solve some of the most prominent problems in the global economy, such as providing financial services to the 1.7 billion people that comprise the ...

Ethereum ecosystem scaling has moved from theory to actual production-grade infrastructure. Optimistic Rollups, ZK Rollups, major Layer 1 upgrades like The Merge and The Dencun upgrade (EIP-4844), and ...

For more than 20 years we have been using Layer 3 connectivity powered by dynamic routing protocols to route traffic between data centers, but adoption of virtualization and geo-clustering ...

Learning how to deal with a combined extreme/cisco environment that was not running any type of layer 2 loop protocols. I've been experimenting with stpd configuration on the extreme side, but I am ...