TL;DR From Annabelle Huang’s Deep Dive

TL;DR From Annabelle Huang’s Deep Dive

In this technical breakdown, Altius Co-Founder & CEO Annabelle Huang explains how Altius achieves giga-scale execution, VM-agnostic performance, and instruction-level parallelism - without requiring chains to migrate, fork, or adopt new languages.

Why Altius Isn’t Another L1/L2

Altius separates execution from consensus, upgrading chains through a modular execution layer. This supports a multi-chain future with many specialized chains — without fragmentation.

Execution Modularity Is the Next Frontier

Blockchain evolved from monolithic → modular (consensus, DA, settlement).

Altius extends this by decoupling execution as an independent, upgradeable component — enabling chains to scale without rearchitecting the base layer.

Web2-Level Performance, On-Chain

Altius targets performance comparable to centralized systems:

• Solana-level or higher throughput
• significantly lower latency
• stable finality
• no specialized hardware required

This is achieved by optimizing existing VMs rather than creating new ones.

Sharded, Memory-First State

Altius introduces a sharded database architecture that solves long-term state bloat and enables high-throughput execution on commodity machines improving decentralization and lowering costs for node operators.

Instruction-Level Parallelism

Unlike transaction-level concurrency, Altius parallelizes computation at the opcode level, resolving conflicts with granular precision.

This allows chains to jump from ~50M–250M gas/sec → 1–2 Giga gas/sec instantly.

Real Examples

• NFT mints: Altius reruns only the conflicting instruction (not the whole transaction), enabling massive concurrency.
• Order books & HFT: Web2-grade throughput enables real-time trading infrastructure natively on-chain.

VM-Agnostic Design

Altius supports EVM today, with SVM, MoveVM, and others enabled via a Rust interpreter/transpiler —- reducing fragmentation and improving developer experience across ecosystems.

Toward the Open Execution Network (OEN)

The long-term vision: a decentralized execution network where anyone can run execution on commodity hardware.

This unlocks horizontal scaling, cross-chain native operations, and more resilient infrastructure.

You can watch the full technical deep dive on the Altius Labs YouTube channel, where we publish weekly engineering content, AMAs, and updates on the Open Execution Network.

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