Discussing necessity/possibility of scaling solutions in Terra.
Terra’s major defi protocols are just starting to launch or mature. Mars’ successful launch is paving the way for complex verticals like Levana, and the integration of mirror, nebula, and vertex will throw the door wide open for a cohesive on-chain perps, options, and forex system. The futures and forex markets have the largest volume out of all asset-classes. Terra being so well positioned means that it is going to attract a shit ton of traffic.
Terra does not have a clear scaling roadmap. There is no plan for vertical solutions such as rollups or data availability layers. Furthermore, Celestia has said that it is simply not compatible with Terra so something like Cevmos (celestia on evmos) is not feasible. There is also
no horizontal design such as Avalanche’s subnets. Although Cosmos’ app-chain vision is horizontal, it is highly unlikely that the major Terra dapps will become their own app-chain as this would cause composability and latency issues which would not be tolerated by high-frequency traders.
Tendermint blockchains have not really faced any scaling issues so far (with the exception of Secret), but this can be attributed to the fact that they have not really been stress tested to the same degree as the other blockchains, and the validator set is quite small (It is worth noting that the validators are not being paid any inflationary rewards which is super awesome for the longevity of the protocol). Terra will eventually need to expand its validator set and at some point, state bloat will become too great and Terra network will become congested. I want to know if there was is anything being done to prepare for this situation, and whether there is any possibility of RADs or even historical expiration mechanism like Ethereum is considering.
I don’t have the technical knowledge to offer an opinion on what the best way to approach this is, but want to make sure that some discussion about this topic is happening.