Key ideas from Bryan Pellegrino

• Zero achieves 2 million TPS through heterogeneous architecture with light validators and powerful block producers, eliminating compute replication across all nodes
• "The big unlock with Zero is that everything is part of the same system... The whole stack is one unified blockchain" - Rez
• Zero's four proprietary systems (QMDB, FAFO, SVID, Jolt) solve storage, scheduling, networking, and ZK proving bottlenecks from first principles
• Major institutions like Citadel, DTCC, and Tether are building zones on Zero, driven by fear of disruption and pure P&L opportunities
• "We are extremely confident this is the single best collection of ZK talent on the planet" - Brian on their research team
• Zero launches three zones: EVM-compatible general purpose, privacy payments, and 24/7 global trading markets
• Layer Zero processed $138 billion in payments last year, at one point moving 5.5x Western Union's volume in a single month
• Zero's approach moves the industry roadmap forward by a decade, achieving Ethereum's 2035 goals of 10K TPS today at millions of TPS