Most blockchains today rely on a total order of transactions. While simple, this design is at odds with the real world: most transactions are not globally related and do not need to be processed in strict sequence. This mismatch invites problems like MEV, congestion, and poor geographic scalability. What if we embraced partial order instead?The DAG ModelIn a partially ordered system, transactions form a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) where edges represent dependencies (e.g., “this transaction d...

Most blockchains today rely on a total order of transactions. While simple, this design is at odds with the real world: most transactions are not globally related and do not need to be processed in strict sequence. This mismatch invites problems like MEV, congestion, and poor geographic scalability. What if we embraced partial order instead?The DAG ModelIn a partially ordered system, transactions form a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) where edges represent dependencies (e.g., “this transaction d...