0. IntroductionFrom Bitcoin’s peer-to-peer consensus algorithm to Ethereum’s EVM to the idea of a Network State, one of the longstanding goals of the blockchain community is to build a world supercomputer, or more specifically, a unified state-machine that is decentralized, unstoppable, trustless, and scalable. While it has been known for a long time that all this is very theoretically possible, thus far, most of the ongoing efforts are very piecemeal and have severe tradeoffs and limitations...