Making blockchains faster has usually meant asking validators to do more work. World Chain wants to change that.
The Ethereum Layer-2 network has become the first production blockchain to deploy streamed EIP-7928 block access lists, a new approach that allows validators to begin verifying transactions while blocks are still being assembled instead of waiting for the finished block to arrive.
The feature will go live on World Chain Mainnet on August 17 and is designed to tackle one of blockchain's biggest technical challenges: increasing throughput without making it more expensive to run a validator.
Scaling Without Raising the Hardware Bar
As blockchain activity grows, validators are typically expected to process larger blocks using increasingly powerful hardware.
Over time, that can make running a node more expensive, concentrating validation among operators with greater computing resources. World Chain's implementation approaches the problem differently.
Instead of verifying every transaction one after another once a block is complete, validators receive a continuous stream of transaction access data every 200 milliseconds through the network's Flashblocks architecture.
That allows verification work to begin immediately and lets independent transactions be processed in parallel across multiple CPU cores. The result is lower validation latency while keeping hardware requirements broadly unchanged.
Targeting One Gigagas Per Second
According to internal benchmarking, the system maintained stable validation performance while increasing throughput to as much as one gigagas per second using standard cloud infrastructure.
While the figure comes from internal testing rather than public mainnet performance, it suggests blockchain throughput can continue increasing without requiring validators to continually upgrade computing resources.
That matters because validator accessibility remains one of the key factors supporting decentralization. If only high-performance servers can validate the network, participation naturally becomes concentrated among fewer operators.
Deploying Before Ethereum
The launch also puts World Chain ahead of Ethereum's own implementation timeline. Ethereum developers plan to introduce EIP-7928 as part of the future Glamsterdam upgrade.
World Chain is deploying the proposal today through a runtime flag rather than waiting for a network-wide hard fork, allowing node operators to upgrade before the August 17 activation date.
If successful, the rollout could provide practical data that informs Ethereum's own implementation.
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Scaling Ethereum's Future
The launch reflects a broader challenge facing Ethereum and Layer-2 networks. Demand for cheaper transactions continues rising across stablecoin payments, decentralized finance, identity and AI applications.
Improving throughput is only part of the equation. The bigger challenge is doing so without making blockchain participation more expensive.
By allowing validators to verify transactions while blocks are still being built, World Chain believes it can increase network capacity without sacrificing one of blockchain's core principles: keeping validation accessible enough that anyone can independently verify the chain.
Reporting by Lidia Yadlos
