Rialo: A New Paradigm of Blockchain Connecting the Real World

Although blockchain technology has garnered widespread attention in the financial and investment sectors, its application remains limited to the cryptocurrency domain, with a clear disconnect from real-world services, data, and user habits. Developers also hope to focus on business logic rather than spending a significant amount of energy on technical details such as integrating oracles, maintaining nodes, or handling off-chain data.

In this context, Rialo emerges as a blockchain platform oriented towards the real world. Its goal is to break down the barriers between blockchain and the real world, enabling development teams to easily build blockchain applications suitable for production environments, just like developing Web2 applications. Rialo aims to seamlessly integrate blockchain technology into people's daily lives, just like smartphones.

Positioning and Features of Rialo

Rialo is developed by Subzero Labs, and its positioning goes beyond the traditional Layer 1, Layer 2, or Layer 3 frameworks, with the full name "Rialo isn't a layer 1". Ade Adepoju, co-founder of Subzero Labs, likens Rialo to the evolution from iPod to iPhone, emphasizing its multifunctional integration features.

The core goal of Rialo is to lower the barrier to entry for using Blockchain, allowing developers from non-crypto fields to easily build applications. Its most notable feature is "native connection to the real world":

• Developers can directly call web information in smart contracts without relying on third-party oracles.
• Users can log in using familiar identity methods such as social accounts or email, without the need to learn complex wallet operations.

A certain investment institution explained its reasons for investing in Rialo, stating that Rialo has changed the focus of Blockchain L1 by embedding the core functionalities required by real-world developers directly into the protocol itself. Invocations, data flows, timers, and cross-chain operations have become native instructions, rather than relying on external calls. This means that traditional infrastructures such as oracles, cross-chain bridges, and indexers may no longer be necessary.

Team Background and Financing Situation

In early August this year, Subzero Labs announced the completion of a $20 million seed round financing, led by a well-known investment institution, with participation from several renowned venture capital firms and cryptocurrency exchanges. According to reports, this financing was completed in the first quarter of this year and involved equity and token warrants.

The team members of Subzero Labs have extensive industry experience, having worked at several tech giants and well-known Blockchain projects, covering areas such as Blockchain, artificial intelligence, distributed systems, and hardware.

• Co-founder and CEO Ade Adepoju: 30 years old, resident of New York, previously held engineering positions at several tech companies. Joined the crypto space at the end of 2021, participating in the early development of a well-known Blockchain project.

• Co-founder and CTO Lu Zhang: Previously worked as an engineer in a well-known Blockchain project.

Technical Features of Rialo

Although Rialo has not fully disclosed the details of its Blockchain architecture, the information that has been revealed indicates that its operating logic mainly revolves around the following aspects:

1. Integration of RISC-V with Solana VM Compatibility: Rialo is committed to reducing the reliance on middleware such as cross-chain bridges and oracles, and integrating RISC-V smart contracts with Solana VM compatibility. It is worth noting that the Ethereum community has recently been discussing replacing the EVM with the RISC-V architecture to enhance scalability and efficiency.

2. Developer-Friendly Technical Architecture: Rialo has embedded the capability of "real-world interaction" into its design. Developers can access real-time data through simple HTTPS calls in smart contracts, seamlessly integrating any off-chain API. Meanwhile, Rialo introduces mechanisms similar to traditional software development, such as "event-driven" and "asynchronous processing", making the programming experience of smart contracts closer to regular code development.

3. User Experience's "De-Blockchainization": Rialo plans to reconstruct the identity system, allowing users to log in with their email, SMS, or existing social identities as a Web3 passport. In addition, Rialo also supports encrypted message sending features. In terms of performance, Rialo claims to achieve sub-second transaction confirmation speeds and provides a stable and predictable fee mechanism, avoiding common issues such as gas fee spikes and sandwich attacks found in traditional public chains. At the same time, Rialo supports features familiar to Web2 users, such as two-factor authentication and scheduled transactions.

4. Ecological synergy, breaking the "on-chain and off-chain" barriers: Rialo's underlying protocol design supports direct interaction with various real-world services, such as payment systems, weather information, etc. This "native integration" capability enables applications on Rialo to cover a wider range of practical scenarios.

Outlook and Challenges

Rialo's vision is to make blockchain technology simple and easy to use, integrating it into daily life. However, to achieve this goal, Rialo still faces many challenges:

• How to maintain decentralization while connecting to the real world?
• How to balance decentralization and compliance requirements?
• How to find a balance between data openness and user privacy protection?

The resolution of these issues will directly impact whether Rialo can successfully achieve its vision of becoming a bridge between Blockchain and the real world.