Friday once again, which means it is time for your Cartesi Weekly, with a roundup of what happened across the ecosystem this week 🐧
The latest monthly recap from L2BEAT is out, highlighting key technical developments across the L2 landscape. Check out the Cartesi excerpt here: → https://x.com/l2beat/status/2028472035152654589
How much more powerful could DeFi be if it could rely on traditional libraries? A new tutorial dropped showing how easy it is to integrate NumPy, enabling advanced numerical computing, matrix operations, and scientific calculations directly in your dApp. With the Cartesi VM, if it runs on Linux, it can run onchain: → https://x.com/cartesiproject/status/2029557685969170605
DevAd Lead João Garcia continues his series exploring why DeFi works the way it does today and how it can evolve. The latest episode dives into Cartesi’s ability to enable stateful application logic that can match TradFi-level performance while moving beyond typical L1 constraints. → https://x.com/joaopdgarcia/status/2028818702242656630
Head over to YouTube to catch the rest of the shorts if you missed them: → https://www.youtube.com/@Cartesiproject/shorts
And speaking of L1 constraints, check out a thread we put out benchmarking the compute power of the Cartesi VM. Think more useful instructions per block, greater throughput, more compute cycles, and the versatility to run a full Linux OS.
It is time to build by leveraging the progress already made in mainstream software, with all that compute dedicated to your own dApp thanks to the appchain framework, without competing for shared resources: → https://x.com/cartesiproject/status/2029210293847638026
@everyone Why most DeFi can’t deliver real innovation?
Yellow dot? L1 EVM block compute limit. Devs compress logic into one block and ship simplified finance.
Blue squares? Cartesi VM. Orders of magnitude more computational capacity.
Once you see the gap, you can’t unsee the constraint. Think of it as the difference between a smart contract that does basic math and a fully stateful, adaptive financial system on a full Linux stack.
Plus, unlike Ethereum’s global cap, where all apps compete for blockspace, each Cartesi app gets its own VM with dedicated resources.
Let's stop designing around limits and start building onchain for true potential with traditional compute power via the Cartesi VM: https://docs.cartesi.io/get-started/cartesi-machine/