Supra is building the IntraLayer, a vertically integrated blockchain stack that includes a Layer 1, Oracles, Bridges, VRF, and a Virtual Machine.
With emerging rollapps and appchains, liquidity is fragmented across several ecosystems. The IntraLayer aims to leverage vertical integration to solve for fragmented liquidity and provide a host of in-protocol services that could be used to create DApps that aren’t siloed within a single ecosystem.
Vertical integration involves having multiple infrastructure components run on the same set of nodes. While this puts heavy performance demands on nodes, Supra’s Tribe and Clan architecture is designed to delegate and dynamically allocate node resources across different infrastructure components. The underlying infrastructure is run on Supra’s Moonshot consensus protocol, which could reduce the required number of active nodes.
In this report, we will go over IntraLayer’s components and how they work in tandem. We will review the benefits and concerns of a vertically integrated stack.
