Bits, Bytes & Beyond: Sweet dreams are made of RPCs | Ep.10

Blockchain has moved far beyond cryptocurrency. Today, it’s powering some of the most demanding infrastructure workloads in the world, pushing networks, storage and compute architectures to their limits. From high-performance validators and RPC platforms to real-time analytics and AI-powered systems, the future of blockchain depends on the strength of the infrastructure beneath it.

In episode 10 of Bits, Bytes & Beyond, Trent Blakely s joined by Omar Abi Issa, Global Sales Director – Blockchain, Web3 & AI at OVHcloud, to explore how blockchain infrastructure is evolving, what it takes to operate at scale and why network architecture has become a critical differentiator.

Together, they discuss:

• What the convergence of AI and blockchain could mean for global networks, data sovereignty and the future of digital trust.
• Why blockchain infrastructure has become a full-stack systems engineering challenge.
• The network, storage and latency bottlenecks that emerge when blockchain systems move from theory into production.
• What healthy decentralisation looks like in practice, and the trade-offs between performance, cost and resilience.
• Why migrating from public cloud to dedicated infrastructure requires a complete architectural rethink.
• How multi-chain analytics platforms are combining bare metal, private networking and cloud-native orchestration to deliver real-time insights.

As blockchain adoption accelerates, the infrastructure supporting it is becoming just as important as the applications built on top of it.

If you want to understand where blockchain networks are headed next, tune in now:

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