The cryptocurrency landscape has moved beyond simply scaling its transaction speeds. Now, projects are looking at fundamental design. While platforms like Ondo Finance and Mantle have addressed key limitations in their respective approaches to building a blockchain, BlockDAG is challenging the very foundation of these systems with a groundbreaking new model. By blending a Directed Acyclic Graph framework with Proof-of-Work consensus, it’s proposing a fresh structure for Layer 1 blockchains that emphasizes speed, robustness, and decentralization without typical limitations. As user and capital flows increase, the focus shifts from which project can scale to which one is fundamentally better designed from the start. BlockDAG has taken a bolder approach by questioning the established ways of building blockchain networks.