1/ Before TCP/IP, the internet was unreliable. Networks were fragmented, connections were easily interrupted, and trust was limited. According to a conversation between Lava Network contributor @yaircleper and MIT professor @alex_pentland👇, blockchains today face similar challenges at the access layer. 2/ Early networks were fragmented. The failure of a single node could disrupt communication, making large-scale coordination impractical. TCP/IP introduced standardized routing and fallback paths, transforming fragile systems into reliable global infrastructure. 3/ Today's blockchains face similar problems at the access layer. Many applications still rely on centralized or static RPC endpoints, leading to: • Single point of failure • Opaque routing decisions • Performance degradation under load 4/ As Sandy Pentland points out, trustworthy systems require a reliable underlying architecture. AI agents and applications must run on infrastructure where data integrity, provenance, and access remain predictable under high load. This is where the infrastructure bottleneck lies. 5/ Lava Network solves this problem at the access layer. It aggregates independent service providers, continuously measures their service quality, and routes each request in real time to the best-performing node. Just as TCP/IP enabled the internet to scale, Lava Network provides an always-on, resilient layer for blockchain access.