At Futura Camp during Berlin Blockchain Week 2026, Coinspaid Dev executive Alexey Tulia highlighted a growing gap between blockchain protocol teams and infrastructure engineers, arguing that closer collaboration is essential for scalable systems.
As reported by Coinpedia, News covering the Futura Camp presentation, Tulia emphasized that protocol designers and infrastructure builders often work in parallel tracks, even though their feedback loops are critical for improving blockchain performance in real production environments.
Tulia’s core argument focused on the difference in perspective between the two groups. Protocol teams typically define long-term architecture and network evolution, while infrastructure engineers deal with operational realities such as congestion, latency, fee volatility, and cross-chain reliability. According to him, this separation leads to inefficiencies that only become visible once systems are deployed at scale.
He noted that blockchain systems have already moved beyond early-stage experimentation. The current challenge is not just innovation, but maintaining predictable and stable performance across multiple networks under real-world load conditions. Many issues, he added, emerge only when infrastructure is stress-tested in production environments.
A key point of his presentation was the need for stronger feedback loops between development layers. Infrastructure teams can identify bottlenecks in live systems, while protocol teams can respond with architectural improvements, but this exchange is often inconsistent or delayed.
Areas where better alignment could improve blockchain engineering include:
- more predictable transaction fee mechanisms
- improved support for native multisignature functionality
- standardized transaction metadata handling
- broader implementation of advanced protocol upgrades such as EIP-7702
Coinspaid Dev, where Tulia leads engineering initiatives, operates as a multi-disciplinary team focused on blockchain infrastructure, distributed systems, cloud technologies, and cybersecurity. The organization positions itself within the production layer of blockchain systems, where real-world performance challenges are most visible.
The discussion reflects a broader trend in blockchain engineering: as networks mature and scale across multiple ecosystems, collaboration between protocol design and infrastructure operation becomes increasingly important for ensuring reliability, efficiency, and long-term sustainability.