Rialo Quiz 28.0 #3 @RialoHQ @RialoKorea What is described as a major developer pain point? 1️⃣ Too many users interacting 2️⃣ Writing smart contracts only 3️⃣ Running expensive indexers and infrastructure 4️⃣ Lack of blockchain languages The answer is 3️⃣ Running expensive indexers and infrastructure. Building a blockchain application is not always limited to writing the smart contract itself. Once an application needs to understand what is happening onchain, developers often need additional infrastructure around the blockchain. For example, an application may need to: Monitor events → collect data → index blockchain state → query that data → trigger application logic This creates another layer between the application and the underlying blockchain. Indexers are useful because they make blockchain data easier for applications to retrieve and use. But maintaining this infrastructure can introduce additional operational requirements and costs. This connects closely with one of the economic concepts discussed in Rialo's materials: Double Marginalization in Crypto. When applications depend on multiple layers of middleware, each layer can introduce its own cost. Feeds, indexing, scheduling, bridging, and other middleware can become separate components that an application has to integrate and maintain. That creates a broader architecture: Application → Middleware → Blockchain Rialo's approach is to provide more of these capabilities as native infrastructure. Rialo Stream provides native data feeds for DeFi and RWAs. Rialo Read Path provides direct access to validator data and state. Rialo Execution Engine provides event-driven and conditional execution. Rialo Workflow provides native automation for complex workflows. And Rialo Interop provides native interoperability rather than requiring applications to build every connection independently. The same idea appears in Rialo's discussion of the “middleware tax.” The issue is not simply that developers have to write more code. It is that an application can become dependent on an expanding collection of external systems just to obtain data, monitor state, execute actions, and connect different environments. So when the quiz asks about a major developer pain point, the answer is: 3️⃣ Running expensive indexers and infrastructure. And this connects directly to Rialo's architecture: bringing data access, execution, automation, interoperability, and other application infrastructure closer to the blockchain itself can reduce the number of external components developers need to coordinate.