Finding a solution for the prohibitive cost of RAM would open up the EOS blockchain for a rich set of complex, interactive dApps to materialize and scale.
In July, following the mainnet launch, the price of EOS RAM shot up to over $4 million a gigabyte, while ordinary RAM purchased elsewhere a mere $11 per GB. Since all the information needs to be replicated across every node on the network, the cost of adding a gigabyte of RAM has to be multiplied by the number of nodes. Furthermore, precious RAM resources are limited in supply, with a current total of 93GB available for the entire network. All it takes is a handful of dApps needing gigabytes of RAM and the supply becomes completely drained while the price of RAM skyrockets, making it inaccessible to most dev teams.
Soon, every single dApp developer will be able to scale their applications.
https://medium.com/@liquideos/unpacking-ram-the-scarce-database-of-the-eos-blockchain-e6315fadd9ee
