# Elastic Scaling (fka Parachain Scaling by Parablock splitting) **URL:** \ **Category:** Tech Talk\ **Tags:** wasm\ **Created:** [September 12, 2022, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/elastic-scaling-fka-parachain-scaling-by-parablock-splitting/341 "2022-09-12T14:09:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 20
**Author:** ![0mm-mark](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.polkadot.network/0mm-mark/32/850_2.png) [@0mm-mark](https://forum.polkadot.network/u/0mm-mark)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 11:11pm UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/elastic-scaling-fka-parachain-scaling-by-parablock-splitting/341/20 "2022-12-12T23:11:44Z")
Possibly controversial, definitely left-field… > [@pepyakin](#): > > A parachain reaches the limits of throughput of a single slot. What options does it have? Reading this thread, and assuming no background knowledge, one can imagine a reader concluding that the Dotsama/Substrate tech-stack doesn’t scale. Weird (and wrong) because that is what it was designed to do - scale. The contradiction is resolved, at the expense of exposing another contradiction, by observing that this scalability issue is resolved (today) if your unit of development is a Relaychain and not a Parachain. You start off with your Relaychain having a single Parathread/Parachain and then you can scale up/out to all the Parathreads/Parachains that Relaychain can support. The second contradiction this exposes is: Why are people trying to develop a decentralized ecosystem via a centralized “choke-point” - Polkadot? But that is another topic I’ll link to when I’ve gathered my thoughts appropriately. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/elastic-scaling-fka-parachain-scaling-by-parablock-splitting/341)._