# INTRO Blockchain offers an innovative solution for safe and decentralized payment transfers. The cryptocurrencies developed with the aid of blockchain technology have fairly revolutionized the way we have been making transactions and has infused a level of security and transparency which otherwise is regulated and controlled. Ethereum, goes beyond being just a platform for peer to peer digital currency transfer and offers greater flexibility and wider application of the blockchain technology through smart contracts. This has made it one of the most popular blockchain and has led to exponentially increased traffic in recent years on its blockchain. With smart contract several other cryptocurrencies have been developed on top of Ethereum’s blockchain and a lot of businesses rely on this technology for their business transactions and day to day transfers.The major issue with these developments is that it has adversely affected the transaction processing speed of the Ethereum blockchain which in turn poses a viable that to the scalability of this technology. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://etw.gitbook.io/ethereum-white/intro.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.