Framing Cursor: Analogies

The Grocery Store Analogy

Imagine walking into a massive grocery store the size of a football field. You’re looking for a carton of oat milk—but instead of aisles, every product is just randomly scattered across the store. You’d have to walk row by row, shelf by shelf, just to find what you need.

Now imagine that same store is organized into clearly labeled sections: dairy, produce, snacks, beverages. You know oat milk is in the dairy section, so you go straight there. Even better, there’s a digital assistant at the front that gives you a map and points you to exactly the right shelf.

That’s what Framing Cursors do for the blockchain.

Instead of making nodes scan the entire “store” to find a piece of data, Framing Cursors let them jump directly to the right section—making the whole process faster, easier, and far more efficient.