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@apriori0x
apriori
17 days
Many users in the west onboarded to crypto last cycle because: (1) dissatisfaction with their jobs /legacy institutions (somewhat populist) (2) low interest rates and stimulus checks (3) the opportunity for generational wealth
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Will: Alright are we gonna have a problem? Clark: There's no problem. I was just hoping you could give me some insight into the evolution of the rollup-centric roadmap for Ethereum. My contention is that prior to the enshrined ZK-EVM endgame research, the scaling techniques,
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2 years
Some hypothetical @CelestiaOrg visualizations.
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apriori
2 years
@DCbuild3r Celestia, Fuel, Scroll, Flashbots, Starkware, Nomad, Osmosis, Evmos, Gauntlet
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apriori
5 months
Discussions about lack of real world use cases for crypto, along with handwringing about the need for applications beyond casinos, remain in vogue. However, we rarely see suggestions for new application types, mostly handwaving and complaints. 🧵
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apriori
5 months
Intents Newsletter: Volume 1 The Intents Newsletter will be a monthly publication and feature a curated collection of relevant research relating to intents, intent-centric protocols, and related literature. 🧵
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@apriori0x
apriori
1 year
2 years ago I was sitting on my couch watching ETH cc videos wondering how I’d ever get there. I just touched down in Paris. I don’t take any of this for granted. Blessed and humbled everyday to do something I love with an incredible team.
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apriori
2 years
Abstracted Visualization of @CelestiaOrg
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apriori
1 year
intents aren't real tl;dr - report on intents day >Intents: Past, Present & Future >Intents for Blockchains >Intents for Users >Intents for Solvers >Intents for Mathematicians >Intents Endgame: PsyOp
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Anoma
1 year
intents aren't real - comprehensive report on intents day 0
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apriori
11 months
This is not the SUAVE you are looking for tl;dr > Pt1. - Geographic Decentralization - Game Warping - Strategyproof Computing >Pt2. - SUAVE Architecture - SUAPPs
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@apriori0x
apriori
3 months
There are many kind, open-hearted, earnest, hardworking folks in the space trying to change the world. It's easy to critique and make salacious comments, but a lot harder to do the work. I have nothing but respect and admiration for the builders and researchers pushing this space
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@apriori0x
apriori
1 year
Today marks my first day with @heliaxdev I’ll be doing a variety of things including coordination, writing, and building @anoma This is a dream opportunity. Thank you to the individuals & communities who contributed to my growth. Thank you @cwgoes @awasunyin @adrian_brink
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@apriori0x
apriori
3 years
Worth a listen. @MihailoBjelic provides good context on where Polygon is. -Experimenting with ZkEVM plugin to SDK (edge) - Polygon Avail taking similar approach to Celestia with differing cryptography - Hermez ZkEVM testnet should ship in 3 months.
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apriori
5 months
Discourse in the crypto community suggests that we don't need any new application types, and that we should focus exclusively on improving existing applications. Indeed, this discourse is wrong, let's talk about Multichat. 🧵
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apriori
2 months
@enshriningplebs why are you subtweeting well meaning people for likes?
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@apriori0x
apriori
11 months
Public Signal tl;dr - potential Anoma application; intent-centric Kickstarter with demand-side aggregation and refund bonuses. >Public Goods >Related Problems >Crowdfunding & Kickstarter >Dominant Assurance contracts >Public Signal >Anoma
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@apriori0x
apriori
2 years
@zeroknowledgefm @AnnaRRose Danksharding + PBS + SSF + zkEVM - @dankrad , @drakefjustin Cevmos + Sovereign Rollups + Cosmos - @musalbas , @KreuzUQuer , @zmanian Mev-Boost + cross - domain MEV - @hasufl , @thegostep , @ObadiaAlex Fuel VM + SwayLang + Parallelization - @jadler0 + @IAmNickDodson
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apriori
1 year
“Anoma is not just about intents? If I understand, you’re saying Anoma can be understood as a general multi-agent cybernetic substrate… I think I need to ponder that for a moment.”
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1 month
Passengers don’t need to know it’s a Boeing aircraft, only the airline needs to know. Plane Abstraction.
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apriori
1 year
Anoma = Typhon + Taiga + Ferveo + VampIR + GEB + Juvix
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@apriori0x
apriori
3 years
The Meta-chain Thesis Examining the future of @Polkadot
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apriori
1 year
Recently, I traveled to the town of Reichenau an der Rax to learn more and connect with some teams building Collaborative Finance (CoFi). It was an eye-opening experience in many ways.
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Anoma
1 year
New Blog Post: Anoma is putting Graphs back into Crypto
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apriori
5 months
This is like comparing “execution sharding” and “modular” One has a precise mathematical definition, the other is marketing term intentionally derived to push a narrative that supports a new cohort of infrastructure projects.
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Dan Elitzer
5 months
"Intents" and "Chain Abstraction" cover the same area, but the latter is a 10x better narrative Intents: how things are done; about order flow & market structure, who extracts value Chain abstraction: why things are done; user-centric, about consumer value prop
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@apriori0x
apriori
6 months
Nope. You should stay and fight for your rights leveraging the legal system. The US won’t improve if talented natives leave. I’m not leaving, and I am politically active.
@jillrgunter
jill gunter
6 months
If you are starting a crypto project and you are young / don't have many commitments, you should NOT be in the United States. Sad but true. And truer today than ever.
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apriori
7 months
A path dependent topology of MEV discourse Slides;
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apriori
1 year
Intent-based protocols pt1: unfolding UniswapX tl;dr >wtf is Uniswap X? >motivations >architecture >intent Lifecycle >cross-chain Orders >future Considerations
@anoma
Anoma
1 year
New Blog post <> Intent-based protocols pt1: unfolding UniswapX
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apriori
2 months
the world becomes a much more meaningful existence once you learn how to open your heart to others.
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@apriori0x
apriori
2 years
Fun one to nerd out on by @jump_ FPGA Acceleration of Multi-Scalar Multiplication: CycloneMSM Paper focuses on computing large MSM on FPGA devices and presents speed records for BLS12-377 of 5.66s for N = 2^26 and sub second for N = 2^22….based
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@apriori0x
apriori
3 years
3/ The Avalanche Consensus works in 4 stages: 1) Slush 🌨 2) Snowflake ❄️ 3) Snowball ⛄️ 4) Avalanche 🗻 The consensus relies on subsampled voting process which allows any node to propose and vote on decisions without permissions.
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@apriori0x
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2 months
The Application discourse has come into focus as of late. By my estimation, there are three things going on that all appear to the naked eye coupled by this type of phrase - "we need more applications". - Dissatisfaction with the continual funding of and existence of the
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apriori
6 months
both @namada and @anoma take significant inspiration from Zcash. Zcash is based AF.
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zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ
6 months
The thing is, seeing this makes me even more bullish on Zcash! For years I’ve been constantly trying to accumulate as much Zcash as I can afford. I never buy any other coin/token/digital-asset except for ZEC. This encourages me to keep it up. I’m betting on the uncool kid. ⤵️
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@apriori0x
apriori
3 months
If you want more applications, stop worshiping protocols, their tokens, and their creators. Stop thinking of applications as “crypto” apps and instead apps competing in an existing well specified vertical—web w/e. The mental bundling of all crypto apps as an investible
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4 months
imagine arguing about trust assumptions when everything is a multi-sig
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apriori
1 year
Thank you to @annaRrose @cwgoes @awasunyin @taurnchitra @cangurel @vveilen for insights, suggestions, and conversation around the topics discussed in this article. Below I’ll break down Taiga in a thread.
@zkv_xyz
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1 year
Amidst these constraints, @apriori0x took a look at the solutions emerging in the privacy design space by examining the data and function privacy architectures of @namada , @penumbrazone , Taiga ( @anoma ), ZEXE & SGX.
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apriori
3 months
Centralized sequencing is not the endgame you are looking for.
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apriori
5 months
On a daily basis the masses are being bombarded with corporate marketing campaigns for ; gambling alcohol synthetic food Promiscuity narcissism drugs Corps print money as they program the masses with artificial desires which lead to poor life outcomes. But publishing code
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apriori
2 months
you never know how much time you have left with the people you love. cherish it.
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apriori
7 months
play the slow game, its more important than you think.
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apriori
3 months
Silence mechanism designer, a preconf researcher is speaking.
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apriori
10 months
The feed is dominated by giddiness over price, which is to be expected. However, it is apparent that the “hard money” thesis or “store of value” meme is just a facade. Folks literally only care about price relative to American empire bucks. Many hope to transfer these gains back
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apriori
2 months
Yes I have abandoned CT despite supporting it in the past. Yes CT has abandoned its users despite supporting them in the past. The idea of sitting around LARPing watching anons argue about infra and concocting purity tests, while zero newcomers care about this stuff, is gross.
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apriori
5 months
Next cycle will be the application cycle. People need to live out their ten thousands / millions of supply side block-space abstractions / value extraction fantasies first.
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apriori
1 year
Come by the booth this morning to talk intents
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apriori
6 months
Anoma’s architecture is something you’ve never seen. Perhaps we’ve promised a lot but the wait will be worth it. If you haven’t its a pelasure to read @cwgoes new post where he articulates Anoma <>Ethereum
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@apriori0x
apriori
3 years
2/ The Avalanche consensus was born out of an anonymous paper written by Team Rocket which sought to combine the best qualities of The Classical Consensus & Nakamoto Consensus protocals. In 2018 @el33th4xor founded @avalabsofficial and began to build.
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apriori
6 months
You know what apps are unusable; Sofi Delta United Credit Karma Ticket Master [insert your bank app] The bar is lower than you think.
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apriori
6 months
Incredible 3 week quest. Highlights include; - building with @heliaxdev - sharing at - baking CAKE v1 & 2 Most of all was great to connect with and learn from friends, colleagues, and collaborators.
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apriori
3 years
1/ @avalancheavax overarching goal is to provide a unifying platform for the creation, trade, and transfer of digital assets by using its novel consensus mechanism to build a Network of Subnets.
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apriori
8 months
There are no endgames in crypto. Crypto is an infinite game. It is also extremely difficult to predict the future.
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apriori
4 months
grateful for all the wonderful people i get to spend time with. everyday is a gift.
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apriori
2 months
block out the noise and focus on what you can control. get a little bit better everyday.
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apriori
5 months
the literacy rate in this industry is trending towards zero. Folks either simply do not read or try to comprehend what they read, but then want to hold weak opinions, strongly.
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apriori
1 month
do not try to abstract the chain, that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth...
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1 month
i still don’t know what chain abstraction is and at this point i’m too afraid to ask
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apriori
3 years
c) Avalanche does not make use of slashing. If a node is not correct or unresponsive > 60% of time they lose their staking reward. However, all stake is returned at end of staking period. AVAX has 1000+ Nodes $9.28B staked 56% of Supply
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6 months
A path dependent topology of MEV discourse (from a historical perspective) [ video] Thank you to @tzhen , Flashbots , and @NethermindEth for organizing.
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apriori
10 months
Be kind to folks on here. Easy to pass judgement and throw stones, harder to show compassion and empathy. Choose the latter.
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apriori
3 years
11/ Undoubtedly, Avalanche’s novel consensus mechanism paves the way for an interoperable multi-chain future with endless use cases. There are many details that I did not cover such as bootstrapping, security, governance, tokenomics, et al. Will cover in the future.
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@apriori0x
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8 months
OH: Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available
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@apriori0x
apriori
1 year
If you're looking for some weekend reading about how to design an intent-centric VM, look no further. We begin by attempting to answer the question; what is a VM? Here we review the classical von Neumann architecture.
@apriori0x
apriori
1 year
Realizing Intents With a Resource Model Part 1 - What Even Is a VM? By @cwgoes This was my favorite presentation from research day. In this series of six threads you will learn *everything* you ever wanted to know about how @anoma currently thinks about intents.
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@apriori0x
apriori
5 months
I don’t say this lightly. Extremely excited about @cyclesmoney , a project that can change the world for the better.
@cyclesmoney
Cycles
5 months
We’ve been quiet the last few weeks, putting the final touches on our whitepaper and new website. The whitepaper is under review by many of our Cosmos & Ethereum friends And the website is now live 🎉
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apriori
1 year
Money is not what you think Read this brilliant piece from @cwgoes on scale-free money
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apriori
2 years
EVM Object Format (EOF) EOF itself is a set of EIPs ~ 3540, 3670, 4200, 4750, 5450 Goals: • Separate code and data • Code validation (at deploy time) • Extensibility (via versioning) Below is a helpful list of resources, thanks to the authors.
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@apriori0x
apriori
3 years
4/ Slush a) Avalanche network is made of nodes in 3 states; neutral, true & false. Each node starts out in neutral until faced with a decision where it will vote T/F. Once a state is chosen, that node queries other nodes on the network.
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apriori
3 months
Great discussion on P2P Networks come join us at Intents Discussions.
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apriori
1 year
We are hiring for a few roles @heliaxdev including Senior Rust Engineer My first month @heliaxdev has been incredible. The culture is supreme. If you're intents curious or simply want to work with an extraordinary team, apply (link below).
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apriori
3 months
You think your pro-Ethereum influencers beginning to question based rollups this week, as if they actually changed their own mind––is random?
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apriori
1 year
. @stellarmagnet on stage dropping knowledge Come stop by @AutoEcologies
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apriori
2 years
@0xEdgar @lexfridman 3hrs/ day 100-120 pgs each sitting, finish book in 3-4 days with exception of longer ones like Brothers take the full week. 4 hrs deep work 3 hrs read 2 hrs exercising 1 hr meal prep + eat 6 hrs free 8 hrs sleep Not unreasonable, Ive done this before for extended time
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apriori
1 year
Realizing Intents With a Resource Model Part 1 - What Even Is a VM? By @cwgoes This was my favorite presentation from research day. In this series of six threads you will learn *everything* you ever wanted to know about how @anoma currently thinks about intents.
@jon_charb
Jon Charbonneau
1 year
@cwgoes - @anoma | Realizing Intents With a Resource Model
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@apriori0x
apriori
3 years
9/ The Avalanche Network is composed of multiple subnets. Each subnet can be its own blockchain. Each chain contains different Virtual Machines. The Network boasts impressive TPS > 4500 & < 2s finality. The 3 main subnets: 1) X Chain - AVM 2) P Chain - PVM 3) C Chain - EVM
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apriori
4 months
NYC is a wonderful place to visit. Always brings good vibes
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apriori
3 years
b) If they don’t yet have a state they adopt state of querying node. If majority of queried nodes have the same state your querying node stays the same if majority of nodes have different state querying node flips to that state.
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apriori
6 months
Application Specific Sequencing (Panel) with @drakefjustin @hal2001 @thegostep @bertcmiller @apriori0x [ video]
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apriori
3 years
10/ Network Topology via @Delphi_Digital
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apriori
3 years
c) C Chain is used for smart contract creation. It contains the entirety of the EVM. It is byte per byte backwards compatible with existing EVM dApps. Supports Ethereum tooling including solidity. Runs the Snowman consensus. TPS can perform order of magnitude > Ethereum.
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apriori
3 years
12/ For more details and source material I utilized to synthesize this thread please review the contents of these links. White Papers: Daily Ape: Medium:
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apriori
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i still don’t know what chain abstraction is and at this point i’m too afraid to ask
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apriori
5 months
(12) There are many teams researching/ building novel apps for the masses, to name a few more: The future of payments and credit @cyclesmoney by @informalinc UBI & Mutual / mesh credit networks @Julio_Linares_ with @CirclesEntropy Social obligation NFTs @sxysun1 with SUAVE
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@apriori0x
apriori
3 years
c) Many rounds of querying will occur until network is in agreement. Even 50/50 ties can be broken with more rounds of querying. Every node in the network repeats this process until entire network comes to consensus on one conflicting transaction.
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3 years
5/ Snowflake - process where network starts to recall prior state votes of each node. Each node has a counter. For every Slush query the counter tracks the state of each node. Once counter reaches high enough number it locks and will no longer flip states with slush queries.
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@apriori0x
apriori
2 years
Need a distraction from the drama anon? Reading List:
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@apriori0x
apriori
3 years
8/ Sybil Mechanism - POS a) Avalanche uses POS for Sybil control. The primary reasons are for security and to ensure incentives of participants are aligned. Also POW accrues persistent costs, value leak & environmental damage. Though Avalanche subnets can be coupled w/ POW/POS.
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apriori
3 years
b) P Chain creates and tracks active subnets while coordinating with validators. Staking takes place here. Runs the Snowman consensus.
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apriori
3 years
a) X Chain is the default chain of the network. Primarily utilized for Asset creation, NFTs for example. The chain builds DAG concurrency of transactions not requiring sequencing with respect to each other. A transaction can be finalized while another is worked on.
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