ABEY 2.0 – Redefining the GameFi Chain
The race to build the best public blockchain took off in 2018. 3 years later, 2021 is being dubbed the “First year of the public chain” by the industry. For a while, hundreds of public chain projects have emerged around the world to compete. In 2021, with Grayscale Capital’s and Elon Musk endorsing cryptocurrency, the market ushered in an unimaginable bull market. Although the market has been stirred up by capital, industry insiders are still full of concerns about the future of blockchain. After all, only a fundamental breakthrough in the basic cores of the technology can truly break the shackles of the past. The public chain is the key to all decentralized applications. The well-known brands of BTC and ETH are all public chains. Tracing back, the competition of public chains has been between ETH and others. However, deep-rooted problems with the ETH chain have gradually surfaced. Due to performance bottlenecks, it is becoming more and more difficult to meet the needs of today’s Decentralized Applications, or DApp’s. This article will take ABEY – the exemplar of the new generation of public chains to dive into the correct direction of development in the blockchain world – from the perspectives of technological innovation and meeting demands of today’s Dapps.
Solving the “impossible triangle” △
The public chain is the underlying foundation for blockchain applications. It is like an open-source Android or iOS operating system in a mobile phone. Only a solid, stable and efficient platform can be truly adopted by the mainstream world.
However, public chains have always been unable to avoid the “impossible triangle” – that is, security, decentralization and scalability cannot be achieved at the same time. From Bitcoin to Ethereum, to ETH 2.0, high hopes of solving the triangle has not been effective. Developers have explored and experimented around the issue from many angles. However, no perfect solution has been found.
With EOS, people once again gained confidence in public chain development. EOS relied on its experience and lessons learned from ETH, and set up super nodes to increase efficiency of operation. Although its “over-centralized” design has been criticized, EOS does have its advantages. However, after its main net went live, not much has happened since.
EOS is indeed far more efficient than Ethereum, as EOS relies on a consensus mechanism that is completely different from Ethereum and Bitcoin. Both Ethereum and Bitcoin implement the PoW consensus, while EOS uses DPoS (delegated proof of stake). The core of the difference between the two lies in efficiency and decentralization. Under the PoW mechanism, it takes 10 minutes for Bitcoin to generate a block; and under the DPoS mechanism, EOS can produce a block every 0.5 seconds.
Right now, the development of public chains is faced with a few technical bottlenecks: loss of developers, chaotic governance, and lack of capital. With the arrival of ABEY 2.0, enthusiasts are expecting a new era of public chain development.
Transaction Per Second (TPS)
Throughout history, the development of public chains has always been in a vicious circle of contradiction. On the one hand, blockchain technology is developing rapidly, but after nearly ten years of exploration, a large-scale application was never brought to day light. The main reason is that there is no public chain strong and fast enough to keep up with the increasing demands.
The public chain serves as the underlying infrastructure for various DAPP applications. Killer applications can only be bred and sustained by high-speed structures. It is the cornerstone of the blockchain industry.
In order to further improve TPS, the ABEY 2.0 public chain aims to overcome the limit on the number of BFT nodes. Test data shows that the ABEY 2.0’s current TPS can meet the most demanding needs of market applications (1500 TPS). Upon grading to data sharding in the near future; the peak speed will never be less than 10,000 TPS. The high performance of ABEY 2.0 at 10,000 TPS has laid a solid foundation for the large-scale blockchain applications.
Technological breakthroughs of ABEY 2.0
- ABEY 2.0 optimized the AVM: ABEY 2.0 added the EVM-LIKE virtual machine (VM for short), to supports more efficient smart contracts. The ABEY 2.0 virtual machine integrates Ethereum’s EVM and ABEY’s VM , collectively referred to as AVM virtual machines.
- The optimized gas pricing mechanism of ABEY 2.0 will prompt creation of a “gas futures market” in the near future;
- ABEY 2.0’s ADB can adopt a distributed solution, which could divide file data into several small pieces of data through the Merkel Tree (Merkel tree), saves them to multiple peers, and restores them through the peers pointed to by the node file.
About ABEY: ABEY is an international public blockchain platform and the preferred blockchain protocol for GameFi applicaitons. ABEY aims to create a multi-layered, fast, programmable blockchain protocol to support an system with massive transaction throughput. The project was officially released on July 30, 2018, and has accumulated more than 150,000 users worldwide.
Concluding remarks
There are many opportunities in the crypto world. But not many big ones until the ABEYCHAIN. We believe that innovative public chains like ABEYCHAIN, have the opportunity to become one of the biggest opportunities in the near future, not only for investors and the financial community, but for mankind.
This is an industry worth over one trillion dollars. Not only it provides the underlying infrastructure for DApps and decentralized finance, but will also support our society and the world in general from potential users from many other industries and unlimited real world applications. With the expansion of network effects, blockchain will become stronger than ever. Among all the public chains out there, ABEYCHAIN and ABEY 2.0 is the crown jewel of them all.
ABEY2.0与时俱进，重新定义公链时代
公链之争起源于2018年，甚至这一年被业界称为公链元年，一时间全球涌现出上百条公链项目展开竞争，但还没等到这股技术热潮瓜熟落地，就被突如其来的熊市带进了漫漫寒冬。
时间来到2021年，随着灰度资本的跑步入场，马斯克在推特的大肆营销，区块链市场迎来了难以想象的大牛市。虽然市场被资本搅的火热，但业内人士依旧对区块链的前景充满担忧，毕竟唯有技术上的根本突破才能打破时代的桎梏。
公链是关键，它在区块链应用中扮演着重要角色，像人们熟知的BTC、ETH等均是一种公链。当然，BTC是很不一样的存在，它不仅是加密货币的开山鼻祖，更是打破了人类的固有观念，向世界打开了一扇神奇的大门，是区块链的发展基石。
因而实际上，这两年公链的竞争一直是在ETH和其它公链之间展开的。但在经过时间的洗礼之后，璀璨如星的ETH公链存在的一些问题也逐渐的暴露出来，由于性能瓶颈，越来越难以满足DApp应用的需求。
本文将以新一代公链ABEY为模型，从技术创新、落地应用等角度窥探区块链世界未来的正确发展方向。
打破不可能△
作为区块链应用价值的底层支撑的公链，是未来区块链的发展趋势，一直被大家所看好。它的存在就像是手机里的安卓系统一样，它是区块链市场中的操作系统，用来拓展性能或为商业应用提供服务支撑，只有在公链扎实稳健高效运转的基础上，区块链商业应用才能实现真正落地和发展。
然而公链的发展一直绕不开“不可能三角”的困扰，即安全性、去中心化和可扩展性三者不可兼得。从比特币到以太坊，再到被寄予厚望但还未实现的ETH 2.0，底层公链领域进行了多次迭代。人们围绕中心化与去中心化的均衡、处理业务速度的高低、安全性这个“不可能三角”展开了探索与实验。然而，一直没有找到完美的解决方案。
随着之后EOS的问世，让人们对公链的发展再次充满了信心。EOS 凭着后发优势，吸取了 ETH 在共识方面的经验教训，又设置了侧链和超级节点，虽然其“过分中心化”设计备受诟病，但在运行速度和效率方面 EOS 确实有其优势。然而在其主网上线后，也随即不了了之。
细心的朋友可以发现，EOS在效率上的确是远超以太坊，因为EOS依靠的是与以太坊和比特币截然不同的共识机制。以太坊和比特币实行的是PoW共识机制，而EOS采用的则是DPoS共识机制。两者区别的核心在于——效率和去中心化，在PoW机制下，比特币产生一个区块需要10分钟；而在DPoS机制下，EOS能够达到每0.5秒出一个区块，出块频率相对比特币提升了1200倍。到底选择谁，牺牲谁？反观市场中其它公链，基本上是一种被忽视的存在。
目前，公链发展都面临深陷技术瓶颈、开发者流失、治理混乱和资本匮乏的四大泥潭之中而难以自拔。而ABEY2.0的到来，让我们看到了公链发展的新曙光。
这一次，让TPS尽情释放
纵观历史，公链的发展始终处于一个相悖的怪圈。一方面，区块链技术发展迅速，可经过了近十年的探索，仍旧没有诞生某个大规模的应用，究其原因当下没有满足与时俱进的基础公链。
另一方面，相比于数量少得可怜的活跃DApp，作为“底层操作系统”的公链反而数量众多，据媒体报道目前全球已有上百条公链项目正在启动。虽然公链通过投资构建生态，在吸引DApp上能起到立竿见影的效果。但若无过硬技术支撑，这种做法容易舍本逐末。
公链作为各种DAPP应用的底层基础设施。只有搭建高速、稳定的基础公链，才能使各种落地应用的侧链和智能合约有底层操作系统可用，才是孕育杀手级应用的土壤和基石。
ABEY 2.0公链为了进一步提高TPS，克服BFT节点数量限制。相关测试数据显示目前ABEY 2.0的TPS可满足当前市场应用的需求（1500 TPS），在公网分布式节点环境下，峰值速度不小于1500次/秒。ABEY 2.0的高效能为区块链大规模应用打下了坚实的基础。很快，ABEY即将引入Sharding（分片）的处理方法，届时TPS将达到10000+以上。
ABEY 2.0的技术突破
1、ABEY 2.0优化的虚拟机AVM：ABEY 2.0添加EVM-LIKE虚拟机（简称VM），同时支持效率更高的系统合约，ABEY 2.0的虚拟机集合了以太坊的EVM和ABEY的VM，统称为AVM虚拟机。
2、ABEY2.0优化的gas定价机制，未来将设计gas期货市场；
3、ABEY2.0的abeyDB可以采用分布式方案，把数据通过Merkel Tree（默克尔树）的方法把文件数据分割成若干块小数据，保存到多个Peers上，通过node指向的peers来还原该文件（即根部寻找枝部）等。
关于ABEY：ABEY是一个国际明星公链，全球电子商务首选的区块链协议。ABEY旨在创造一种多层架构、可快速编程的区块链协议，用来支撑海量交易的电子商务系统。目前已经在全球累计了超过15万的用户。
结语
公链越到后面，其网络效应的力量越大，它的吞噬力也越大。这是一个至少万亿美元级别以上的领域。因为它不仅可以提供DApp、开放金融等基础设置需求，而且天然具备货币的基础属性，这会赋予它货币溢价。这意味着它跟单纯的数字货币不一样，它除了共识的支撑之外，还会有现金流、使用场景等支撑。随着网络效应的提升，这个领域会越来越强。ABEY 2.0则是这当中的佼佼者。