In a follow - up blog post today, co-founder Vitalik Buterin also announced a grant program and so - called Blockchain «sharding,» both of which aim to shore up longer - term
Ethereum network scalability.
Not exact matches
He acknowledged that «
scalability» is an ongoing concern for all blockchains, but he's also not too worried that an inundation of mobile players is going to totally overwhelm the
Ethereum network.
As mentioned above as one of
Ethereum's core weaknesses and disadvantages, CryptoKitties shed light on the
network's current lack of
scalability.
While the EEA is a collaboration among its member base as well as with
Ethereum's chief scientist and inventor, Vitalik Buterin, it is open to any members of the
Ethereum community who wish to participate in the EEA's shared goals, such as providing insight to the future of
scalability, privacy, and confidentiality of the public
Ethereum permissionless
network.
The most widely known projects that are seeking to increase the
scalability of Bitcoin and
Ethereum are Lightning
Network (Bitcoin), Plasma (
Ethereum), and Casper (
Ethereum).
My view is that the
network effects and mindshare of Bitcoin and
Ethereum, and the caliber of the teams working on
scalability solutions for these
networks make it highly likely that solutions on Bitcoin and
Ethereum enable widespread transaction usage of the
networks.
However, Loom
Network is the first
ethereum scalability project to start with the more centralized model first.
During the last couple of months, the
Ethereum test
network was pushed to its limits in order to test
scalability and block propagation times.
Since early 2017, the developers behind most leading public blockchain
networks such as Bitcoin and
Ethereum have begun to actively develop second - layer solutions mainly for
scalability purposes.
Recently, the Byzantium hard fork led by the
Ethereum Foundation and its open - source development community featured a
scalability solution similar to SegWit, which removes the root of the transaction state tree, leading to faster transaction processing and overall
network scaling.
Dr Christian Reitwiessner, the team lead for
Ethereum's Solidity and
Ethereum C++ implementation further emphasized that Plasma is especially useful because it solves the underlying
scalability issues of public blockchains, specifically the
Ethereum network.
This open - source framework will enable the mass adoption at a depth and breadth otherwise unachievable in individual corporate silos and provide insight into the future of
scalability, privacy, and confidentiality of the public
Ethereum permissionless
network.
Both Bitcoin (The Lightning
Network) and
Ethereum (The Raiden
Network) have their answers to
scalability.
The most widely known projects that are seeking to increase the
scalability of Bitcoin and
Ethereum are Lightning
Network (Bitcoin), Plasma (
Ethereum), and Casper (
Ethereum).
The
network has been able to dramatically increase the
scalability of the blockchain by creating sidechains for each DApp — which they call a DAppChain — and it can run side - by - side with
Ethereum smart contracts.
This creates the possibility of running large scale
Ethereum blockchain based apps without worrying about keeping the
network decentralized,
scalability, or even third party censorship.
To address the growing demand for
Ethereum and the high expectations from the global
Ethereum community, Buterin explained that he will solely focus on the development of the
Ethereum blockchain
network and solving
scalability issues to provide a better ecosystem for decentralized applications.
The Raiden
network is an off - chain solution for increasing
scalability on
Ethereum.
Famously, Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam noted in an analytical blog post that the
Ethereum network must improve by a factor of 100-fold in regards to
scalability just to serve decentralized applications with millions of users.
Before delving into the
scalability issues of Bitcoin and
Ethereum, it is important to acknowledge that scaling decentralized Blockchain
networks is far more difficult than expanding centralized systems.
There have already been a lot of discussion around Bitcoin and
Ethereum scalability, especially around the topics of Lightning
Network, Casper, Sharding, and Plasma, as well as new blockchains that claim to fix all
scalability issues.
«The recent strain on the
Ethereum network due to the popularity of CryptoKitties has reignited the debate on Ether's
scalability issues.
Scalability is a shared central issue for all platforms building on the
Ethereum network, which would prevent mainstream mass use of their projects.
The token economics of
Ethereum beg questions to the long - term security of the
network, and it is not said that
Ethereum will solve the
scalability issues.
is essentially
Ethereum's solution to
scalability issues that will introduce high - speed asset transfers for the
Ethereum network.
However, in terms of
scalability, EOS will have two significant advantages over the
Ethereum network.
The Raiden
Network is essentially Ethereum's solution to scalability issues that will introduce high - speed asset transfers for the Ethereum n
Network is essentially
Ethereum's solution to
scalability issues that will introduce high - speed asset transfers for the
Ethereum networknetwork.
However, as stated in its whitepaper, it eventually plans to move to its own blockchain due to the well - known
scalability and speed issues with the
Ethereum network.
This is just one example of how Noxon and his team seeks
scalability solutions for the
Ethereum Network.
In the case of
scalability, the
Ethereum research team is fairly committed to sharding; we feel that it does a good job of combining the benefits of being an on - chain scaling strategy with the decentralization benefits of maintaining a
network that can theoretically run off of nothing but consumer laptops.»
Plasma was created by Buterin and Joseph Poon (co-creator of Bitcoin Lightening
Network) in 2017 to solve the
scalability issues of
Ethereum by producing a layer of smart contracts that will be in contact with the main blockchain.
One main issue EOS looks to improve is the
scalability problems which has plagued the
Ethereum network during times of high transaction volume, specifically during popular ICOs.
Ethereum's current ability to scale, «
Scalability [currently] sucks; the blockchain design fundamentally relies on bottlenecks where individual nodes must process every single transaction in the entire
network.»
However, our hopes and dreams were crushed at once by low
scalability and insufficiency of
Ethereum network that makes up every second crypto transaction in the world.
At its early stages, the
Ethereum network performed significantly better than bitcoin in what concerns
scalability and functionality.
So, in the meantime, while
Ethereum's main
network slowly fixes this
scalability issue companies like Giveth have to find workarounds.
The
Ethereum network depends on a robust ecosystem of developers who upgrade the protocol to address challenges such as
scalability, speed, and functionality.
Bitcoin's
scalability issue has been haunting its developer community since a long time and the
network congestion is one of the primary reasons why crypto investors and enthusiasts started shifting to other alternatives like
Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin, etc..
In the case of
scalability, the
Ethereum research team is fairly committed to sharing; we feel that it does a good job of combining the benefits of being an on - chain scaling strategy with the decentralization benefits of maintaining a
network that can theoretically run off of nothing but consumer laptops.»
With the key benefits being not only being
scalability, allowing upto a million transactions per second but also confidential and interoperability between other
Ethereum based token APIs, the Raiden
network works very similar to the lighting
network deployed in other major cryptocurrencies.