In the Medium post «Scaling Ethereum to Billions of Users,» Fred Ehrsham - who formerly co-founded Coinbase and now advises blockchain startups - argued that a current bottleneck is that very few developers are working on
each scalability project right now.
However, Loom Network is the first ethereum
scalability project to start with the more centralized model first.
He also referred to his latest
scalability project, Plasma, which will be developed alongside other scaling solutions like sharding and ZKSnarks.
These numbers could suggest that
scalability projects don't require as much funding as in previous grant periods because, as recently teased by Vitalik Buterin, some scalability measures might be closer to being solved.
Not exact matches
The aim of the
project is to integrate existing Blockchainów in structure, so they can be easily compared with standards identified by the Working Group Hyperledger Performance and
Scalability.
Growing Startups and Local Business: To help jumpstart
projects where an investment might enable individuals and organizations to achieve critical milestones on their path towards self - sustainability and
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).
There's likely a few quality
projects I'm missing, but for the most part there are a lot of low quality
projects making big claims about
scalability and raising massive amounts of money from unsophisticated investors on these claims.
There are a few ethereum scaling
projects in the works, each of which tackles a different
scalability problem.
There's another category of
scalability - first
projects that is even earlier and less proven than the
projects listed above that seek to achieve consensus via mechanisms that lie outside the construct of a blockchain (gossip protocols, directed acyclic graphs, etc).
While these
scalability - first
projects generally lack the passionate, grassroots communities that have the strong inherent demand to use these platforms for transactions today, they have constructed blockchains that are fundamentally more scalable than Bitcoin and Ethereum now.
A new nucleic acid sequencing platform, the Sequel System, provides higher throughput, more
scalability, a reduced footprint, and lower sequencing
project costs compared to the PacBio RS II System, while maintaining the existing benefits of single molecule, real - time (SMRT) technology.
The NextSeq 500 is easily configured providing researchers with
scalability to handle low to high - throughput
project sizes for maximum operational efficiency.
- Support two, leading - edge
projects from promising initial results to
scalability, and in the process learn what it takes to build, test, and document a structured, systematized approach to greater impacts for larger numbers of children within an evolving R&D pipeline.
This vital assistance helps community - based teams build their own internal capacity to develop intervention strategies and materials, specify hypotheses to be tested, conduct rigorous evaluations, participate in a shared data library that serves all FOI
projects, and be well - positioned for
scalability if their intervention is found to be effective.
At the Unreal Engine presentation at GDC 2018 today, Epic Games CTO Kim Libreri introduced several
projects highlighting the
scalability and performance of Unreal technology, including a partnership with ILMxLAB and Nvidia.
«I love the
scalability of this
project.
We believe that subsidies for energy access related
projects are not an outlandish proposition and in fact, if implemented correctly could be the catalyst that tips the nascent rural off - grid sector into rapid
scalability.
Transactions will contribute to financial market transformation (e.g., multiples of capital mobilized to fund total
project costs and potential to drive the type of volume, including
scalability and replicability, that can materially and sustainably expand markets); and
Lastly, all Gold standard
projects are retired on the Markit registry — an independent establishment that increases transparency, efficiency and
scalability within the global environmental markets.
This
project further conveys
scalability to meet local community needs, an objective of our statewide initiative.
Ipro's eCapture, Lighthouse's primary production platform, is a powerful, innovative eDiscovery software designed to handle large
projects with speed and
scalability.
To that end, we are announcing a subsidy scheme for
projects that are building
scalability and latency - reducing «layer 2» platforms that live on top of Ethereum, benefitting from the Ethereum blockchain's security as a base layer and interoperability with the greater Ethereum community and platform.
Enigma
Project, the team building a privacy and
scalability protocol for any blockchain and creators of Catalyst, a platform for data - driven crypto investing and trading announced a major development milestone related to their privacy protocol as well as the Catalyst app.
There are a few ethereum scaling
projects in the works, each of which tackles a different
scalability problem.
«These
projects could drastically increase Bitcoin's
scalability, and allow for instant secure and cheap payments.
A look at the schedule reveals a heavy focus on security and
scalability - two issues that are top of mind for developers working on blockchain
projects globally.
The
project has been heralded as a potential solution to bitcoin's perceived
scalability issues for its attempt to enable experimentation on bitcoin's code.
Another crucial exchange is the benefit that private blockchains could have for
scalability, to stop the overburdening of the public blockchain by bringing certain
projects off - chain.
In that way, you could think of these price increases as a symptom of blockchain tech's larger
scalability problems, of which there are a range of
projects that might help.
Blockstream has announced the release of the first open source code for sidechains, its signature
project aimed at bitcoin
scalability issues.
While many
projects use off - chain technology to achieve faster transactions and enhanced
scalability, Zilliqa is aiming for a lightning - fast
bloXroute: The team announced the
project a few weeks ago, and is is now hard at work proving out the
scalability solution with various blockchain teams including Bitcoin Unlimited.
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).
While many
projects use off - chain technology to achieve faster transactions and enhanced
scalability, Zilliqa is aiming for a lightning - fast on - chain solution.
This article has detailed a number of
projects with infinitely superior technology to Bitcoin's Proof - of - Work, enabling monumental improvements in speed and
scalability.
The
project is the evolution of JP Morgan's Juno
project and solves the pressing issue of
scalability with its Chainweb parallel architecture protocol, a scalable BFT consensus mechanism.
There's likely a few quality
projects I'm missing, but for the most part there are a lot of low quality
projects making big claims about
scalability and raising massive amounts of money from unsophisticated investors on these claims.
The researchers behind the SPECTRE and GHOST
projects have proposed a new blockchain
scalability protocol.
«We decided to collaborate with the Lightning Network team on this
project because we believe the Lightning Network will bring
scalability to the bitcoin blockchain that is of orders of magnitude beyond what the blockchain can currently support,» Bitfury CEO Valery Vavilov told CoinDesk.
Hyperledger Sawtooth is Intel's focus
project and a modular blockchain suite using a consensus protocol called «Proof of Elapsed Time» (PoET) to improve the
scalability and versatility of blockchain - based applications.
True potential lies in visionary
projects like Lightning Network, which is solving Bitcoin's
scalability issues while maintaining its top level security and resistance.
According to him, the aim of the Lightning
project is to implement linear
scalability, which will allow increasing the system's throughput for any necessary number of transactions.
In both of these cities, most of the
projects pertain to cryptocurrencies and cryptocurrency exchanges, with an emphasis on
scalability,» the report goes on to say.
A total of 13
projects received more than $ 2.5 million combined to work on
scalability, security, development experiences, user interface study and other derivatives of the ethereum blockchain, according to a Wednesday announcement.
Scalability is a shared central issue for all platforms building on the Ethereum network, which would prevent mainstream mass use of their
projects.
Here the
project is labeled as the «next generation of smart contract platform» built to have all the necessary features that Dapp users need, such as zero fees, high
scalability, instant transactions» paying, high and fast TPS and double layer network system.
Overall, this
project feels very similar to exploring the Bitcoin blockchain as a coder but adds some extra functionalities and solves the
scalability issue in a completely different manner.
The
projects that heavily focus on solving transactions
scalability issues will grow big time.
Even though this would have hugely helped with Bitcoins
scalability issues by doubling the block capacity on the new chain, the
project was unceremoniously cancelled in November, citing «lack of consensus» as the main reason.