🚧 Project Abundance 🚧

The majority of the last two weeks I’ve been busy with the installation of the antivirus system update for my immune system. It was neither pleasant nor quick, but now that it is slowly approaching 100%, I’m back with another update of what I managed to do since the last update.

After a lot of thinking, this week I came to the realisation that a sharded architecture like the one we are trying to build can be designed leveraging the current design of the Subspace protocol and all its underlying mechanisms as a base. While this was the idea from the beginning, either for lack of familiarity with the protocol or plain ignorance, I was missing the big picture of how this could be done.

Overall, I am really happy with the progress I’ve made this week. I’ve been mainly focused on unravelling one of the papers that I mentioned in my last update, Proof-of-Stake Sidechains. While is true that we don’t want our system to have anything to do with PoS, and there is no 1:1 matching of the concepts from the paper with what we are trying to build, the paper presents a framework that can come pretty handy to evaluate the correctness of our designs. This paper is from 2018, and after a first pass the first thing that I did is to check if there were any follow-up papers that built upon the abstractions of this paper. I came across Proof-of-Work Sidechains from the same authors, but without a doubt, the most complete proposal is the one that I started with. Let’s dive right into it.