Review on Zilliqa by Demi Baxter

Name: Zilliqa
Item: Zilliqa
Rating: 4

September 19, 2018

Alongside sharding and a new programming language, Zilliqa offers some…

Alongside sharding and a new programming language, Zilliqa offers some upgrades in the mining and voting protocols as well. PoW is only used to establish and perform sharding, which reduces the computational burden of each transaction and reduces the possibility of the network being exposed to a Sybil attack. Consensus reaching is handled through Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT), as opposed to other blockchains which rely on PoW algorithms for both mining and consensus achievement.
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Pros

Alongside sharding and a new programming language, Zilliqa offers some upgrades in the mining and voting protocols as well. PoW is only used to establish and perform sharding, which reduces the computational burden of each transaction and reduces the possibility of the network being exposed to a Sybil aAlongside sharding and a new programming language, Zilliqa offers some upgrades in the mining and voting protocols as well. PoW is only used to establish and perform sharding, which reduces the computational burden of each transaction and reduces the possibility of the network being exposed to a Sybil attack. Consensus reaching is handled through Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT), as opposed to other blockchains which rely on PoW algorithms for both mining and consensus achievement.ttack. Consensus reaching is handled through Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT), as opposed to other blockchains which rely on PoW algorithms for both mining and consensus achievement.

Cons

The main reason why the cryptosphere is interested in Zilliqa is, in this case for real, its technology. Zilliqa team designed a completely new programming language named Scilla, which will be used for on-platform development and creation of smart contract-based dApps. Ethereum has long been known for using an extremely unintuitive programming language in Solidity; Zilliqa’s Scilla is developer friendly and allows for the smart contracts to be tested before being officially launched, which helps mitigate the pains of launching a contract with vulnerabilities in it. Most importantly, Scilla is a “blockchain agnostic” language, meaning that it doesn’t discriminate among the blockchains and can be used for development on other platforms.