Review on Zilliqa by Thin Phan

Name: Zilliqa
Item: Zilliqa
Rating: 4

September 18, 2018

A Scilla contract may come with some helper libraries that declare purely…

A Scilla contract may come with some helper libraries that declare purely functional components of a contract. 
A library is declared in the preamble of a contract using the keyword library followed by the name of the library. 
HelloWorld contract code has a function one_msg in the library and two global constants.
Standard libraries shipped with the language can be added using the keyword import followed by the name of the library.
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Pros

Fast, Secure and Decentralized Zilliqa’s high throughput means that you can focus on developing your ideas without worrying about network congestion, high transaction fees or security which are the key issues with legacy blockchain platforms.

Cons

Zilliqa can only run the simplest parts of a smart contract or dApp at the moment. Running whole smart contracts would require a huge amount of communication between shards. If Zilliqa tried to process whole smart contracts using sharding then contracts could be in different states on different shards. This could allow hackers to alter the blockchain. If the platform is going to reach its full potential then it will have to solve problems like this before it launches.