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Review on Zilliqa by Alicia Iqbal
If it’s PhDs you want, Zilliqa’s team has them. The Zilliqa team has a strong…
If it’s PhDs you want, Zilliqa’s team has them. The Zilliqa team has a strong academic background, and 3 of the founders are alumni of the prestigious National University of Singapore. The Zilliqa project even stems from a research project conducted by the NUS. The CEO and co-founder is Xinshu Dong. Dong is an internationally recognized expert in the field of cyber security and has been involved in multiple national security projects for the Singapore government. He is supported by co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer Prateek Saxena, a professor in computer science at the National University of Singapore, the field in which he also holds a PhD.
Pros
- How Zilliqa solves the scalability issue is a great first step. However, the platform needs to be used before it becomes anything of real value. Zilliqa’s use case is that it will become a smart contract and dapp platform. In this regard, the platform’s sharding method is a constraint, as it requires an extreme amount of communication between the different shards to let a dapp run as intended. Because of this, the platform initially only supports smart contracts that are created for functional programming and data flows. According to the team, this will change in the near future.
Cons
- In order to be able to employ smart contracts on the sharding-based Zilliqa platform, the team has created a new programming language. This programming language is called Scilla and has been created to make functional programming more secure and standardized. The application of this new language is quite technical, but it basically comes down to a programming language that understands how to separate the computational work of a contract (state) from the communicative aspect of a contract (function).
