A key promise of blockchain is “I know that what I see is what you see”. Deterministic contract execution is critical to this. Hence the from-ground-up Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) but there’s a problem… the world runs on the *J*VM (and CLR etc), not the *E*VM. What to do? 1/n
How to empower the 10-million-strong Java ecosystem to bring the “I know that I see what you see” promise of blockchain to business without forcing the world to learn entirely new languages and tools? Answer: make the JVM deterministic! Sounds far-fetched? It’s happening 2/n
See this post from Tommy Lillehagen in the Corda team on the first iteration of our work on a fully deterministic Java sandbox. This is just a first step but a major one nonetheless. Great work from Tommy, Chris, Andras and the rest of the team. medium.com/@tlil/determin… (3/4)
This first iteration of a deterministic JVM is a meaty piece of work from the Corda team. We expect there to be many rounds of review, and the PR to be up for a while before merging. Anyone interested is welcome to take a look and provide feedback! github.com/corda/corda/pu… (4/4)
