Thread by @CryptoBlooom

The hottest feature for the next generation #L1s and #L2s that you don't know about.

💡 Parallel processing

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◼️ Parallel processing is used in high-level computing and brought to the blockchain for effective message communication and execution within the framework of blockchains.

Examples of blockchains that use it:

#Fuel @fuellabs_
#Solana @solana
#Sui @SuiNetwork
#Aptos @Aptos_Network
#Vara @VaraNetwork
+ Others

❓ What is it?

#Parallelization is an approach to scalability & effectivity that considers programming languages, virtual machines, underlying architecture, consensus algorithms, etc.

Parallel computing is mature in Web2, but it is still in its early stages in the blockchain.

Unrelated transactions are simultaneously processed on different cores on the same CPU!

◼️ A scalability solution that can be adopted by any L1 or L2.

Other designs see messages happen to add an additional layer of communication.

#Aptos and #Sui differ slightly in how they handle parallel computing.

For example, #Sui classifies transaction objects by a cocktail of DAG and BFT consensus.

∥ Parallelized computing is not only reflected in the increase in TPS, as the existing smart contracts are only suitable for serial execution.

It can also enable messaging within the blockchain. Meaning communications that do not necessarily compute as on-chain transactions.

🪂 One example is when a game needs to update events that often happen without paying gas for each update.

This sets the path toward fully on-chain games.

Yet to witness the best of what parallel computing is capable of in the future, most Dapps should be in line with the characteristics of parallel computing.

⛓ @VaraNetwork is built using #Gearprotocols #ActorModel with their smart contract engine.

This enables asynchronous messages and parallel execution.

⏤ #Vara is a new #L1

⛓ @solana has “Sealevel”, #Solana’s parallel smart contracts runtime feature enabling their high TPS count.

⛓ @SuiNetwork has leaped scalability by enabling “parallel agreement” on causally independent txs.

⛓ @fuellabs_ uses the FuelVM with the UTXO model, enabling transactions to run in parallel by using "state access lists" to find transactions that depend on each other.

⛓ @Aptos_Network has their Block-STM: Enabling an alleged execution of 160k TPS.

An academic approach pioneered by Software Transactional Memory (STM)

All of these #L1s achieve a parallel execution engine that extracts the most inherent speedup achievable.

💡 Parallel processing/computation is the feature for the new level of blockchains, the future of #L1 chains.

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