Community Deliberations on Phore Vs Synapse: What is the Best Way To Go? (I)
Within the month of February, there has been a lot of enthusiasm and an increase in the productive conversations in the Phore community. With a major part of this conversation being centred on the possibility of having the existing project as a different project with the major focus of having a decentralized e-commerce platform and another that would be centred around the development of synapse. The latter referred to as Synapse would take care of the workings of Sharding as well as the protocols responsible for seeing that it gains maximum functionality and workability. Phore has always been a community-driven project, hence, it takes into account any objective opinion or suggestion that comes from within its community. Although a final decision is yet to be made, according to the discussions in the Discord and telegram platforms, arguments have been made for and against this idea. Before we delve deeper into what these various arguments are, it is imperative that we go through a slight overview of what the Phore ecosystem offers and intends to offer in this regard.
Phore Vs Synapse
In the world of e-commerce today, we suffer a lot of significant setbacks, ranging from properly bridging the gap of cultural diversity to the acceptance of multiple currencies. Other barriers include tax laws and differences in government regulations across the globe. For this reason, Phore introduced a decentralized e-commerce solution that would tackle these challenges using blockchain.
Advantages such as breaking the monopoly enforced on sellers as a result of a centralised structure are among its strongest selling points. Other benefits such as the absence of platform/listing fee, a borderless payment system, increase in e-commerce inclusion and privacy are also areas that have proven to be appealing to potential users so far; this is one of the major features the existing Phore project offers.
Synapse, on the other hand, is the code name for the blockchain architecture technology of Phore, this invention was brought to life through the implementation of sharding. The term sharding simply refers to the splitting of the state of the network in smaller and faster partitions also known as shards, with their independent state and transaction history.
The implementation of sharding is what would enhance transaction throughput and scalability far beyond the regular speed of transaction we see today. On this architecture, operations such as token creation, smart contracts and unparalleled speed of transaction will be made possible. There are critical components that makeup synapse, they include the beacon module, the validator modules, shard modules, and relayer modules. Details on this, as well as its similarities in the implementation of ETH2.0, can be found here.
The deliberation within the community
Having seen the description above it is easier to understand why the Phore team had proposed a split. Both the e-commerce and sharding solution are broad enough to provide their own use cases and stand individually without having one overshadow the other. However, some of its community members think otherwise, visit the next article to see the interesting views shared by the community as well as counter-arguments from the team on which way to follow and why.
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