SF Blockchain Week | Panel: Challenge & Future of Blockchain Sharding

Sharding is one of the hottest topics in the blockchain community today. As one of the most promising scaling solution for throughput of a public blockchain by increasing transactions per second (tps) from less than 30 tps to over 30,000 tps, sharding has enabled many innovative solutions for the blockchain industry in the past year.

Oct 9th, from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm at SoMa, SF

ABC Blockchain community has invited CTOs of 4 different projects focusing on blockchain sharding solutions, to discuss the its technology, challenges and the future.

RSVP to join us discussing and answering questions about the current state of cutting edge technologies of different sharding solution. We will be discussing highly technical topics such as:

1. How do different types of transaction models(UTXO vs Account Model) affect sharding solutions?
2. How does different consensus protocol affect sharding solutions?
3. What’s the biggest challenge in Blockchain Sharding for now?
4. Is sharding better than a two-layer solution? Does layer one sharding really make sense?
5. What are some benchmarking techniques for different sharding solutions?

Speakers

Rongjian Lan

Rongjian Lan was a search infrastructure engineer for Play Store at Google. He published over 10 academic papers on spatio-temporal querying and map-based visualization. He is the co-chair of ABC blockchain Community with more than 500 members from Google, Facebook, LInkedin. He was a doctoral candidate of Computer Science at University of Maryland College Park and obtained his bachelor’s degree from University of Science and Technology Beijing.

Harmony Project Intro

Harmony is the next generation high-performance blockchain which leverages sharding technology and efficient consensus protocol to achieve high throughput while maintaining both security and decentralization.

David Chen

MOAC Blockchain Project co-founder and Jingtum Blockchain Project co-founder. Currently CEO of MOAC Blockchain Tech Co. in Palo Alto. He got his MS of Physics from Zhejiang University and MS of Computer Science from Univ. of California, Riverside.

He is an full-stack blockchain expert of over 18 years experience in architecture, algorithm, network security, Database, mobile applications, network protocol, etc. He has hands-on experience on blockchain technology since year 2013. He is the designer of MOAC project. He proposed sharding technology on top of public blockchain and have already implemented in MOAC blockchain. He also proposed solution for atomic swap between blockchains and generic solution for any cross-chain communications. He also deisnged the DAPP-oriented layered Blockchain architicture. He is the first one who brought up the concept of Microchain as a service. He has submitted more than 10 blockchain related patent applications.

MOAC Project Intro

MOAC is a third-generation blockchain platform originating from the World IT Center in Silicon Valley. The unique layered architecture and Microchain technology greatly increases the scalability of the platform. Dedicated networks such as those that use blockchain models can easily be linked together, making connecting and testing new blockchain products more efficient. This is where “the Mother of All Chains” gets its name.

By separating balance transfers and smart contracts, the MOAC platform’s advanced, multi-blockchain layered architecture increases the overall transaction speed up to 100x faster than Ethereum. The MOAC architecture consists of the MotherChain, an event handling system, smart contracts as MicroChains, blockchain sharding, cross-chain capabilities, security, and an API.

Qi Zhou

Founder of QuarkChain, software engineer & expert in high-performance systems with over 15 years of development experience. He is a former Googler and has obtained PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology.

QuarkChain Project Intro

QuarkChain is a flexible, scalable, and user-friendly blockchain infrastructure by using blockchain sharding technology, that could incorporate state-of-the-art blockchain innovations, and satisfy needs from a variety of industries.

QuarkChain makes 3 major contributions to blockchain sharding:

• QuarkChain partitions the blockchain system state with the inspirations of mature centralized sharding technologies such as Google’s notable BigTable.
• QuarkChain develops a novel consensus — Bosons consensus to store per-shard state and process all transactions of all shards in a decentralized and secure way.
• QuarkChain natively supports interoperability among shards and allow a user to access all resources in all shards seamlessly.

We wish to see all of you there.