Whiteblock, the leaders in blockchain testing, is analyzing performance, identifying optimizations, and ensuring the production readiness of the Avalanche protocol implementation. This analysis will include a variety of stress tests, load tests, and practical security tests, which are vital to ensuring the correctness and performance of peer-to-peer protocols like Avalanche.
Since 2017, Whiteblock has established itself as the leader in blockchain testing with clientele ranging from the Ethereum Foundation to the Department of Defense. Its team and technology solve some of the biggest challenges for developers testing blockchain systems, as testing peer-to-peer protocols have proven notoriously difficult given the complexities of replicating real-world scenarios with decentralized networks.
With Whiteblock, blockchain projects can reliably test their networks’ performance in production-type environments decentralized systems. Through its advanced testing methodologies, projects can then identify areas for further improvement, equip themselves for launch, and avoid potential issues post-launch.
“As we’re finalizing preparations and moving closer to mainnet, Whiteblock’s testing capabilities are a key component to optimizing Avalanche for a global, decentralized launch.” — Kevin Sekniqi of Ava Labs.
Whiteblock Genesis Testing on Avalanche
By leveraging Whiteblock’s Genesis platform, a product that helps developers automate practical performance and security testing for Web3 systems in a controlled environment, a private Avalanche test network can be bootstrapped to consist of hundreds or thousands of Avalanche.go nodes that can each be granularly controlled.
Once provisioned, the links between each Avalanche.go node are configured to emulate a globally-distributed network at scale. Implementing particular bandwidth constraints, latencies, and other network characteristics to understand performance under both average and extreme network conditions.
“Avalanche is an exciting new project in our space with a revolutionary consensus mechanism. Using Genesis to evaluate this system and identify its limits in a deterministic testing environment will be very interesting. Our team is thrilled to be working on this next-generation of blockchain technology and hope to contribute to a seamless launch for Ava Labs.” — Zak Cole, CEO of Whiteblock.
Continually Improving the Security and Performance of Avalanche
Like all open-source projects, Avalanche will need the contributions of leading builders in the blockchain ecosystem to ensure the platform’s success. In the spirit of open innovation, we are calling on you to build and improve Avalanche.
In addition to Avalanche-X grants for testing, Avalanche has opportunities for developers to contribute through programs like our bug bounty or contributing directly to our GitHub repo. With the Everest testnet underway, we’re excited to see new community-led improvements. As always, please feel free to join our vibrant developer-focused community on our Discord.
About Whiteblock
Whiteblock has established itself as the leader in blockchain testing. Whiteblock’s testing and development services help projects measure and validate key performance metrics, such as transactional throughput, as well as ensure the security and production readiness of their systems or protocols. Whiteblock leverages the use of its Genesis platform, a SaaS product that helps developers automate practical performance and security testing for Web3 systems in a controlled environment that provides accurate insights to help reduce risk and save time.
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About Avalanche
Avalanche is an open-source platform for launching decentralized finance applications and enterprise blockchain deployments in one interoperable, highly scalable ecosystem. Developers who build on Avalanche can easily create powerful, reliable, and secure applications and custom blockchain networks with complex rulesets or build on existing private or public subnets.
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