Cartesi and Matic Forge Partnership for Testnet Integration and Dispute Resolution R&D
We are pleased to announce that Cartesi will be partnering with Matic Network to enable greater responsiveness, faster transaction processing and lower transaction fees for DApps created on Cartesi. As part of our ongoing plan to have Cartesi DApps provide a seamless user and developer experience, we’re also pleased to announce that our Creepts DApp was successfully tested on Matic’s testnet. Matic will also be exploring using Cartesi for their Plasma exits.
Cartesi is a Layer 2 solution that combines computational scaling, together with a Linux operating system for DApps. Complex and intensive computations run off-chain, over massive amounts of data, while retaining decentralization and the security of the blockchain.
Matic Network is a Layer 2 solution for transaction scalability, utilizing an adapted version of Plasma MVP, secured by a network of PoS validators. Very low latency and high transaction throughput can be achieved without compromising the security and decentralization of the system.
Matic’s Plasma-based sidechain provides greater throughput (TPS) compared to the base blockchain. This empowers DApps with a much faster response time and significantly lower transaction fees. Cartesi Core operates on an orthogonal dimension of scalability. It allows for extremely large computations to be performed in a single transaction, where only the involved parties need to execute the computation. The locality of consensus brought about by Cartesi can take DApps developed with Cartesi and Matic to very high-performance metrics.
The second benefit of such integration is to bring to DApp developers the Linux runtime. Last month Cartesi successfully deployed Creepts on Matic’s Testnet. The integration is available on Cartesi’s GitHub here:
Finally, another promising area of research is the use of Cartesi’s dispute resolution algorithm on Plasma exits. Under fraudulent scenarios, Plasma users may decide to leave the Plasma chain and recourse to the mainchain in order to defend their interests. Currently, Plasma DApps that depend on computations (as opposed to simple monetary transfers) require a full replay on the main-chain in case of an exit. That means that Plasma computations can only provide the same level of security as the underlying blockchain if these computations can be reproduced on the main-chain. That makes them limited by the low computational scalability of the blockchain itself.
Cartesi, with its interactive dispute resolution protocol, will work with Matic to provide a cost-effective solution for intensive computations to be run on the Plasma chain while keeping the underlying security guarantees of the blockchain.
The Cartesi-Matic partnership is part of Cartesi’s continual emphasis on the mainstream adoption of blockchain tech. Cartesi is committed to a two-sided approach when delving into strategic partnerships, involving the blockchain ecosystem and traditional business and software organizations.
Important Links:
Website: https://cartesi.io
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GitHub: https://github.com/cartesi
