Ethereum Classic Labs Presents: Second State

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Ethereum Classic Labs
4 min readSep 27, 2019

Developer onboarding, that is the premise of what Second State is trying to achieve by creating key infrastructure technologies for public and enterprise blockchains. They provide turn-key blockchain and smart contract solutions that are programmable by its enterprise customers, optimized for business use cases, and completely open-source. Customers are able to create a second state blockchain network with a simple click. Within minutes, they will get managed blockchain nodes to execute smart contracts, host RPC services to access the blockchain, have online IDE for developing smart contracts and dapps, and much more.

Michael Yuan, CEO of Second State, realized that,

“Blockchain technology may be the future of money and business, but that future is NOT here yet because blockchain applications are so hard to develop and hard to use”.

Michael’s solution was Second State which develops infrastructure technologies and developer tools that make blockchain technologies easier to use by both developers and consumers.

A deeper dive into some of the tools Second State is offering:

BUIDL

Onboarding onto blockchain development is a very tedious task. There are multiple steps, installations, and processes a developer must go through before creating and testing DApps. BUIDL offers a fresh take on the current onboarding process. The new platform seamlessly combines the creation smart contract deployment to the blockchain under one tab in your web browser.

Smart Contract Search Engine

A significant choke point for many DApps is speed and efficiency. DApps require access to data stored on blockchains in real-time. Having a Smart Contract Search Engine offers a middleware between the full node and DApp. The search engine can provide an aggregated view of the smart contract, access the data within the contract, and display the necessary information.

Second State integrates with the ETC Community:

The Ethereum protocol is a widely adopted blockchain application protocol. However, the Ethereum blockchain is also incredibly congested. A transaction could take hours to complete at a significant cost in gas fees to clear, which limits development and causes roadblocks. This situation is not expected to improve until Ethereum 2.0 goes online, which could be months or perhaps years away.

The Ethereum Classic blockchain is 100% compliant with the Ethereum protocol. It has a large market capitalization with a long history of stable operations and it is 100 times faster and much much cheaper than the Ethereum blockchain. All this makes Ethereum Classic already a very attractive target for developers. Add to this the innovations Second State is implementing and developers may find the Ethereum Classic Blockchain to be irresistible.

The Future of Ethereum Classic

Second State has a goal of reaching 1 million developers, and becoming the de facto infrastructure software provider for most public blockchains in the world. To do this, they are working closely with Ethereum Classic Labs and the ETC Community to coordinate the release of multiple products in the near future. The two major projects to be released are BUIDL for ETC and Smart Contract Search Engine for ETC.

BUIDL for ETC was announced this week, and you can find the full details here. The Smart Contract Search Engine is set to release in early October. Both releases will have easy to follow videos that will help onboard users to the Second State Platform. To find out more about Second State and to see demonstrations of their products, reserve your seats at the upcoming ETC Summit in Vancouver, Canada this October.

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