March To Mainnet Update: The Countdown is ON!

Join us for a 15-day countdown and celebrate together

Dear Community,

Following the closing of the Hard Fork Contest, we are excited to confirm the launch of Mainnet on February 3, just 15 days from now! This grand debut of the Bluzelle network will mark the arrival of decentralized storage that can operate at massive scale, with super low latency, and with industry-changing anti-censorship features.

Bluzelle enables dApps on any blockchain to securely store their data without having to rely on centralized data centers. Our soft mainnet was launched back in August, which has now surpassed 2 million blocks and attracted extensive participation from the Bluzelle community. The mainnet is already being used by several teams keen on building real applications that can benefit from Bluzelle’s database.

The release of the Bluzelle mainnet follows the success of two incentivized testnets last July (Swarm of Duty 1) and December (Swarm of Duty 2), in which its networks was stress-tested and battle-tested for bugs, weaknesses, etc. Notably, Bluzelle set industry records with 200+ validators choosing to participate in these testnets.

The production mainnet is a hard fork from the soft mainnet, meaning that users who have been interacting with the latter can easily switch to and stake in the former — all existing accounts are being ported over transparently.

To recap, we have implemented a series of enhancements to security and speed from the Soft Mainnet:

• Support for SSL on all sentries, BigDipper & Census. Every aspect of the Bluzelle network and interface are HTTPS encrypted. This is the standard for web-based security.
• Increased flexibility for validators with updated jailing criteria
• Optimized gas algorithm and tax module for ideal and fair economic usage of network and healthier revenue streams for the community
• Support for transaction batching that vastly improves TPS (transactions per second) for the network. TPS is a critical competitive advantage for our Mainnet.
• Many more security measures for the Bluzelle Bridge to make it more resilient to failures arising from the multiple networks it interacts with. A prelude to bridging to other networks in the future.

Mainnet Features:

• Block rewards: validators will win a portion of the collective fees in each block.
• Slashing: validators with bad behaviour will be jailed and slashed. This ensures validators are incentivized to behave and act responsibly
• Bluzelle Bridge: Swapping back from native BLZ to ERC20 BLZ will open. This feature will be operated initially in a manual mode during the early stage. This will transition to auto mode when it has run without interruption in the new mainnet environment
• Client support for dApps & other users of BluzelleDB: this will allow searching for keys with prefixes, and filtering key-value pairs by data owner, pagination, and other advanced features. These features bring Bluzelle into parity with competing databases and makes the DB viable for serious production software.
• BluzelleStudio: the visual data explorer app allowing BluzelleDB users to manage their data easily from a web browser or even a smartphone.

In the next few days, we will release the Bluzelle Features blog series to explain each of these in in-depth details.

Counting down to Mainnet

While the exact block height for the Mainnet launch will be announced nearer to the date, we are just 15 days away! This is a great time to thank our epic community for being part of this journey and celebrate the milestone together! We would like to invite our community to join a series of events organized by the Bluzelle team. Moreover, if you are a long-term Bluzelle supporter of Bluzelle and are excited to help our community to explore the future of Bluzelle by hosting your own meetups, conferences, AMAs and so on, please reach out to us and we will offer our best help in participating and promoting your events!

Looking Beyond Mainnet — Scaling up and outwardly to win the database race

Following the launch of Bluzelle mainnet, we will continue with Polkadot integration, making Bluzelle interoperable with a whole universe of other blockchains. Bluzelle is bringing decentralized database capabilities to projects building on Polkadot’s Substrate framework, enabling dApps to store and access their data in a decentralized fashion. To date, Bluzelle’s partners in the Polkadot ecosystem have included Equilibrium, MANTRA DAO, and Phala Network. Bluzelle’s database services will become available on both the Polkadot mainnet and its test-network counterpart, Kusama. Both the Polkadot DOT token and Kusama KSM tokens will be usable to pay for Bluzelle services.

Powered by Cosmos and its BFT Tendermint consensus engine, Bluzelle is a delegated Proof of Stake (dPoS) blockchain with the capability to process 10,000 transactions per second and interoperate across any chain. It will also include massive horizontal scaling of the network’s storage capacity, with the addition of multiple “sibling” blockchains (called zones) spanning different geographies worldwide, all interconnected via a Bluzelle “Hub” blockchain. These zones will enable Bluzelle’s TPS to increase multifold, but equally importantly, enable Bluzelle’s storage capacity to scale to virtually no limits. TPS is key in the database space to compete with and outperform competitors and Bluzelle is poised to win that competition in the blockchain space.

The next phase of our development, following the mainnet launch, will see the evolution of Bluzelle’s industry-first next-generation Oracles and the expansion of its developer grant program. Unique to Bluzelle, these oracles will be baked directly into the blockchain, and use a multi-layer mathematical filtering process to provide oracle data feeds that are superior in accuracy and integrity to anything that is currently available.

About Bluzelle

Powered by a Byzantine fault-tolerant cluster of blockchains customized specifically for database operations, Bluzelle is a decentralized database for Web3. Its advanced data delivery network promises to protect businesses from data breaches, network failures and performance troubles. Bluzelle effectively serves as an “Airbnb of databases,” with developers paying for storage space and read/write access to the decentralized database. Secure, tamper-proof, censorship-proof, and highly scalable, Bluzelle is in the process of developing data feeds and oracles for the next phase of its evolution to help bring about a faster and more secure internet.

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