TrueBit Code Review: Scalable Blockchain Verification
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TrueBit Code Review: Scalable Blockchain Verification

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I adulation this. Adulation it. Go to the website and you’ll see why, it’s like attractive at 1993 and I affirm they had to get their accomplishments colour akin at a hospital. Adulation it.

Well looks aren’t aggregate so I’ll put my amore to one ancillary and focus on the TrueBit cipher review. They’ve been alive on this a while and it shows. “Panopticomputers”, alone acceptance blockchains back article goes amiss or back awful complex, so that every transaction is not bottleneck up the network, “outsourcing” computations to a “trustless accord computer”.

So the actual purpose of broadcast balance technology is to advance a absolute almanac of the accomplished so that there can be no altercation over the balance entries. And Ethereum blockchain nodes accordingly accommodate all affairs anytime recorded (not accepting into arguments about Eth Classic here).

TrueBit is a acute arrangement that sends ‘client’ computations alfresco of the Ethereum arrangement back they ability a assertive complication (rational miner paradox), acceptance them through a arguable bread-and-butter apparatus (see whitepaper) if there is a altercation or artlessly abiding the apple-pie transaction to the chain, already verified, if there is no dispute.

Either way the verifier is adored appropriately, creating incentives for the applicant and the computational account provider. This provides..

“A scalable analysis band-aid for blockchains”

“Secure, scalable, decentralized computation” and

“TrueBit gives Ethereum acute affairs a computational boost.”

Very alive repo.

We alpha with wasm-computation-layer. This for now is mostly emsdk (emscripten). It is interacting with ocaml-offchain somehow, active aggravating to amount this allotment out.

Ok, so emscripten is affiliated with empscripten-module-wrapper. This allows the arrangement to almanac abstracts for absolute computations.

We alpha at main.js

Lot’s of pre-definitions for altered environments (running in web/on node/etc)

So abundant accident in main.js

Great documentation. A lot of this is emscripten boiler bowl though, so it’s a bit difficult to differentiate.

Need to dig in added here.

I charge to alpha from addition angle, let’s alpha with Truebit OS

deploy-wasm goes to ./wasm-client/deploy.sh
truebit goes to node ./cli/index.js

Let’s accept a attending at deploy.sh first

We accept ocaml-offchain again, webasm-solidity, and again the js files, let’s dig into them.

Deploy does a npm run arrange on webasm-solidity, we will arch over there aloof now.

Interesting, merkleComputer = webasm-solidity/merkle-computer and ocaml-offchain interpreter.

I consistently wondered why best of their assignment was in javascript, but it’s heavily chip with web3.js, so it makes sense.

Gets the assignment acquaint accident as anon as addition registers an beheading assignment with the ethereum acute arrangement (although it could additionally aloof be run locally off-chain or in a truebit os).

Can grab cipher locally, on-chain, or from IPFS, again setupVM. VM executes the WASM assignment in a merkleComputer (webasm-solidity above, we will get into it shortly)

Specific accomplish in the VM are called for altercation resolution (all beheading doesn’t occur)

This is good.

Still a lot I accept to go through here, but I will achieve this for now.

TrueBit Code Review Conclusion:

Really abundant code. Abundant solution. Will acquiesce for decentralized accretion that can calibration with bulge participation. Really absurd idea, concept, and implementation. The band-aid doesn’t charge its own token, ETH is acceptable abundant for it, but added than that, this is fantastic.

Really abundant code. I will still charge to go through this absolutely a bit, the accomplishment ability is actual high.

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TrueBit Code Review Timestamp: August 25th 2024