Supra provides innovative technological pathways to address many challenges in the existing blockchain ecosystem.

Written by: Pzai, Foresight News

In the development of blockchain technology architecture, we have gone through the transition from Bitcoin's UTXO model to Ethereum's smart contracts, deriving countless application scenarios based on that foundation. However, in the existing public chain ecosystem, interoperability issues between different architectures are becoming increasingly prominent. In response to this challenge, the L1 public chain Supra has built a vertically integrated blockchain solution that provides all key functionalities in a vertically integrated Layer 1 platform while employing a hierarchical network model of 'tribes' and 'clans' along with its independently developed Moonshot consensus engine to enhance the system's elasticity, security, and processing speed. This article analyzes from multiple perspectives how Supra offers innovative technological pathways to address many challenges in the existing blockchain ecosystem.

Vertical Integration

In the existing blockchain ecosystem, many public chain designs typically integrate consensus, data availability, and execution functions within the core network, while delegating other infrastructures (such as oracles, cross-chain communication, on-chain randomness, etc.) to other protocols. This can lead to increased integration complexity, security risks, and rising development costs. Supra L1, through vertical integration, directly embeds critical services such as oracles, cross-chain communication, automation, and on-chain randomness (VRF) into L1, allowing all services to share consistent security and avoiding delays and security issues found in traditional cross-chain communications.

Supra Containers: Efficient Combination and Diversified Ecosystem

Most existing blockchain applications have ecological dependencies and certain limitations on multi-chain interoperability and liquidity access, and the independence of each application is influenced by execution and economic models, limiting the development of use case expansion within a single application. However, dApps built on the Supra chain can fully utilize L2's elasticity and flexibility while maintaining application chain independence through containerization technology. In the container, developers can customize governance and incentive models according to their needs and leverage the liquidity advantages of L1 to enhance the transaction efficiency of their applications. Moreover, Supra also provides various vertically integrated services, such as automated networks and random number generators, which help developers to deploy applications faster and improve their performance and security.

For blockchain layer execution, the virtual machine solutions available in the market are diverse, while Supra's Multi-VM design expands the platform's applicability. Currently, Supra supports multiple mainstream virtual machines such as MoveVM and EVM (with future support for Solana VM and Cosmos VM). Developers from different ecosystems can easily migrate their applications to Supra without the need for reprogramming while leveraging high throughput and low latency performance, enhancing interoperability among smart contracts.

Moonshot Consensus and Proof Mechanism

Currently, many L1 solutions are striving to balance throughput and finality, while Supra's Moonshot consensus protocol is a random single-leader rotation protocol based on Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) mechanisms, and it improves transaction processing efficiency through parallelized workflows. This protocol employs a resilient design that can be adjusted based on different needs to achieve high throughput of 500,000 transactions per second and sub-second consensus latency. Additionally, Supra has rigorously proven the security of the Moonshot consensus protocol using formal verification methods, ensuring its correctness and reliability.

The Moonshot consensus protocol adopts an optimistic proposal mechanism, meaning that when a node submits a block proposal, it assumes that the proposal will be accepted and continues to send requests to propose the next block. If other nodes agree with this proposal, it will be included in the next block. This allows nodes to directly enter the next step of the consensus process under the expectation of a positive outcome, thus avoiding unnecessary wait times. Additionally, since the transmission, sorting, and execution of transactions can run in parallel, it effectively reduces processing time. This separation mechanism lowers the system's reliance on honest nodes, minimizing the proportion of honest nodes required for consensus.

‘Tribe - Clan’ Architecture: Hierarchical Node Management and Parallel Execution

The 'Tribe - Clan' node management architecture employs a hierarchical and randomized approach to node management, where the tribe represents a collective of numerous large nodes, and the clan represents a randomly selected collection of small nodes within the tribe. Randomly selected small nodes within the tribe form the clan, ensuring that the Byzantine behavior risk at each layer is kept to a minimum, providing high elasticity and robustness. Node resources will be dynamically allocated based on demand, with different tasks assigned to different clans that can execute in parallel. This mechanism ensures that the Supra network can maintain normal operations even in the event of Byzantine node interference, and improves multidimensional computation and execution efficiency. The unique architecture enhances scalability and security by achieving parallel execution at the network and node levels. The random node reshuffling set in L1 ensures security, while VRF-based randomness increases resistance to targeted attacks.

Left: User transaction flow in Supra Right: ‘Tribe - Clan’ Architecture

PoEL Economic Liquidity Proof Mechanism

PoEL (Proof of Economic Liquidity) is Supra's unique incentive mechanism that links participants' capital risks with the incentive mechanism. It designs customized incentive methods based on the risks and uses of capital to attract long-term capital investment into network construction. This mechanism supports various digital assets participating in liquidity pools, providing a more diverse source of capital, and reduces the impact of asset volatility on network security through risk management measures.

At the same time, PoEL allows capital to earn staking rewards while providing liquidity in liquidity pools, ensuring that capital is fully utilized in multiple scenarios, thereby improving capital efficiency.

Team and Project Progress

The Supra team has a solid academic foundation, led by Dr. Aniket Kate, the inventor and cryptographer of KZG commitment, serving as the Chief Research Officer. The KZG commitment technology plays a core role in Ethereum's scaling roadmap. Supra has just launched the MoveVM mainnet and will soon release the EVM version. Currently, Supra has launched over 50 dApps and is negotiating with over 100 dApps, has launched a $100 million ecosystem fund, and initiated a community-based project showcase event named Super dApp Showdown, where community and VC judges will select winners each season, who can directly receive funds from the ecosystem.

Conclusion

In the broader context of the blockchain ecosystem, both users and developers need to integrate to access better services on the underlying architecture. In the current diverse blockchain ecosystem, the interoperability and integration complexity between different public chains have become pressing issues to address. As a Layer 1 platform, Supra aims to provide a solution with built-in key functionalities through vertical integration and supports multiple virtual machines (such as MoveVM, EVM) to facilitate the migration of applications from different technology stacks to its platform, offering developers a highly flexible and secure decentralized platform while maintaining good performance. In the future, Supra's technological innovations will bring more possibilities to developers and accelerate the application and development of various blockchain applications worldwide.