Supra provides innovative technical paths to solve many challenges in the existing blockchain ecosystem.
Written by: Pzai, Foresight News
In the development of blockchain technology architecture, we have experienced a transition from Bitcoin's UTXO model to Ethereum's smart contracts, leading to countless application scenarios. However, in the existing public chain ecosystem, the interoperability issues among 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 a Layer 1 platform with all key functions built-in, while adopting a 'tribe' and 'clan' hierarchical network model and a self-developed Moonshot consensus engine to enhance the system's resilience, security, and processing speed. This article analyzes from multiple perspectives how Supra provides innovative technical paths to solve many challenges in the existing blockchain ecosystem.
Vertical integration
In the existing blockchain ecosystem, many public chains typically integrate consensus, data availability, and execution functions within the core network, delegating other infrastructures (such as oracles, cross-chain communication, on-chain randomness, etc.) to other protocols, which can lead to increased integration complexity, security risks, and rising development costs. Supra L1, through vertical integration, directly embeds key services such as oracles, cross-chain communication, automation, and on-chain randomness (VRF) into L1, ensuring all services share consistent security and avoiding delays and security issues in traditional cross-chain communication.
Supra Container: Efficient combination and diversified ecosystem
Most existing blockchain applications have ecological dependencies and face certain limitations in multi-chain interoperability and liquidity access, with the independence of each application impacted by execution and economic models, limiting the expansion and development of use cases within a single application. However, dApps built on the Supra chain can fully utilize the elasticity and flexibility of L2 while maintaining application chain independence through containerization technology. In the container, developers can customize governance and incentive models according to their needs and leverage L1's liquidity advantages to improve the transaction efficiency of applications. Moreover, Supra offers various vertically integrated services, such as automated networks and random number generators, which can help developers deploy applications faster and enhance their performance and security.
For underlying blockchain execution, there are numerous virtual machine solutions on the market, while Supra's Multi-VM design expands the platform's applicability. Currently, Supra supports multiple mainstream virtual machines such as MoveVM, EVM (and will support Solana VM and Cosmos VM in the future). Developers from different ecosystems can easily migrate their applications to Supra without needing to reprogram, while utilizing high throughput and low latency performance, thereby improving interoperability among smart contracts.
Moonshot consensus and proof mechanism
Currently, many L1s are struggling to balance throughput and finality, while Supra's Moonshot consensus protocol is a randomized single-leader rotation protocol based on Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) mechanism, which improves transaction processing efficiency through parallel workflows. This protocol adopts a resilient design that can be adjusted according to different needs, achieving high throughput of 500,000 transactions per second and sub-second consensus latency. In addition, 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 once a node submits a block proposal, it assumes that this proposal will be accepted and continues to send requests to the next block proposal. If other nodes agree with this proposal, it will be included in the next block. This way, nodes can directly enter the next consensus process under the expectation of a positive outcome, avoiding unnecessary waiting 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
'Tribe - Clan' node management architecture adopts a layered and randomized approach to node management, where the tribe represents a collective of numerous large nodes, while the clan represents a randomly selected collection of small nodes within the tribe. Small nodes are randomly selected within the tribe to form clans, ensuring that the risk of Byzantine behavior at each layer is controlled 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 be executed in parallel. This mechanism ensures that the Supra network can operate normally even when Byzantine nodes are compromised, improving multidimensional computing and execution efficiency, while the unique architecture enhances scalability and security through parallel execution at the network and node levels. The random node recombination set in L1 ensures security, while the randomness based on VRF 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 the capital risk of participants to the incentive mechanism, designing customized incentive methods based on the risk and use of capital to attract long-term capital into network construction. This mechanism supports various digital assets to participate in liquidity pools, providing a more diverse source of capital while reducing 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, maximizing the use of capital across multiple scenarios and improving capital efficiency.
Team and project progress
The Supra team has a certain academic foundation, led by Dr. Aniket Kate, an inventor and cryptographer committed to KZG, serving as Chief Research Officer. The KZG commitment technology plays a core role in Ethereum's expansion roadmap. Supra has just launched the MoveVM mainnet and will soon release the EVM version. As of now, Supra has launched over 50 dApps and is in talks with more than 100 dApps, established a $100 million ecosystem fund, and launched a community-based project showcase event named Super dApp Showdown, where the community and VC judges will select winners each season, who can directly receive ecosystem funds.
Conclusion
Under the grand environment 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 among different public chains have become urgent issues to be solved. Supra, as a Layer 1 platform, attempts to provide a solution with built-in key functions through vertical integration, supporting multiple virtual machines (such as MoveVM, EVM), aiming to facilitate the migration of applications from different tech stacks to its platform while providing developers with a highly flexible and secure decentralized platform, maintaining good performance. In the future, Supra's technological innovations will bring more possibilities to developers, accelerating the application and development of various blockchain applications globally.