Translation: Blockchain in Vernacular
The Move chain is rising rapidly. @Aptos and @SuiNetwork are gaining traction quickly, while the upcoming @movementlabsxyz is also seeing steady growth on the testnet. All three chains use the Move language, but what are the differences behind the scenes?
Let’s find out.
1. Architecture
Both Aptos and Movement are linear blockchains, meaning blocks are generated sequentially and state changes are made incrementally through batched transactions.
At the same time, Sui adopts a DAG (directed acyclic graph) structure, which is similar to a network consisting of nodes and transactions, and transactions can reach consensus independently, thus ensuring high throughput.
2. Consensus and Transaction Confirmation Time (TTF)
All chains employ some form of Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) protocol.
AptosBFT improves efficiency by having nodes communicate only with the leader, and rotates the leader through a voting mechanism.
Sui’s Mysticeti allows a single validator to sign blocks and appoint multiple leaders, allowing more transactions to be submitted per block.
Mysticeti provides strong power for @SuiNetwork, significantly reduces transaction latency, and reduces the CPU requirements of Sui validators, giving Sui high throughput and strong resilience.
Movement uses Avalanche’s Snowman consensus mechanism, which requires majority agreement from a sample subset of validators and introduces delays when conflicting decisions occur.
These mechanisms affect the chain’s transaction confirmation time (TTF), with Sui having the fastest average TTF of about 0.5 seconds.
3. Transaction Processing and Transactions Per Second (TPS)
All chains use a parallel execution mechanism, allowing non-conflicting transactions to be processed simultaneously.
Aptos and Movement use Block-STM optimistic parallelization, assuming that all transactions can be processed in parallel and re-execute if an erroneous transaction is encountered.
Sui adopts a state access method that sorts the objects involved in the transaction, ensuring that transactions can be executed without conflicts after the validator confirms the transaction certificate.
As a result, Sui is able to process transactions more efficiently without re-execution, reducing the burden on hardware and thus improving the scalability of transactions per second (TPS).
4. Ecosystem
As the chain with the longest online time, Aptos currently has more ecological projects than Sui and Movement.
All chains are actively promoting builder communities and funding programs, and this groundwork could lead to significant growth in the coming months 👀
The following is a list of ecological projects of each chain:
http://aptosfoundation.org/ecosystem/projects
http://sui.directory
http://testnet.movementlabs.xyz/apps
Overall, we believe the Move ecosystem will continue to grow rapidly and look forward to seeing more progress.
