Create about-sui.md #757
Create about-sui.md #757
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Creating About Sui page with some elements of Announcing Sui blog post
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| Sui is the first layer 1 blockchain designed from the ground up to enable creators and developers to build experiences |
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Sui is a high performance, horizontally-scalable blockchain with no theoretical limits utilizing extremely low computation resources per transaction. It is designed from the ground-up to facilitate instant settlement, delivering the high throughput, low latency, and low cost needed to power applications for billions of users.
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instead of instant les use a weasel word that means very fast, but not instant. Constraints like speed of light, etc.
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I replaced instant with immediate. Please take a look. Thanks!
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| Sui scales horizontally as the demands of Dapps increase. Validators can add more workers to increase the networking, storage |
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I'm a bit nervous about some of these claims...
scales horizontally is a bit problematic. I'd prefer we just say "scales". The reasons I'm nervous:
- In a blockchain world it's not clear what "scales horizontally" means. Traditionally it means you add workers to the entire system, like more validators, but here we mean within a validator, so it's confusing.
- I don't think even our white paper really talks about scalability3.
- Lots of people will ask questions about this to which we don't have answers or internal agreement yet
@huitseeker can you verify the claim of Sui being the first POS smart contract chain that scales beyond VISA? This seems sure to attract lots of controversy. I would personally rather leave out the absolute language here and go for something like "very high performance, low latency" etc.
Solana here claims since 2019 or so they could do 200,000 TPS for example.
https://docs.solana.com/history
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@velvia this all came from formal marketing materials:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LXfY9BE5mdTiueJ2ApX4TtvbZ10-6L1vWOZxNG9by4I/edit#heading=h.bdiodxf0ddqm
Now at:
https://www.notion.so/mystenlabs/About-Sui-1fa1ee46684a44c493e7ee707b0a72fe
In fact, much greater claims are made there. :-) I will let you and Adeniyi suss this out. Thanks!
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See my concerns below about "horizontally scalable"
Closes MystenLabs#757 This makes filtering by narwhal package names easier. Also if we place Narwhal packages along with other packages, we would like to have non-ambiguous package and matching directory names. Adding narwhal- instead of narwhal_ prefix to match the style in Sui.
Creating About Sui page with some elements of Announcing Sui blog post