Zilliqa官方公告
亲爱的Zilliqa社区成员：
Zilliqa 团队致力于构建一个安全、可扩展和去中心化的区块链平台。在链下、侧链和其他所有当前的区块链扩容方案中，我们认为分片技术极有潜力实现区块链的线性扩展。我们很高兴地发布了全世界首个运用分片技术的区块链测试网，让区块链分片落地成为现实。
与此同时，我们也新完成了对智能合约分片的重要设计，这一设计将在 Zilliqa 首版产品中亮相。智能合约的分片将确保涉及智能合约的交易在各分片和DS委员会间并行处理。并且所涉协议对运行的 Scilla 智能合约类型没有任何限制。我们将于近期发布博客文章介绍这一架构。
自2017年8月发布技术白皮书以来, Zilliqa不断取得新的进展并在开发过程中修改了部分初始设计, 加入了新的技术, 使协议更加高效、安全。例如, 我们将原先白皮书中写的两种PoW合为一种，用状态更改共享取代了原始交易数据共享等。通常，这种修改需要对系统部分内容进行重新设计。
过去几周, 为了加入新技术增强网络性能，我们就是否更改路线图进行了深入并且广泛的讨论。最终，我们得出结论，项目需要更多时间来保证代码被核心团队、社区和专业审计公司全面核校。此外，我们还将利用新增的时间来:
-进行彻底的安全审核
-准备和执行token映射
-整合钱包
-开发工具链
-继续开发生态，带来更多的分布式应用
我们将尽快向社区发布主网上线新的路线图。现阶段，我们设定的目标是今年底或者明年1月。我们对推迟上线深表歉意，但我们坚信这一决定对项目的长远未来是最有利的，也希望得到你们的支持和理解。
Zilliqa团队
Dear community members,
The Zilliqa team is committed to building a secure, scalable and decentralized blockchain platform. Amongst all existing solutions to achieve scalability such as off-chain, sidechains and others, we believe that sharding is a very promising one towards linear scalability. We are happy to have made sharding a reality by releasing the first testnet network that is sharded.
We have also finalized the design to run smart contracts on a sharded architecture which will be incorporated in the first production release of Zilliqa. This design ensures that transactions involving smart contracts can be processed in parallel across shards and the directory service committee. The entailed protocol will have no restrictions on the type of Scilla smart contracts that can be run. We will soon be releasing a blog post to explain the architecture that we have started to implement.
Since the release of our technical whitepaper back in August 2017, we have come a long way and have modified part of the initial design and implemented new techniques to make the protocol more performant and more secure. For instance, we have merged the two PoWs (as outlined in the whitepaper) into a single PoW. We have also replaced raw transaction data sharing with state-change sharing. Oftentimes, such modifications to the protocol design required a complete re-design of certain parts of the system.
In the past few weeks, we have had extensive discussions to review the timeline in light of these enhancements. Unfortunately, we will need more time to ensure that the code gets properly tested by the core team, the community and last but not the least, established auditing firms. We will also be leveraging the additional time to:
- Conduct thorough security audits
- Prepare for and execute the token swap
- Integrate with wallets
- Develop toolchains
- Bring more dapps onboard
We will be updating the community about the mainnet timeline along the way. At this stage, we are targeting end of this year or January 2019. We apologize for the delay but we firmly believe that it is in the best interest of the long-term future of the project and would like to seek your support and understanding.
Sincere thoughts,
The Zilliqa Team
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