Off-Chain Compute Is All You Need — Emperor

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Blockchains are globally distributed ledgers that come to a consensus over a global state. Some blockchains come equipped with a Turing-complete execution environment that enables programmability on top of this global state. Programs that target blockchains’ execution environments are called smart contracts, and the underlying blockchains are called smart contract platforms. Ethereum, Solana, and Avalanche are some of the most widely known smart contract platforms. We can think of smart contract platforms as distributed computers, with the execution environment (or virtual machine) acting like the CPU and the state performing the role of storage. This framing of blockchains as computers will be important to motivate why coprocessors/off-chain compute is inevitable, especially in the context of blockchains. In traditional computing, coprocessors originated in microarchitecture to enhance performance. Similarly, coprocessors on Ethereum promise access to historical data and high-performa

Towards a Proof-Based Future - Written with 0xkrane . Introduction Blockchains are globally distributed ledgers that come to a consensus over a global state. Some blockchains come equipped with a Turing-complete execution environment that enables programmability on top of this global state. Programs that target blockchains’ execution environments are called smart contracts, and the underlying blockchains are called smart contract platforms. Ethereum, Solana, and Avalanche are some of the most widely known smart contract platforms. We can think of smart contract platforms as distributed compute

Off-Chain Compute Is All You Need — Emperor

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