The founder of the ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, presented Friday at the Etheumeum of the EthCC conference in Paris a scale solution for Plasma, a system of intelligent contracts aimed at increasing the potential of calculation of the second largest blockchain in the world. ]

Created by the co-creator of Buterin and Bitcoin Lightning Network, Joseph Poon, last year, the scale solution is one of many under construction that aims to strengthen the capacity of Ethereum, working specifically by creating a layer of intelligent contracts. main blockchain.

But while the current iteration of the prototype requires all users to download and validate each smart contract in the Plasma system, in his new speech, Buterin has described a way to limit this to a handful of data points .

"The main benefit here is that the amount of data that customers have to process is drastically reduced," said Buterin.

Rather than downloading the entire plasma history, users could instead generate "plasma coins" by sending a deposit to the contract. So, rather than downloading and checking the entire Plasma, users can simply follow the tokens they've created in this system.

"Now users only need to check the availability and accuracy of the Plasma channel only at the specific index they want to spend, or the specific index of all the parts that they own and the parts that are important to them, "said Buterin.

Created by Buterin and developers Dan Robinson and Karl Floersch, the idea has not been tested yet. However, according to Buterin, this minimized system could have a number of important use cases, such as protecting cryptocurrency against large-scale hacks.

Rather than dealing directly with user funds, the vision is that trading could ensure backlog functionality and ensure losses through Plasma contracts.

"I hope that when the next multi-billion dollar exchange written by a totally incompetent developer is hacked, no one will lose money," Buterin said.

And most importantly, this discovery could help accelerate efforts to scale up at a time when the platform is under pressure to meet the demands of an expanding user base.

Naughty to this, Buterin said:

"It's just a simple way to make the plasma more scalable and dramatically reduce the need for use for regular users."

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