Time: Feb 15th, 2022, 13:00 UTC
Gate.io hosted an AMA (Ask-Me-Anything) session with representatives of Alephium in the Gate.io Exchange Community.
Official Website: https://alephium.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/alephium
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Guests
Cheng Wang — CEO/Founder
Settoshi Tonami — Community Lead
Hi! I’m Cheng Wang, founder of Alephium. I came from China to Switzerland 8 years ago to do my PhD in Computer science at the EPFL.
I did research on consensus algorithms and byzantine fault tolerance, which brought me to Bitcoin. A few years later I started experimenting with Ethereum and DeFi.
Among other things, I built a flash-loan protocol called UniFlash. Diving deeper, I realized existing blockchains are facing big challenges.
I got passionate and started building to solve the most exciting problem in the field : which infrastructure for the next 10 years of Dapps & DeFi ?
We’ve started building Alephium in 2018 with idea to deliver a “scalable Bitcoin” with a reliable and powerful DeFi solution:
Bitcoin is secure, decentralized, but it consumes too much energy and it is not easily programmable.
Ethereum is programmable, convenient, but it is hard to use securely. And both are relatively slow.
Alephium solves the famous blockchain trilemma elegantly:
Thanks to Proof of Less Work, it is decentralized and energy efficient.
Thanks to stateful UTXO & sharding, it is programmable, secure & scalable.
More here : https://wiki.alephium.org/Frequently-Asked-Questions.html
Alephium is the first live Layer 1 sharded blockchain scaling and improving on Bitcoin core technologies, Proof of Work & UTXO. It delivers a highly performant, secure DeFi & Dapps platform with enhanced energy efficiency.
Alephium delivers a scalable dApp &DeFi platform that is as secure as Bitcoin, as programmable as Ethereum while keeping decentralization & trustlessness as core values.
More here :
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& here
https://hackernoon.com/what-is-sharding-and-utxo-scaling-for-blockchain
Sure! ALPH is our official ticker, and we’ve been trading happily on Gate.io for more than a month already. As of today, the total circulating supply is around 48M ALPH.
Trade here : gate.io/trade/ALPH_USDT
At mainnet launch (last november), 140M ALPH were minted with the Genesis block and allocated to : sales (80M = 8%), community & ecosystem development (30M = 3%) and team & development (30M = 3%). These tokens have verifiable on-chain locks with vesting periods ranging from 2 to 4 years.
The rest of the tokens (86%) will be used for mining rewards and ensure the processing of transactions on the Alephium blockchain over the next 80 years.
Read more on our tokenomics here :
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Our team of 14 is busy grinding and building everyday, we are now focused on the following :
Full node 🏭 enters the maturity phase, we are working on more optimizations and features, as well as improvements in UX for dApps devs.
Bridges 🌉 are a key component of the project’s ecosystem as they will provide interoperability between Alephium and other blockchains.
dApps 🧰 We are focusing on tooling for dApps use cases like 💸 DeFi and are building a 🐒 NFT platform proof of concept! Get ready to mint!
Wallet 💌 Our wallet will see a lot of improvements, including browser extension & hook for dApps.
Mining Pools ⛏ We love mining pools, and they love us back ! We keep improving the mining experience of pools, large and small and will keep doing so with the help of our amazing mining community! More than 8 awesome mining pools have sprung up already!
Explorer 🔭 Better readability, more metrics & a lot more improvements per request of the community !
Listings ⚖️ After our first listing (welcome gate.io !), we keep pushing for more listings ! Stay tuned !
Strategic partnerships 🤝 We will keep looking for new partners for the Alephium family, they help us grow, they challenge us, they open doors for us !
Marketing & awareness 🗣 We keep pushing for qualified awareness, organic growth and community development.
Read more about it here :
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🛠 If you’re a dev, start here :
Here’s our latest code update :
https://github.com/alephium/alephium/releases/latest/
Come commit and pull request with us : https://github.com/alephium
Wiki : https://github.com/alephium/wiki
⛏If you’re a miner, start here !
Start by joining the dedicated Mining channel on discord :
https://discord.gg/53QSMpKZyR
Find our Miner starter pack on Github :
https://github.com/alephium/alephium-miner-getting-started
The list of all mining pools is updated here.