By Brady Dale
The original | www.coindesk.com/polkadot-ga…
“It’s important to support these protocols and programming languages that need to be passed down, and that’s what we’re doing,” the former Ethereum developer said.
Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) is leading the way among blockchain developers. That’s why Gavin Wood says it’s important that his Polkadot blockchain system supports EVM — at least for the foreseeable future.
Gavin Wood was the lead developer at the time ethereum was created, and is now the founder of Parity Technologies, which created Polkadot and is rolling out connected “parallel chains”. EVM enables smart contracts to run on Ethereum, which is known for promoting innovation. Gavin Wood says that when the original team created Ethereum, they tried not to stray too far from what the world was familiar with at the time, which was Bitcoin.
At Consensus 2021, Gavin Wood acknowledged EVM’s current role in blockchain development.
“I can’t deny that a lot of people are already using EVM, so it’s very important to support these legacy protocols and legacy languages, and that’s what we’re doing at Polkadot,” Gavin Wood said in a pre-recorded interview. “People love EVM, people use EVM — absolutely fine, Until the next generation really proves its mettle.”
Polkadot aims to prove itself as a leader in the next generation of smart contract blockchains.
Technology transfer
EVM has a number of developers and software tools that they can use to simplify coding. Other blockchains are catching up with these tools, so Gavin Wood says, “It would be foolish to throw them away. But it’s not stupid to start thinking about what the next generation of tools will be, and for me that’s using WebAssembly as a smart contract.”
WebAssembly (WAsm for short) is a software format that works across a network and is easily compatible with multiple software languages. It was developed by large web companies and works with all major browsers.
Polkadot announced on May 17 that its sister network Kusama has launched parallel chains, which allow Polkadot to run different blockchains with different logic, but with the same security. This is a key final test before running the same upgrade on Polkadot. If this happens, it will represent the realization of Polkadot’s vision, which has been underway since the initial $147 million token offering in October 2017.
While ethereum’s existence enabled Parity to raise the money to launch Polkadot, the project was always intended to go beyond the original smart contract blockchain.
“You see, the problem with EVM is that it’s a very opinionated design,” Gavin Wood said. It grew out of an already stubborn design, the scripting design of Bitcoin, “and his team wanted to give developers a very non-stubborn format called WebAssembly.
In 2019, Gavin Wood (second from right, looking down) said: “Blockchain is no longer fit for modern society.” (Christine King/CoinDesk)
Blockchain upgrade
Gavin Wood also said he thinks it’s time to move forward with the idea that blockchain updates are either bad or dangerous.
“Blockchains are not fit for today’s purposes, just as traditional blockchains that rely on hard forks and frustrate their own consensus are not fit for today’s purposes. It’s that simple. People want to automatically upgrade applications. They want automatic protection, and they want it to be a surprise.” Gavin Wood said.
Gavin Wood says Polkadot comes with its own on-chain upgrade system. But he also explained that Polkadot runs on a very simple basic protocol that will stay the same, and the changes will evolve from the base layer up, which will protect the entire Polkadot from surprises or unexpected forks.
“If you do it that way, then you can stay ahead, you can keep up with technology. People will soon realize that maybe we should build a blockchain that can do that, “Gavin Wood said.” But as far as I know, Tezos is the only product that does that right now.”
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