Understanding Supra: Building an integrated public chain for vertical integration

Supra provides an innovative technological path to solve many challenges in the existing blockchain ecosystem.

Author: Pzai, Foresight News

In the development of the technical architecture of the Block chain, we have experienced from the UTXO model of BTC to the Smart Contract of the ETH workshop, and countless application scenarios have been derived from it. However, in the existing public chain ecosystem, the interoperability between different architectures is becoming increasingly prominent. In response to this challenge, Supra has built a vertically integrated Block chain solution, which provides a vertically integrated Layer 1 platform with all key functions built-in, and adopts the “tribe” and “clan” hierarchical network model and the self-developed Moonshot Consensus engine to enhance the resilience, security and processing speed of the system. This article analyzes how Supra provides an innovative technical path to solve many problems in the existing Block Chain ecosystem from multiple perspectives.

Vertical Integration

In the existing blockchain ecosystem, the design concept of many public chains usually integrates Consensus, data availability, and execution functions into the core network, while leaving other infrastructure (such as Oracle Machine, Cross-Chain Interaction communication, on-chain randomness, etc.) to be handled by other protocols, leading to increased integration complexity, security risks, and rising development costs. Supra L1 vertically integrates key services such as Oracle Machine, Cross-Chain Interaction communication, automation, and on-chain randomness (VRF) directly into L1, enabling all services to share consistent security, avoiding latency and security issues in traditional Cross-Chain Interaction communication.

Supra Containers: Efficient Combinations and Diverse Ecosystems

Most existing blockchain applications are highly dependent on the ecosystem, with certain limitations in terms of interoperability and liquidity access across multiple chains. The independence of each application is affected by execution and economic models, thus limiting the expansion of use cases within a single application. However, dApps built on Supra on-chain can fully leverage the elasticity and flexibility of L2 while maintaining the independence of the AppChain, through containerization technology. Within the container, developers can customize governance and incentive models according to their needs, and can also take advantage of the liquidity benefits of L1 to improve the transaction efficiency of the application. In addition, Supra also provides various vertically integrated services, such as automated networks and random number generators, which can help developers deploy applications more quickly and enhance their performance and security.

For the underlying execution of the Block chain, there are various Virtual Machine solutions on the market, and Supra’s Multi-VM design extends the platform’s applicability. Currently, Supra supports multiple mainstream Virtual Machines such as MoveVM, EVM (and will support Solana VM and Cosmos VM in the future). Developers from different ecosystems can easily migrate their applications to Supra without the need for reprogramming, while taking advantage of high throughput and low latency performance, and improving interoperability between Smart Contracts.

Moonshot Consensus and Proof Mechanism

Currently, many L1s are striving to balance throughput and finality, while Supra’s Moonshot Consensus protocol is a random single leader rotation protocol based on Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) mechanism, and improves transaction processing efficiency through parallelized workflow. The protocol adopts a flexible design that can be adjusted according to different needs, achieving high throughput of 500,000 transactions per second and sub-second consensus latency. In addition, Supra has also rigorously proven the security of the Moonshot Consensus protocol using formal verification methods to ensure its correctness and reliability.

Moonshot Consensus protocol adopts an optimistic proposal mechanism, that is, when a Node submits a Block proposal, it assumes that this proposal will be accepted and continues to send a request to the next Block proposal. If other Nodes agree to this proposal, it will be added to the next Block. In this way, Nodes can directly enter the next Consensus process with the expected positive result, thus avoiding unnecessary waiting time. At the same time, because the transmission, sorting, and execution of transactions can be run in parallel, the processing time can be more effectively reduced. This separation mechanism reduces the system’s reliance on honest Nodes, dropping the proportion of honest Nodes required for Consensus to the minimum.

“Tribe - Clan” architecture: hierarchical Node management and parallel execution

The “tribe - clan” Node management architecture adopts a hierarchical and random approach to Node management. The tribe represents a collective of numerous large Nodes, while the clan represents a randomly selected small Node set within the tribe. By randomly selecting small Nodes within the tribe, the risk of Byzantine behavior at each layer is kept to a minimum, providing a high degree of flexibility and robustness. Node resources are dynamically allocated according to demand, with different tasks assigned to different clans and can be executed in parallel. This mechanism ensures that the Supra network can operate normally even when Byzantine Nodes are disrupted, and improves the efficiency of multidimensional computation and execution. The unique architecture enhances scalability and security by implementing parallel execution at the network and Node levels. The random Node reorganization set at L1 ensures security, while the randomness based on VRF increases resistance to targeted attacks.

Left: User trading flow in Supra Right: ‘Tribe - Clan’ architecture

PoEL Economic Liquidity Proof Mechanism

PoEL (Proof of Economic Liquidity) is a unique incentive mechanism of Supra, which links participants’ capital risk with incentive mechanisms and designs customized incentive methods based on the risk and use of capital to attract long-term capital investment in network construction. This mechanism supports the participation of multiple digital assets in liquidity pools, provides more diverse sources of capital, and mitigates the impact of asset fluctuation on network security through risk management measures.

At the same time, PoEL allows capital to provide liquidity in the liquidity pool while earning stake rewards, enabling capital to be fully utilized in multiple scenarios and improving capital efficiency.

Team and Project Progress

The Supra team has a certain academic foundation, led by the academic team of Dr. Aniket Kate, the chief research officer, a committed inventor and cryptographer of KZG. The KZG commitment technology plays a core role in the ETH Mainnet expansion roadmap. Supra has just launched the MoveVM Mainnet and will soon release the EVM version. Currently, Supra has launched more than 50 dApps, and is in discussions with over 100 dApps, launching a $100 million ecosystem fund, and introducing a community-based project showcase event called the Super dApp Showdown, where the community and VC judges will select winners each season, who will directly receive the ecosystem fund.

Conclusion

In the environment of the diverse blockchain ecosystem, users and developers need to integrate on the underlying architecture to access better services. In the current diversified blockchain ecosystem, the interoperability and integration complexity between different public chains have become urgent problems to be solved. As a Layer 1 platform, Supra attempts to provide a solution with built-in key functionalities through vertical integration and supports multiple Virtual Machines (such as MoveVM, EVM). It aims to facilitate the migration of applications from different technical stacks to its platform, providing developers with a highly flexible and secure Decentralization platform while maintaining good performance. In the future, Supra’s technological innovation will bring more possibilities to developers and accelerate the application and development of various blockchain applications worldwide.