Fuel Forge will be an incredibly important moment for us and the eco 2.0 initiative.
Eco 2.0 is about 2 things: - Bolster, improve, resource, and revamp the strongest ecosystem projects - Expand the ecosystem to a new wave of builders and founders
The focus: insane blockchain apps.
We spent a long time building the ultimate infra for high performance blockchain, but building an ecosystem on an entirely new stack has been incredibly challenging.
Eco projects hit many head winds, everything was an uphill battle, we were not ready to get extremely hands on with projects to ensure they have the best chances of success.
But that changes with eco 2.0. Fuel is now far more equip to get extremely hands on from planning, strategy, hiring, resourcing, architecture, development and more.
Building on Fuel should only be a benefit to an app and its users, never a negative.
With our new infra on the way for fast bridging, wallet UX, throughput and latency, building an app on Fuel will mean any user from any chain can seamlessly leverage Fuel without ever noticing Fuel at all.
Forge is about unlocking Fuels infra potential to build a new category of blockchain apps never seen in the space.
If you want to go deep, push yourself, and design the next wave of blockchain applications, join us.
So if Ethereum wanted to improve its execution layer, it will need to do the following:
- better virtual machine - improve transaction model - use a tx model conducive to privacy - focus on minimizing state growth - focus on bandwidth compression - single slot finality
All of which we already solved with Fuel and Tendermint, but alas Ethereum must do it “its way”.
Another advantage of building your own VM vs an ISA is you can tailor key aspects for ultimate efficiency.
RISC-V has no built in heap facility and leaves this up to the OS/software level. For normal computing, this makes total sense, who cares how you want to manage the heap. But in a metered environment like a blockchain, this adds a lot of overhead as each operation must be gas metered for every transaction.
The FuelVM, designed for blockchain and metering, has heap facility out of the box for this exact reason, avoiding having to pay for this every transaction.
Sure, in RV you can maybe add this facility in the ecal but then you might as well just use the FuelVM.