diff --git a/Logbook.md b/Logbook.md index fb444ac..a2f4292 100644 --- a/Logbook.md +++ b/Logbook.md @@ -1,3 +1,27 @@ +## 2024-06-25 + +### Blob Leios + +As an intermediate deployment step a transient-data sharing version of Leios is being discussed, called "Blob Leios". +In Blob Leios, IBs contain unstructured data (that is not parsed by the blockchain's virtual machine) instead of transactions. +The IBs are expected to be retained by the SPOs for a limited amount of time, e.g., 2 weeks. +The virtual machine only parses a commitment to the data that is persistently stored by SPOs and allows for +the applications discussed in the 2024-06-20 logbook entry. + +This approach defers dealing with a number of throughput scaling issues, such as : +* increased storage size +* concurrency issues that have to do with the concurrent generation of IBs (duplicate transactions, conflicting transactions) +* increased CPU requirements due to the validation of transactions included in IBs + +thus making a first deployment of Leios a lot easier. +Note, that Blob Leios includes several new design elements such as: +* the freshest first network approach +* block voting +* the IB/EB/voting pipeline. + +Finally, while the idea is similar to Ethereum's blobs, Leios allows scaling "data throughput" to an lot larger level than Ethereuem. + + ## 2024-06-20 ### Team Meeting