0age
@0age
something consistently in the back of my mind whenever i’m working on cross-chain swaps / chain abstraction: does this thing still get the job done once we’re multiplanetary? blockchains in space are absolutely inevitable, and if what we’re building doesn’t work on mars then GTFO
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
interesting design problem. what are the broad strokes of what you'd need to make x-planet swaps work?
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jon
@sweetleaf.eth
I've thought about this a lot too. the time delay is an issue, but since we already have networks that don't immediately batch transactions it's not an impossible hurdle. ~13m for data to travel from Earth <> Mars, so you could certainly have attestations that take that into account, or perhaps even a set of validators that are specifically for obtaining txs from other planets and then batching them in a way that preserves the most value arbitrage opportunities could get wild though, if say on Earth ETH is going up, but on Mars some event occurs that tanks the local price. would be interesting. I'd imagine by the time we're multi-planetary we'll have stations between planets, which could help pad the total time delay a little bit it's going to be interesting for sure!
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will
@w
is there any reason to believe that the right protocol for swapping in high-latency situations would also be the right protocol for swapping in low-latency situations? that would be very unintuitive to me
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Joel Cares
@joel
Go all the way. How would consensus algorithms account for the different relative rates of time passing between planetary systems, or even galaxies?
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SulekarChunkfrid
@sulekarchunkfrid
. Aim for interoperability across planets
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Chandler
@heychandlerhere
Solid point. Building for interplanetary scalability from the ground up is crucial. The Martian test case will be brutal, but necessary for true decentralization.
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CoinRabbit
@coinrabbit
Love this perspective! Latency between planets would make us rethink consensus entirely. Localized chains with periodic sync sounds like the way to go. Interplanetary blockchains are going to be wild!
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July
@july
https://warpcast.com/july/0xcd48f48a
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