From Inscription Contracts to Inscription Space

In the previous article Inscription Instrumentality Project, we started to think about Inscription contracts. Of course, in our learning process, Facet Protocol gave us a lot of inspiration, which gave us the opportunity to summarize the core of blockchain design "subtraction". From Bitcoin to Ethereum, it is "addition" to the blockchain, but the direction that truly makes the blockchain obtain almost unlimited scalability should be "subtraction", and the consensus on the chain can only inclu...

铭文补完计划

铭文在 2023年末的时候大火了一把，这一现象让众多链圈开发者跌破了眼镜。 从技术上来讲，铭文采用了链下计算（indexer）的方式，使得本来智能合约能力有限的比特币可以实现类似 ERC20 的功能。由于使用此类技术实现的功能有限，比如 ERC20 和 NFT 中常用的白名单技术，较难实现，所以市场以“公平发射”的名义给铭文技术注入了活力。 当热度开始消退，我们并不需要立刻否定这一技术。本文试着给铭文技术做一些变形，探讨使用铭文技术是否可以演化出更有意思的区块链技术。 将规则放到链上 诟病铭文技术的主要原因，来自于铭文系统的中心化。Indexer来自于一个第三方为比特币的交易赋予新的规则。如果多方使用不一样的规则解释铭文交易，就会出现不一样的结果。 一个显而易见的方式，就是将 indexer 程序写到链上。这在比特币中是较为昂贵的操作，如果在新设计的区块链上实现，则相对简单。 实现规则上链以后，我们会发现，铭文和区块链合约的差距在缩小。验证铭文交易变的去中心化了，因为规则是一样的。但是，剩下的差异是什么呢？ 先上链，再验证 合约的规则在于，先验证，再上链。如果一个NFT数量有 1...

Inscription Instrumentality Project

Inscription gained a sudden surge in popularity in late 2023, which caught many blockchain developers off guard. This article title borrows the Human Instrumentality Project concept from the Japanese anime Neon Genesis Evangelion to make the inscription technology beneficial to the blockchain smart contract. The inscription uses off-chain computation to enable Bitcoin to achieve some of the same functionality as ERC20 tokens. However, this approach has limitations, such as the difficulty of i...