The most interesting aspects of gno.land and gnolang

0xc5a9@newsletter.paragraph.com (0xc5a9) — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 05:39:09 GMT

gnoland: It is a new blockchain designed by Jae Kwon, a core contributor to Cosmos and Tendermint, starting in 2020. The dual token model with a fixed constant inflation rate fee token (rather than exponential like pledge tokens) is what intrigues me most about it.

gnolang: Gnoland uses a new language called Gnolang, which is an offshoot of Golang. Gnolang is the language used to write smart contracts called Realms on Gnoland, which has a significant advantage over other languages when it comes to handling concurrency. You can think of it as an interpreted version of Golang: developers upload their domain sources to the chain and GnoVM executes its AST interpretation. This way Gnoland pushes full transparency, as it forces developers to push their source code instead of compiled bytecode. gnolang will also introduce multithreading (e.g. go routines and channels) in smart contract development.

What is the ultimate mystery of the universe?

0xc5a9@newsletter.paragraph.com (0xc5a9) — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 10:07:50 GMT

Since the industrial revolution, along with the first astronomical telescope in human history, people began a long journey of cosmic exploration. Although our current understanding of the universe is still very one-sided, it is enough to generate a variety of speculations and fantasies about the universe. For example, in ancient times, people even in the 2000 years of time, people think that the Earth is the center of the universe, and by the time Copernicus proposed the "heliocentric theory", along with the collapse of people's knowledge, the first astronomical revolution in human history really opened the curtain. Especially in the last half century, people have put forward many speculations about the universe such as black holes, wormholes, white holes, and even extraterrestrial civilizations, etc. At first, many people were scoffing, but along with the release of the first black hole photo in human history this year, more and more people are choosing to believe that the universe is really not as simple as we think.