With the remarkable development in technology, digital currency and blockchain based infrastructures, there has increasingly become more and more need for reliable and trusted infrastructure based on the blockchain that will see billions and billions of users engage in various blockchain based projects for many reasons ranging from the need for innovation in science and technology to solving world problems. Over the recent past, the blockchain has been a reliable source for.most decentralised projects for example Ziliqa, Quarkchain, Multivac as well as Harmony.
But on the other hand, most of these projects have faced various challenges and predicaments on interdicting with the blockchain that have hugely affected their progress and the progress their users who spend a lot of time trying to figure the best ways to optimise their resources.
But with the strong decentralised blockchain platform, there have emerged new technologies over the recent past such as the sharing technology, and with this technology, comes Harmony: a fully scalable, secure and efficient blockchain based infrastructure that has come up with better solutions and resolutions to projects based on the sharing technology. Over the past months, we have seen many projects face great challenges in using optimumly the sharing technology. But Harmony is here to solve all these issues.
What is Harmony.
Harmony, based on the blockchain technology is a blockchain solution with a wide range POS solution with the ability of linear scaling and that can enable a great number of transactions per second and also with the ability to fully extend the activities on a heavily utilised network to make it more efficient, effective and reliable for billions of users.
With the great number of users all over the world into staking, Harmony is the futuristic technology with the most decentralised form of staking powered by optimised sharding technology.
Harmony as the reliable sharding technology.
Harmony can be considered the best sharding technology in the world today. Recently, Harmony launched its Mainnet, the first fully sharded POS blockchain infrastructure. The Mainnet is nevertheless one of the best decentralised networks as it can support over 600 nodes on a network. The fact that Harmony is one of the top 15 decentralised networks, the phase 2 Harmony Mainnet version literally aims to include 4 more shards with over 400 nodes each with now a total of over 1600 nodes which also literally adds a token swap to the native ONE token which include:
the token transfers
and the staking smart contract.
Harmony's implications(resource efficiency and ability to scale linearly)
For a project like Harmony, it has been able to produce various breakthroughs that had not been seen or encountered in the current distributed life ledger industry. The better known implications of Harmony's ability to scale linearly is that Harmony shards both the processing and and the record keeping of the network hence making storage requirements less restrictive.
Harmony also has the ability to propagate blocks within shards or across The network in a fast and efficient way hence increasing the number of reliable users across the globe which had been a major challenge to some of the on going projects such as Ziliqa, Quarkchain, to mention but a few.
Also with great security, Harmony helps to achieve atomic locking references to ensure cross shard consistency, what a relief!!!
The importance of sharding on multiple layers.
To most tech enthusiasts, sharding can be defined as the process of dividing a database's computational responsibilities into shards (or small segments) where each shard individually carries out its tasks hence easing the total pressure and burden of computation. This has enabled the breakdown of large computational tasks into smaller chunks which are easier to run and process.
More to that, Harmony has come up with two kinds of chains and these include;
A beacon chain
Multiple shard chains.
For the beacon chain, it is an identity register derived from a random generator. But for sharding on the multiple layers, Harmony's beacon chain has made everything easier, simple, fast and reliable. The beacon chain has the ability to store separate blockchain states (automicity) and process transactions.
Harmony implementation in other activities.
With the remarkable development of Harmony, we shall be able see a numerous number of applications and activities being built and run on the Harmony infrastructure including gaming, large scale economies, enterprise infrastructure, etc.
Being a gaming enthusiast, I speculate that Harmony will be a great inclusion in the gaming community and will provide a great platform for game development including racing games, first-person shooter, adventure and simulation games.
You can access up-to-date information on Harmony.One here
Additional resources
Harmony website
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Harmony Medium Blog
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