Key Features
Usability First
New blockchain platforms often claim scalability improvements over existing platforms. However, scalability is irrelevant unless the platform has enough adoption to require throughput. Analogously, building a massive stadium in the middle of a desert is pointless if no one wants to go there. Therefore, the most pressing issue is how to allow developers to easily create useful applications that users can actually use, capturing sustainable value for these developers.
End-User Usability
Developers will only build applications that their end-users can realistically use. AIA Chain’s technical model enables developers to create experiences for users by lowering the barrier to use, simplifying the learning curve of "blockchain" concepts, and reducing the number of interactions required for users to use applications, thereby creating a positive network experience.
Developer Usability
Many key usability improvements support developers on the platform, allowing them to learn, develop, test, and deploy applications more easily than on any other platform.
Scalability Second
A protocol that can prove future scalability must split both state and processing to scale. Importantly, no single node in the network should be able to store all information or validate all transactions on the chain.
Efficient Development and Evolution
A critical challenge for existing and new platforms is how they handle development and evolution. While the platform itself must be decentralized, various methods can achieve updates and development. Existing protocols have proven insufficiently iterative to keep pace with innovation. Successful next-generation protocols must ensure that the network remains decentralized while allowing an effective development process to prevent obsolescence from subsequent technologies. AIA Chain's initial development was undertaken by one of the world's most powerful teams of engineers, entrepreneurs, and technologists, with governance designed to ensure the protocol develops under ongoing community oversight but with enough efficiency to remain competitive and relevant long after launch. This ensures that the platform avoids the "launch failure" issues that plague half of the industry and the "post-launch failure improvement" problems that hinder the other half.
True Decentralization
While Bitcoin and Ethereum are often praised for their decentralization levels, they suffer from many centralization issues. For example, Bitcoin’s mining capacity is controlled by three mining pools accounting for 53% of the total. Additionally, running mining nodes requires expensive hardware, increasing the entry barrier and reducing incentives for small participants. Newer networks often trade decentralization hopes for the operational efficiency provided by limited validator sets, violating one of the fundamental principles of a truly decentralized network: its value is protected by the redundancy level among its independent nodes. To maintain true decentralization, the network must allow permissioned participation by anticipated operators rather than encouraging speculation. AIA Chain addresses these issues with a Proof of Stake mechanism specifically designed for determinism and broad fairness, preventing the pooling of large validators and encouraging widespread node participation. In systems like AIA Chain, the more nodes, the larger the scale.
New Business Models for Developers and Entrepreneurs
Early use cases of blockchains like Ethereum allowed projects to create their own tokens and raise funds through Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). While this seemed revolutionary at first, it brought significant usability obstacles, especially for developers facing user skepticism and fraud. AIA Chain offers more robust, legal ways for developers, entrepreneurs, institutions, and individual participants to monetize infrastructure. When a node starts operating, part of the network fees generated will automatically be allocated to that account based on block rewards, which cannot be withdrawn by developers. This incentivizes early infrastructure and individual user development, creating network effects that increase usage, and providing a business model where application and infrastructure developers can benefit from their creations without needing to create their own tokens.
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