Pocket Network为Web3创建强大的开源基础架构层-41财经

Pocket Network为Web3创建强大的开源基础架构层

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Pocket Network是一个为Web3应用程序构建的分布式API基础设施，提供了无需信任的API层，可以轻松访问任何区块链。

项目旨在构建一个完整的区块链节点分布式网络，通过Pocket API提供的无需信任协议，开发者可以无缝地访问这些节点，结合加密经济激励措施打造DAO生态系统。Pocket Network 通过分布式网络聚合供需并降低成本，创建了强大的开源基础架构层。

那Pocket到底Web3提供怎样的解决方案？相较与其他基础设施解决方案而言，Pocket有何优势？

4月23号晚上7点，Michael O'Rourke,Co-Founder and CEO of Pocket Network,亲临Value100为我们逐一解答。

以下是直播实录（内容稍有调整）：

小黄：对本群的小伙伴来说，Pocket Network可能大家了解得不多，所以，能先请您给我们简单介绍一下 Pocket吗？

Can you give a short introduction of Pocket?

Michael ：Sure! Pocket Network is a protocol that incentivizes full nodes to provide infrastructure for web3 applications. Pocket is it's own independent blockchain. You can think of it like Uniswap for blockchain infrastructure - instead of having to depend on unreliable centralized companies to provide this critical data, they can use Pocket Network for much stronger guarantees on reliability and cost.

Pocket Network是一个协议，旨在鼓励全节点为web3应用程序提供基础设施。Pocket就是我们独有的区块链。你可以把它想象成区块链基础设施的Uniswap——而无需依赖不可靠的中心化公司来提供关键数据， Pocket Network可以在可靠性和成本有效性上为用户提供更强的保障。

小黄：是什么原因促使您创建了Pocket Network？另外Pocket的发展愿景又是什么？

What inspired you to found Pocket Network? What is your goal with Pocket?

Michael ：We began thinking about and working on Pocket Network in late 2016. As 2017 came along, we saw all these amazing applications being built handling thousands of users at once, constantly refreshing pages and generating millions of requests for blockchain information like balances and smart contract information.

我们在2016年末考虑并开始创建Pocket Network。随着2017年的到来，我们看到所有这些令人惊叹的应用程序都在同时处理成千上万的用户请求，需要不断刷新页面才能生成包括余额和智能合约信息在内的百万级区块链信息请求。

To be able to handle all of this traffic, decentralized applications resorted to using third party services to handle the work, and as a result, we've seen a concentration of just a few providers handling all of the blockchain data we see on our dapps today.

为了能够处理这些庞大的流量数据，去中心化应用程序需要借助第三方服务来完成相关工作。然而，我们发现只有少数几个提供商在处理我们今天在去中心化应用程序中看到的所有区块链数据。

We saw these unstoppable blockchains having points of control and centralization floating on top of them, and designed Pocket Network to be a better option to build on. All of this data requires one thing in the end, and that is full nodes. All of the smart contract data for these applications we use every day live on full nodes.

我们发现在区块链上浮动着控制点和中心点，并决定将Pocket Network设计为一款更好的产品。所有这些数据最终目标只有一个，即满节点。我们每天使用的这些应用程序的所有智能合约数据都运行在完整节点上。

As we see crypto really become mainstream across the world, the need for data across the thousands of blockchains being released is only going to exponentially increase. We expect Pocket to be the fabric of infrastructure for every blockchain in existence.

随着加密技术逐渐在世界范围内成为真正的主流，对数千个区块链数据的需求只会呈指数级增长。我们希望Pocket可以为现存的各个区块链提供基础设施的服务。

小黄：那Pocket与其他去中心化解决方案相比，有哪些主要优势？

What are the main advantages of Pocket over these other infrastructure solutions?

Michael ：We’re fundamentally different from other infrastructure solutions as we’re a decentralized protocol rather than a centralized Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider.

我们与其他基础设施解决方案有本质的不同，因为我们是一个去中心化的协议，而非中心化基础设施即服务提供商。

This allows us to have 100% uptime with nodes distributed across the globe. While centralized infrastructure has additional overhead costs (redundancy, middleman tax), Pocket Network does not and passes along those benefits to the end user.

这使我们能够对分布在全球的节点拥有100%的正常运行时间。中心化基础设施有额外的开销成本(冗余、中间商税)，但Pocket Network没有，并能将这些好处传递给最终用户。

小黄：您对Web3.0有何评价？Pocket又将提供怎样的解决方案？

How do you view Web3.0 and how does Pocket solve its problems?

Michael ：Web3.0 is the natural next step in terms of human innovation, but a majority of the blockchain industry is still at the Web2 stage.

尽管Web3.0是人类创新的下一个方向，但绝大部分区块链行业应用却仍处于Web2阶段。

What I mean by that is while we have amazing projects with decentralized front ends, open source code, etc. an overwhelming majority of them still run on AWS or another centralized infrastructure.

我的意思是说虽然我们有很棒的项目，具有去中心化的前端、开放源代码等特点，但绝大多数项目仍旧运行在AWS或其他中心化基础设施之中。

For example, research (2019) from Chainstack showed that over 60% of Ethereum nodes are running in the cloud, with nearly 25% via AWS. This represents a major single point of failure, especially when cloud platform monopolies experience downtime from outages or bugs.

例如，据Chainstack的研究(2019)显示，超过60%的以太坊节点运行在云中，其中近25%的节点是通过AWS来运行的。这意味着一个主要的单点故障，特别是当云平台垄断企业因中断或错误而停机时，问题会更加严重。

Pocket combats the trend of blockchain node centralization with $POKT full-node incentivizes. Because of load-balancing and session tumbling at the protocol level, node operators find the optimal strategy to earn more POKT is to horizontally scale their node operations by spinning up more nodes in order to capture more opportunities for work.

Pocket采用$POKT全节点激励的方式对抗区块链节点的中心化趋势。由于协议级别上的负载平衡和会话下降，节点运营商发现获得更多POKT的最佳策略是通过运行更多节点来水平扩展相关操作，以捕获更多的工作机会。

Do you remember what happened on November 11th, 2020? Infura went offline, taking down a bunch of Ethereum applications offline with it.

你还记得2020年11月11日的那场意外吗？彼时，Infura的宕机导致了一系列以太坊应用的故障。

People who added a Pocket-powered RPC endpoint in their MetaMask wallet were still able to transact and interact with Ethereum. This is because node operators are incentivized to maintain their base layer nodes and provide applications the best chain tip (i.e. correct data by majority).

当故障发生时，在MetaMask钱包中添加基于pocket的RPC端点的应用仍然能够与正常地在以太坊中进行交易和操作。这是因为节点运营商被激励去维护其基础层节点，并为应用程序提供最好的链提示(即大多数情况下正确的数据)。

小黄：Pocket的经济模型相较于其他去中心化基础设施解决方案而言有何不同？用户将获得怎样独特的体验？

What sets your token economics apart from other decentralized infrastructure solutions? What can users of Pocket Network find there that they canve recently announced the launch of the wrapped pocket staking program. What is this program and how can others get involved?

Michael ：To the best of my knowledge, there isn't a project like ours that is trying to be a decentralized multi-chain infrastructure protocol.

据我所知，还没有任何一个项目像我们这样致力于打造一个去中心化的多链基础设施协议。

Our token economics is bleeding-edge, redefining how applications pay for blockchain infrastructure:

我们前沿的通证经济模型重新定义了应用程序面向区块链基础设施的付费方式:

We enable projects to transform their infrastructure costs from a monthly sunken cost to a one-time POKT bond that can be recovered at any time by unstaking POKT, then selling on a secondary market

我们的模型能够将基础设施月付成本转化为一次性POKT债券，该债券可以剥离POKT，并通过二级市场中的流动而被收回。

For context, users stake POKT for a certain amount of network request bandwidth (relay throughput). Here’s an example: 25,000 POKT equals about 1,000,000 requests per day. This would cost roughly 250 per month for an DApp developer using Infura.

也就是说，用户可以通过质押POKT来获得一定数量的网络请求带宽(中继吞吐量)。举个例子，25,000 个POKT约相当于日均1,000,000次中继请求。对于使用Infura的去中心化应用程序开发者来说，大约每月成本是250美元。

As their daily relay requests needs grow, developers can unstake and then restake more POKT to increase their daily allocated relay throughput.

随着每日中继请求需求的增长，开发人员可以解除质押并重新投入更多的POKT，以增加每日分配的中继吞吐量。

Alternatively, an app developer could leverage our gateway’s load-balancing feature to stake POKT in an additional Application Authentication Token (AAT) then map that to a load-balanced endpoint to add more network bandwidth to whichever blockchain their application needs access to.

此外，应用程序开发人员还可以选择利用我们的网关负载平衡特性，将POKT置于附加的应用程序身份验证令牌(AAT)中，然后将其映射到负载平衡的端点，为其应用程序需要访问的区块链添加更多的网络带宽。

This further splits the work of serving application requests across multiple sessions with even more nodes to scale alongside it.

这进一步将应用程序的服务请求拆分为多个会话组，并采用更多的节点实现扩展。

Pocket Network leverages near-zero marginal costs. The longer an application stays staked and uses the protocol, the more value they extract and the closer their costs approaches zero. After a few months, the service basically is free!

Pocket Network的边际成本近乎于零。应用程序选择质押的时间越长，其使用协议的时间就越长，其能获得的价值也就越大，其成本就越接近于零。几个月后，服务基本上就是免费的了！

小黄：什么是wrapped POKT? 它有何特色？

What is wrapped POKT? And why wrapped POKT?

Michael ：Wrapped POKT (wPOKT) is an ERC20 equivalent of our POKT token (backed 1:1), allowing DeFi users and farmers to crowdsource infrastructure for Ethereum (and other blockchain) applications.

Wrapped POKT (wPOKT)是我们的POKT通证跨到以太坊的ERC20等价物(1:1对应)，它可以为DeFi用户和矿工提供以太坊(和其他区块链)应用程序基础设施的众包服务。

Pocket Network is a developer-driven, blockchain-agnostic protocol that goes to where the developers are - and with the overwhelming majority of projects on Ethereum, we simply followed to provide unstoppable infrastructure.

Pocket Network是一种由开发者驱动的泛区块链协议，旨在满足开发者的需求，并为以太坊中的绝大多数项目提供势不可挡的基础设施。

wPokt allows Pocket to bridge to the Ethereum DeFi ecosystem, increases Pocket liquidity and brings more applications to Pocket Network. wPOKT becomes a standardised ERC20 token and can leverage the benefits of Ethereum smart contracts

wPOKT可以帮助触达以太坊网络完善的DeFi生态体系，极大的增加了POKT通证的流动性，同时也获取了Apps免费资源层。此举将POKT标准化为ERC20格式，从而极大的利用智能合约机制带来的各种好处。

小黄：我们如何获得wrapped Pokt (wPOKT)代币？

How can people acquire wrapped Pokt (wPOKT)?

Michael ：At the moment, wPOKT is still under development and scheduled for release sometime this quarter. When we do launch, users will be able to get wPOKT through a LBP on Balancer.

现阶段，wPOKT仍在开发中，预计将在本季度正式发布。届时，用户将能够通过Balancer上的LBP获得wPOKT代币。

小黄：我们了解到，Pocket正在为公售搭建一个Balancer流动性启动池(LBP)，能否透露更多的细节？

For the public sale, you are doing a Balancer Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool (LBP), can share details of that?

Michael ：Sure! Essentially a LBP is like any other liquidity pool you would see on DEX’s like Uniswap or Sushiswap. However the ratio between wPOKT/DAI (our reserve token of choice) isn’t at 50/50, rather it’s always changing.

本质上讲，LBP与Uniswap或Sushiswap等DEX上看到的任何其他流动性池没什么差别。然而wPOKT/DAI(我们选择的储备币)之间的比例并非固定的50/50，而是一直在变化之中。

In the beginning, the ratio maybe 10 wPOKT to 1 DAI but the curve is continually adjusted to perhaps be 2 wPOKT to 1 DAI by the end of the distribution event. We talk in length about our LBP in this article, and users interested in knowing more about LBP’s in general can read documentation provided by Balancer here https://docs.balancer.finance/guides/smart-pool-templates-gui/liquidity-bootstrapping-pool

初期，这个比率可能是10 wPOKT比1 DAI，但到派发事件结束时，曲线可能会不断调整为2 wPOKT比1 DAI。我们在本文中详述了LBP的相关内容，点击了解更多信息。

https://docs.balancer.finance/guides/smart-pool-templates-gui/liquidity-bootstrapping-pool

Users who are unable to participate in the LBP will be able to purchase wPOKT just like any other ERC20 token on DEX’s like Uniswap, Sushiswap, 1inch, etc.

无法参与LBP的用户可以像在Uniswap、Sushiswap、1inch等DEX上购买任何其他ERC20代币一样购买wPOKT。

小黄：听说您最近会推出wrapped pocket质押项目，可以给我们就该项目基本情况和参与方式做简单的介绍吗？

You've recently announced the launch of the wrapped pocket staking program. What is this program and how can others get involved?

Michael ：Our data farming program is the first ever “regen finance” program. Immediately after the wPOKT LBP starts, those who purchase wPOKT through the token distribution event will be able to take it and stake it in the first farm, which represents daily network request bandwidth (relay throughput) for a basket of applications.

我们的数据矿场项目是史上首个“再生金融”项目。wPOKT LBP启动后，那些通过代币分发事件购买wPOKT的投资者们就能参与其中并进行质押，这代表了一篮子应用程序的每日网络请求带宽(中继吞吐量)。

Instead of bootstrapping liquidity, you can think of it as a bootstrapping or crowdsourcing mechanism for applications’ infrastructure access by Web3 users.

与自举流动性不同，您可以将其视为Web3用户访问应用程序基础设施的一种自举或众包机制。

By staking wPOKT on behalf of these applications and subsidizing their infrastructure costs, farmers will be able to earn yield in wPOKT. The longer a farmer stays staked the more they earn. They are naturally incentivized to stake for long periods of time in order to unlock wPOKT reward bonus multipliers for maximum of 3x.

通过将wPOKT作为这些应用的代表，并补贴其基础设施成本，矿工们将能够在wPOKT中获得产量，即挖得越久赚得越多。为了解锁wPOKT奖励倍数，矿工们自然会长期持有份额。

For example, staking wPOKT for an entire month gives you a 2x multiplier ad staking for two months provides a 3x multiplier.

以质押wPOKT为例，一月期收益是2倍，而质押两个月的收益就变为了3倍。

The program encourages users to spread the word of Pocket Network so they can potentially earn additional yield. Every time a new application is onboarded to the program, a new application-specific farm will be created which provides a new opportunity for farmers to earn more wPOKT. Each farm may have different yield rates, too.

该计划鼓励用户为Pocket Network做宣传，这样他们就有可能获得额外收益。每当有新的应用程序加入到计划之中，新的特定矿场就会被建成，这为矿工们提供了赚取更多wPOKT的新方法。每个矿场的产量可能会有所差异。

小黄：对于去中心化基础设施感兴趣的项目来说，他们又该如何加入到Pocket中?

How can a project that is interested in decentralized infrastructure get involved?

Michael ：For projects interested in having an unstoppable decentralized infrastructure for their backend, please fill out this form to get early access to our dashboard:

有意去中心化基础设施的后端项目，请填写以下表格以获得早期体验机会：

http://bit.ly/EarlyAccessPocketDashboard

小黄：Pocket今年已经取得哪些进展呢？还将会达成哪些里程碑式的进展？