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Official announcement! Conflux Mainnet Tethys Officially Launched

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After 63 network restarts, the third phase of the Conflux network (Tethys) was officially launched.

Original title: "Hello New World written on the launch of Conflux Network Tethys"

Original source: Conflux Chinese Community

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The ocean is boundless and shapeless. From ancient times to the present, with its vastness and mystery, it has constantly inspired human imagination, desire for exploration and adventurous spirit, calling us who live on land to in front of it.

The ocean not only breeds gods, but also breeds life and human civilization.

Human beings have been fascinated by the ocean since ancient times.

Different from other inland river civilizations, the ancient Greeks lived on the ocean, as the only known ancient civilization in the world Oceanic civilization, the ancient Greek civilization was in awe and curiosity about the vast blue ocean.

Hesiod's "Theogony" records that the origin of the sky and the earth all started from chaos. The unfathomable sea - Pontus, is the earliest sea god.

Gaia, the goddess of the earth, was conceived in the sky and gave birth to 12 titans.

Oceanus, the god of oceans and rivers, the head of the twelve Titans, is the reciprocating ocean system on the earth.

Tethys sea goddess, one of the twelve Titans, gave birth to all the rivers on earth, and three thousand sea goddesses.

The ancient Greeks probably went to the sea since then, and this may be the first time that humans have gone to the sea.

Since then, Greek mythology has basically revolved around the ocean.

In mythology, human beings fell from the golden age of abundance, their wisdom and strength were limited, and they lost their long lives. Facing the endless worries and troubles, but still remain rebellious.

Unwilling to succumb to the unlimited power on Mount Olympus, unwilling to succumb to divine curses or prophecies, human beings explore the unknown Explore the continents, explore the sky, and also explore the ocean.

And, never stopped.

Conflux, meaning confluence, from a trickle to a river, rushing to the ocean, transpiring into clouds, returning to the earth, It became a stream again. It coincides with the ancient Chinese wisdom that goodness is like water.

The same is true of worldly truth. From ignorance to wisdom, with knowledge as the inheritance and humility, from generation to generation, neon flashes have replaced drilling wood to make fire. Human beings have come from ancient times and are heading towards unknown places under the guidance of technology.

After going through the two stages of Pontus and Oceanus, the Conflux network officially entered the Tethys era today. Just as the first life was born in the ocean, from scratch, from ancient to modern, from the dark and barren abyss to the rich sea surface, a new era has begun.

It is true that our society changes all the time, but rarely as profoundly as it has since 1969.

On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched the world's first artificial satellite "Sputnik 1 No.)", which marks that the Soviet Union temporarily took the lead in the process of "struggling for hegemony".

The United States responded by establishing ARPA in 1958 ( U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency), the department's goal is to ensure the United States' leadership in the science and technology competition and apply science and technology to the military field.

In 1969, ARPA of the United States provided funds to unite a number of computer companies and four universities including Stanford University and University of California, Los Angeles. Joint development of ARPANET (Arpanet). As a military system, ARPANET had only 4 nodes at that time.

The east corner of the lost, the mulberry elm harvested. Unintentionally, the process of changing the world begins.

ARPANET gradually divided into two parts, one part remained in the military field, and the other part entered the lives of ordinary people.

Web 1.0, the first generation of the Internet was born. As the first generation of the Internet, it is static and one-way, and it solves people's needs for information search and aggregation. Portal websites and yellow pages are our most common representatives of Web 1.0 models.

But soon, the one-way Internet can no longer meet people's needs, people are no longer satisfied with listening, Web 2.0 came into being born. The original intention of Web 2.0 is to allow more diverse voices on the Internet, and the general public has the right to speak out for the first time. The Web 2.0 era consists of social media, blogs, and online communities where users can interact and collaborate in real time. Web 2.0, which emerged in 2004, is still thriving today.

After 51 years of barbaric growth, the power of the Internet has filled every corner of human life, and the global Internet penetration rate is as high as 67%. and is still growing. The Internet, which is "more than half a century old", has become brilliant because of the participation of billions of people, and has re-deconstructed the world.

The Internet was originally used to serve military, war, and even killing , but became the most important invention of mankind in the 20th century. The development of the Internet has allowed hundreds of millions of people to enjoy the convenience brought by technology, and most of them are free. It shows people infinite possibilities, helps people acquire knowledge more efficiently, and breaks the restrictions of class, distance, language and gender. In the online space of the Internet, there are no nobles and emperors anymore. For the first time, people have the same The right to equal dialogue in this world.

The Internet was Prometheus who stole fire. But each coin has two sides.

Time flies, today's centralized Internet is gradually exposing its drawbacks, everyone Shrouded in the shadow of this huge system, the door to "Brave New World" is gradually opened.

As the world gradually enters the Internet age, Google, Facebook, and Douyin have also emerged as monopoly oligarchs in the Web 2.0 era. People have gradually discovered that the information they keep on the Internet for convenience has gradually become a "gold mine" for a few monopoly oligarchs. When data becomes a tool for making money, privacy has also become a pawn in the careful layout of the oligarchs. Taking advantage of information asymmetry and the capital in their hands, these giants not only crazily take everyone's private data for themselves, but even use big data to manipulate public opinion and election results. The previously exposed "Cambridge Gate" showed that the personal information of more than 50 million Facebook users was stolen, which affected the results of major events such as the 2016 US election and the British "Brexit" referendum.

At the same time, things are getting tough for entrepreneurs and start-ups. Today, once the big platforms and oligarchs change the rules of the game, customers and profits will be taken away.

Innovation is replaced by "uncertainty" and the Internet becomes less interesting and dynamic.

Needs beget innovation.

When we knocked on the door of the Web3.0 era, we found that "data" is becoming one of our most important assets First, the behavior of Internet oligarchs prying into our privacy all the time is a pain in the throat. We hope that the ownership of data can return to the creators themselves.

It is under this strong voice, in the secret Around the corner, decentralized and encrypted networks are sprouting.

"Cypherpunk" (Cypherpunk) was just a small party at first, a few familiar friends gathered to discuss Some seemingly vexing program and password questions. Their communication was carried out through the latest encryption method (such as PGP) at that time, so everyone's privacy can be well protected, and everyone's ideas can be freely shared without burden.

The interpretation of privacy in the "Cypherpunk Manifesto" demonstrates their attitude:

Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age, but privacy is not a secret. Privacy is something you don't want the world to know. A secret is something you don't want anyone to know. Privacy is an individual's right to choose to disclose his information to the outside world.

Since we need privacy, we must ensure that one party in the transaction only gets the information necessary to participate in the transaction.

This combination of "safety + freedom" collides with ideas The spark that lights up the future of the decentralized web.

In October 2008, an anonymous person (or organization) named Satoshi Nakamoto sent metzdowd.com published a paper "Bitcoin: A P2P Electronic Cash System" on the "cypherpunk" mailing list.

So far, Bitcoin and the decentralization represented by Bitcoin The blockchain network has entered the stage of history. Today, after more than ten years of development, Bitcoin is still the shining star in the blockchain world.

At that time, Vitalik was still an "Internet addict" boy, and his favorite game was "World of Warcraft". The level in the game is extremely high. But unfortunately, Blizzard, the production company of "World of Warcraft", took action on his beloved game character and canceled the "life siphon" skill without warning. For this reason, an angry Vitalik contacted Blizzard engineers many times, and the reply he got was: for the balance of game characters, it cannot be restored.

At that moment, he realized that many times, people do not Freedom, even when others take away the fruits of his labor, he is powerless, until he encounters Bitcoin that changes the trajectory of his life.

In the blink of an eye, in 2014, Vitalik, who was obsessed with Bitcoin, discovered that Bitcoin has inherent design limitations that cannot be broken through. Ethereum, which aims to explore the "next-generation cryptocurrency and decentralized application platform", has been sought after by many geeks since it came out.

The years of operation of the Ethereum protocol and its network effects have given it an impressive first-mover advantage. Smart contracts are a major selling point for Ethereum to attract followers. Its versatility and plasticity make developers flock to it, but it increases the complexity of the entire system and hidden concerns about asset security.

Compared to Bitcoin, which can process 3-7 transactions per second, Ethereum can process 14-20 transactions per second Transactions are already a huge leap, but compared to the extremely mature centralized system we are used to, the performance shortcomings of Ethereum are highlighted.

Due to insufficient performance, the contract running speed on Ethereum is slow. Once the transaction volume increases, the congested network will cause transaction fees to rise Not high enough.

Unfortunately, the " The leap to new productivity” did not occur. Blockchain technology is revolutionary, but it suffers from performance bottlenecks. After more than 10 years of development, it has not really entered people's lives, but has become a paradise for a few "scientists" and adventurers. They closed the door, enjoying themselves in it, and even treated it as a place outside the law, amassing money wantonly and squandering their conscience.

Although it is unacceptable, in many cases, the original intention of technological innovation is not to improve efficiency and improve human life. Instead, their goal is to deter, monopolize, and extract excess profits. Only when we realize this truth will we understand that "Technology for Good" is an epoch-making ability.

The technology that enters thousands of households is the technology that is worthy of being left behind, and the innovation that changes human life is the right Responsible innovation for the future. Even the ARPANET (Arpanet), which was once a "state secret", was finally remembered by people because it benefited the whole world after improvement.

Taking over the legacy of the predecessors, standing on the shoulders of giants, The wheels of history are rolling under our feet. Conflux is one of countless "back waves" who have followed suit. In the new era, there is no "chosen son", we are all builders.

Like the "Encryption Manifesto", the beginning of many great journeys is just an inadvertent footnote in the straightforward historical text.

Qia's classmate is a young man, in his prime; Several serious young people demonstrated a model from an after-class discussion about Bitcoin in a cryptography course at Tsinghua University. After relevant scientific experiments, they concluded a paper "Scaling Nakamoto Consensus to Thousands of Transactions per Second", and is included on arXiv.

The theoretical verification was successful, and I thought their academic cooperation would also come to an end.

But "it is meaningful only if it is used", it was only a model prepared as a thesis at first, with the support of Teacher Yao Qizhi The next step is to get out of the ivory tower.

After many tests, "Tree-graph" (Tree-graph ) consensus algorithm, the transaction processing capacity per second can reach 3000+.

Breaking through the bottleneck of performance and confirmation time in the decentralized network, this time, we hope to The "Gate of Truth" opened a gap, allowing good technology to enter all walks of life, and making the "small matter" of decentralized networks entering people's lives possible.

For this, we prepared for 2 years.

2 years later, the infrastructure of the Conflux network has been preliminarily constructed. At the same time, we also retain the test network to provide subsequent developers with the same development and testing environment as the Conflux network (Tethys) development environment.

In order to implement the spirit of the blockchain to the end, we will continue to open source the algorithm, share the research results with the world, and let more people can enjoy a better life because of technological innovation. In order to encourage this kind of "good" innovation, Conflux will also provide all-round support for developers at various levels such as technology, community, funding and policy.

When the network infrastructure and ecological construction are completed, Conflux hopes to use its excellent performance to empower future businesses and realize asset The intercommunication and mutual trust of data and data will create a more valuable online world.

We cherish the present, but we also see the future.

The future world is fair and everyone can participate.

In the future world, everyone should be the master of private data, and people should have the right to control and share personal data ; Everyone should be the master of the value of labor, and people should have the right to say "no". Good science and technology should be beneficial to the development of all mankind. We follow morality and law, believe in the power of human nature, and have the courage to face those injustices and those "shackles".

Compromise to habit can destroy a person, but compromise to "evil" can destroy a world.

If every epoch-making progress needs a pioneer, if there is always someone who needs to be pioneered, if there is always someone who needs to benefit future generations , if there are always people who want to say "no" to "them", then Conflux is willing to join countless "back waves" to become the fire stealers of the next era, burning themselves to light the way forward. In the new era, everyone is a builder.

The launch of the Conflux network (Tethys) is not the end, but a new period The beginning of a great journey.

At the same time, Conflux Network will also meet you with a new image.

Black represents the earth and blue represents the sky. The letters "C" and "F" in the spelling of Conflux interlock and interlock like the traditional Chinese mortise and tenon structure. Standing on the ground with a fulcrum, the "tree map" will take root in the present, face the future, and hold up hope. Thriving and prosperous.

The Conflux team will also continue to provide the network in the next period of time Technical assurance and support until it is finally fully delivered to the community. We hope that in the rapidly iterative history of the blockchain encryption network, the Conflux network can leave a strong mark with you.

Let's pay tribute to the poem by poet Dylan Thomas that runs through the film Interstellar. The wheel of history rolls forward without stopping. Thank you to those who shine light in the dark, to those who break the unreasonable for us, and may those who contribute to the progress of mankind live forever.

There is no weak grass in the desert, and there is no unknown person in the ocean.

Life is bred from the ocean, but not only life comes out of the ocean. Faith will also rise slowly from the bottom of the sea and live forever.

Appendix: Journey of Conflux

In the second quarter of 2018, the Conflux prototype was implemented and the internal test network was released.

In the fourth quarter of 2018, when the blockchain and cryptocurrency market was at its worst, Sequoia China, Fengrui Capital , Huachuang Capital, Baidu Ventures, Rong 360, MetaStable, Fundamental Labs and IMO Ventures and other investment institutions still have confidence in Conflux, giving Conflux Network a strategic investment of 35 million US dollars.

The test network was launched on April 4, 2019 and passed the security audit in the same quarter.

In the third quarter of 2019, the Hangzhou Application Development and Operation Center, which focuses on the development and operation of the Conflux network ecology, was established.

In the first quarter of 2020, the Shanghai Tree Map Blockchain Research With the care and support of relevant departments, it was officially unveiled. Based on the underlying system of the Conflux blockchain, the research institute mainly develops technical research on distributed consensus algorithms and blockchain system performance.

At the same time, we have developed a cross-chain protocol called "ShuttleFlow", which can provide users with safe, efficient and convenient asset cross-chain bridge. By deploying multi-signature contract address multi-signature mapping on the Bitcoin and Ethereum networks, the multi-signature custody of user assets on Bitcoin and Ethereum is completed, and other stable coins such as BTC, ETH, and USDT are mapped in a 1:1 manner. Introduced into the Conflux network environment, it has created a good environment for promoting the development of the DeFi ecosystem on the Conflux network.

In addition to cross-chain assets, the Conflux development team also Community colleagues represented by Justin and Sophia developed a decentralized trading protocol called "BoomFlow".

This protocol includes various functional interfaces such as flash exchange and transaction matching and a high-frequency matching engine, which is enough to support decentralized transaction operators on the underlying network of Conflux Smooth and efficient operation.

Operators can access the Boomflow protocol for free in an environment without permission, and use the API interface to customize the cost parameters, Develop a personalized and friendly user interface, and adopt a unique user operation strategy.

April 27, 2020, Network Phase 1 (Pontus) Going online, Pontus can already provide a stable underlying network environment for partners on the Conflux ecosystem to test and develop DApps. On the same day, the ShuttleFlow asset cross-chain alliance was established, and Bitpie and Dappbirds are currently members of the asset cross-chain alliance.

In the third quarter of 2020, the second phase of the network (Oceanus) will be launched. In this phase, Conflux organized a total of 14 test mining Mining activities, 5000+ miners participated in the stable operation test of the Conflux network. In the test mining activity, the number of network nodes reached 4800+, and Conflux officially ranked among the third largest decentralized networks in the world.

On August 19th, Treemap Blockchain Research Center settled in Changsha , Hunan Xiangjiang Shutu Blockchain Innovation Center and Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Blockchain Underlying Technology and Application was unveiled in Yuelushan National University Science and Technology City.

Until today, the third phase of the network (Tethys) was officially launched.

During this period, the Conflux network experienced a total of 63 network restarts, and the team produced 50,000+ words of popular science content and teaching tutorials. There are nearly 300 popular science popularization videos, and 3 papers are published, 2 of which are collected by top international conferences.

The "Origin Project", "Beidou Project·Tianshu University Student Blockchain Entrepreneurship Camp" and "Roast Boy" organized by the community spontaneously Activities or ecological projects such as "City ConFi CITY Blind Box NFT" have planted sparks that can start a prairie fire for the popularization, entrepreneurship, and application of blockchain technology.

More than a dozen heavyweight media such as People's Daily Online, China News, Xinhuanet and Guangming Daily have reported on Conflux .

0.1% is the progress bar of the current Conflux network journey.

Exploring in the vast unknown is destined to be the fate of a few warriors. But not all pioneers will become martyrs.

The galaxy is vast, and all rivers go The sea, the hometown on earth. The road ahead is long, and in the more distant journey, there will be flowers blooming like brocades, guests will be full, there will be Conflux, and I hope there will be you too.