Morse -> Shannon Migration
Morse → Shannon Migration Overview
This is still a WIP, as much will likely be modified as TestNet development progresses, but it should give everyone an idea of what Shannon’s core architecture will be.
Improvement Overview
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✅ Solved
🟡 Partially solved
⏳ Temporarily solved
❌ Still an issue
🚫 Not applicable
| Pocket Key areas of improvement | Morse (Tendermint fork) | Shannon (Cosmos SDK) |
|---|---|---|
Persistence Scalability | ✅ w/ LeanPOKT | ✅ w/ Data Availability delegation |
Ecosystem Interoperability | 🟡 w/ wPOKT to enable liquidity | ✅ w/ ability to be fully IBC compatible |
Utility Focus | ❌ w/ the need to maintain a Tendermint fork, validator sets, etc… | ✅ w/ Comet BFT validators and the future option to delegate Consensus & Persistence to Data Availability networks. |
Permissionless Gateways | 🟡 w/ PNF management of app stakes | ✅ w/ the addition of the Gateway actor and permissionless staking |
Trustless Applications | ❌ w/ the need for an off-chain Gateway an AAT management | ✅ w/ permissionless Gateway ↔ Application delegation |
Permissionless Services | ⏳ w/ PNF management of chain_ids due to https://github.com/cosmos/iavl performance and state bloat | ✅ w/ the use of https://github.com/pokt-network/smt, https://www.notion.so/Active-WIP-v2-Morse-Shannon-Feature-Migration-992224592daf42f68571b976d3590eec?pvs=21, and permissionless Service staking |
Developer Productivity | ❌ w/ some minimal tooling in place | ✅ w/ exceptional code quality, development environment, testing utils, documentation, infra, etc… |
New Features w/ Future Upgrades | 🟡 w/ contributions from core ecosystem members | ✅ w/ a clear path, toolset, structure and more to enable Websockets, Watchers (on-chain QoS), LLMs, and more! |
New Tokenomic Models | 🟡 w/ new params such as RTTM and off-chain gateway burning | ✅ w/ TLMs and on-chain POKT price oracles |
Gateway Innovation | 🟡 w/ gateway kits being developed by community members with custom clients and SDKs. | ✅ w/ a more standard stack to test, develop and enable business models that merge on-chain & off-chain |
Relay Scalability | ⏳ w/ block size increases | |
Champion Rewards | 🚫 Not applicable | ✅ with TLMs and PNF partnerships |
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