為什麼我們選擇 Sui 而不是 Solana 作為我們的 DePIN

當 Chirp（電信的 DePIN）選擇區塊鏈時，顯而易見的選擇是 Solana。但它決定與隋一起去。

When Chirp — a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) for telecoms — was choosing a blockchain, the obvious option was Solana. But it decided to go with Sui instead. Here's why.

當 Chirp（一種用於電信的去中心化實體基礎設施網路 (DePIN)）選擇區塊鏈時，顯而易見的選擇是 Solana。但它決定與隋一起去。原因如下。

Initially, looking at crypto news headlines, it would seem that Solana has firmly established itself as the home of DePIN. From Hivemapper to Helium, some of the most well-known DePIN projects are built on this blockchain. But when we explored Solana as a blockchain on which to build our project, something didn’t quite add up. So, after getting our analytical hats on and running the requisite due diligence checks, we decided to go with Sui over Solana.

最初，從加密新聞頭條來看，Solana 似乎牢牢確立了自己作為 DePIN 所在地的地位。從 Hivemapper 到 Helium，一些最著名的 DePIN 專案都是建立在這個區塊鏈上的。但當我們探索 Solana 作為構建專案的區塊鏈時，有些事情並不太合理。因此，在進行分析並進行必要的盡職調查後，我們決定選擇 Sui 而不是 Solana。

The first thing that gave us pause was the prevalence of outages on Solana. In 2022 – an annus horribilis for the crypto industry as a whole – Solana seemed to be going down every other month. But even after the Firedancer validator client went live (which was meant to put a stop to any further outages), the network still went down for nearly five hours in February 2024. It may have been a fluke, but those odds didn’t fill us with confidence.

讓我們猶豫的第一件事是 Solana 上普遍存在的中斷。 2022 年是整個加密產業的恐怖年，Solana 似乎每隔一個月就會下跌一次。但即使在 Firedancer 驗證器用戶端上線（旨在阻止任何進一步的中斷）之後，網路在 2024 年 2 月仍然出現了近五個小時的宕機。我們滿懷信心。

On top of this, Solana seemed to be struggling to handle its own increase in popularity. Several times this year, the network has become congested due to memecoin mania, as well as Bitcoin-like Ore mining, which quickly grew in popularity. In the last few months, Solana has been exploding with users complaining about transactions failing, as traders of memecoins like BONK and WIF flooded the network. This sort of frenzy is a good test of a network’s ability to handle real trading volume – and I can’t tell you with absolute confidence that a different blockchain wouldn’t struggle – but for us, this was another red flag.

最重要的是，Solana 似乎正在努力應對自己日益增長的受歡迎程度。今年，由於 memecoin 狂熱以及類似比特幣的礦石開採迅速流行，網路出現了幾次擁塞。在過去的幾個月裡，隨著 BONK 和 WIF 等迷因幣交易者湧入網絡，Solana 的用戶抱怨交易失敗的情況激增。這種瘋狂是對網路處理真實交易量的能力的一個很好的測試——我不能絕對自信地告訴你不同的區塊鏈不會陷入困境——但對我們來說，這是另一個危險信號。

When it comes to DePIN, and especially projects like ours, which handles huge amounts of data in real time, the two main things we require from a blockchain are reliability and scalability. When Solana first emerged as an “Ethereum-killer,” this was the most exciting thing about it – its promise to reliably process upwards of 50,000 transactions per second. In reality, though, it is of course far less than that under real-life conditions. For what we do at Chirp, that simply isn’t enough.

當涉及 DePIN，尤其是像我們這樣即時處理大量資料的專案時，我們對區塊鏈的兩個主要要求是可靠性和可擴展性。當 Solana 首次成為「以太坊殺手」時，這是最令人興奮的事情——它承諾每秒可靠地處理超過 50,000 筆交易。但實際上，它當然遠低於現實生活條件下的情況。對於我們在 Chirp 所做的事情來說，這還不夠。

So for these main reasons, when we began our search for “the Holy Grail” of DePIN blockchains, we decided to look beyond the obvious choice of Solana. We knew this meant venturing into somewhat unchartered waters. After all, among the bigger and more established Layer1s, Solana really would be the top pick for speed, as well as low transaction costs (which was another one of our key criteria). This search led us to Sui – a blockchain that went public on May 3, 2023.

因此，出於這些主要原因，當我們開始尋找 DePIN 區塊鏈的「聖杯」時，我們決定超越 Solana 的明顯選擇。我們知道這意味著冒險進入一些未知的領域。畢竟，在規模更大、更成熟的 Layer1 中，Solana 確實是速度和交易成本低（這是我們的另一個關鍵標準）的首選。透過這次搜索，我們找到了 Sui——一個於 2023 年 5 月 3 日上市的區塊鏈。

We believe Sui truly improves on the design of the blockchains from the last bull market, in our view getting closer than any other Layer1 to solving the infamous Blockchain Trilemma. It is cost-efficient, decentralized and secure. It boasts 100 validators, distributed across the globe, and its throughput has ranged from 10,871tps to a whopping 297,000tps. I’m an engineer, so I know not to expect the best performance all the time – in fact, I’m far more inclined to anticipate the worst result in real-life scenarios. But even 10,000tps is still pretty exceptional.

我們相信 Sui 真正改進了上一次牛市的區塊鏈設計，我們認為它比任何其他 Layer1 更接近解決臭名昭著的區塊鏈三難困境。它具有成本效益、去中心化且安全。它擁有 100 個驗證器，分佈在全球各地，其吞吐量從 10,871tps 到高達 297,000tps 不等。我是一名工程師，所以我知道不要總是期待最好的性能 - 事實上，我更傾向於預測現實生活中最壞的結果。但即使 10,000tps 仍然非常出色。

On top of this, Sui’s Mysticeti upgrade – which recently went live on testnet – is set to make the network even faster, bringing consensus latency down 80% to 390 milliseconds (ms). For those without the technical background to give this number context, suffice it to say, it’s really fast. In fact, I believe this will make Sui the fastest blockchain in the DeFi space. I’ll give credit where credit is due, though: Solana already boasts a consensus latency of around 400ms, so the difference between the two will be tiny.

除此之外，Sui 的 Mysticeti 升級（最近在測試網路上上線）將使網路速度更快，將共識延遲降低 80% 至 390 毫秒 (ms)。對於那些沒有技術背景來提供這個數位背景的人來說，可以說，它真的很快。事實上，我相信這將使 Sui 成為 DeFi 領域最快的區塊鏈。不過，我會在應得的地方給予讚揚：Solana 已經擁有約 400 毫秒的共識延遲，因此兩者之間的差異很小。

What Sui does still hold over Solana, though – apart from transaction processing speed – are the lower costs and its ultra-secure programming language, Move. Cost-wise, the average gas fee on Sui for the last 30 days is just 0.003932633 SUI (with SUI price currently sitting at around $0.86), while average fees on Solana have been as high as $0.03 at various points during recent months. Still a fraction of the fees on Ethereum, of course, but these things do add up.

不過，除了交易處理速度之外，Sui 仍然優於 Solana 的是更低的成本及其超安全的程式語言 Move。從成本角度來看，Sui 過去 30 天的平均 Gas 費僅為 0.003932633 SUI（SUI 價格目前約為 0.86 美元），而近幾個月來 Solana 的平均費用在不同時間點高達 0.03 美元。當然，這仍然只是以太坊費用的一小部分，但這些費用確實會增加。

Of course, we’re not quite comparing apples with apples here. Though the number of active wallets on Sui and Solana is actually comparable (despite Solana being a more established blockchain), Sui hasn’t experienced anything similar to Solana’s

當然，我們在這裡並沒有將蘋果與蘋果進行比較。儘管 Sui 和 Solana 上的活躍錢包數量實際上相當（儘管 Solana 是一個更成熟的區塊鏈），但 Sui 並沒有經歷過與 Solana 類似的情況