为什么我们选择 Sui 而不是 Solana 作为我们的 DePIN

当 Chirp（电信的 DePIN）选择区块链时，显而易见的选择是 Solana。但它决定与隋一起去。

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.

当 Chirp（一种用于电信的去中心化物理基础设施网络 (DePIN)）选择区块链时，显而易见的选择是 Solana。但它决定与隋一起去。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，从加密新闻头条来看，Solana 似乎已经牢牢确立了自己作为 DePIN 所在地的地位。从 Hivemapper 到 Helium，一些最著名的 DePIN 项目都是建立在这个区块链上的。但当我们探索 Solana 作为构建项目的区块链时，有些事情并不太合理。因此，在进行分析并进行必要的尽职调查后，我们决定选择 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.

让我们犹豫的第一件事是 Solana 上普遍存在的中断。 2022 年对于整个加密行业来说是一个恐怖的一年，Solana 似乎每隔一个月就会下跌一次。但即使在 Firedancer 验证器客户端上线（旨在阻止任何进一步的中断）之后，网络在 2024 年 2 月仍然出现了近五个小时的宕机。这可能是一个侥幸，但这些可能性并没有满足我们满怀信心。

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 似乎正在努力应对自己日益增长的受欢迎程度。今年，由于 memecoin 狂热以及类似比特币的矿石开采迅速流行，网络出现了几次拥堵。在过去的几个月里，随着 BONK 和 WIF 等模因币交易者涌入网络，Solana 的用户抱怨交易失败的情况激增。这种疯狂是对网络处理真实交易量的能力的一个很好的测试——我不能绝对自信地告诉你不同的区块链不会陷入困境——但对我们来说，这是另一个危险信号。

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.

当谈到 DePIN，尤其是像我们这样实时处理大量数据的项目时，我们对区块链的两个主要要求是可靠性和可扩展性。当 Solana 首次成为“以太坊杀手”时，这是最令人兴奋的事情——它承诺每秒可靠地处理超过 50,000 笔交易。但实际上，它当然远低于现实生活条件下的情况。对于我们在 Chirp 所做的事情来说，这还不够。

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，出于这些主要原因，当我们开始寻找 DePIN 区块链的“圣杯”时，我们决定超越 Solana 的明显选择。我们知道这意味着冒险进入一些未知的领域。毕竟，在规模更大、更成熟的 Layer1 中，Solana 确实是速度和交易成本低（这是我们的另一个关键标准）的首选。通过这次搜索，我们找到了 Sui——一个于 2023 年 5 月 3 日上市的区块链。

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.

我们相信 Sui 真正改进了上一次牛市的区块链设计，我们认为它比任何其他 Layer1 更接近解决臭名昭著的区块链三难困境。它具有成本效益、去中心化且安全。它拥有 100 个验证器，分布在全球各地，其吞吐量从 10,871tps 到高达 297,000tps 不等。我是一名工程师，所以我知道不要总是期待最好的性能 - 事实上，我更倾向于预测现实生活中最坏的结果。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 升级（最近在测试网上上线）将使网络速度更快，将共识延迟降低 80% 至 390 毫秒 (ms)。对于那些没有技术背景来提供这个数字背景的人来说，可以说，它真的很快。事实上，我相信这将使 Sui 成为 DeFi 领域最快的区块链。不过，我会在应得的地方给予赞扬：Solana 已经拥有约 400 毫秒的共识延迟，因此两者之间的差异很小。

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.

不过，除了交易处理速度之外，Sui 仍然优于 Solana 的是更低的成本及其超安全的编程语言 Move。从成本角度来看，Sui 过去 30 天的平均 Gas 费仅为 0.003932633 SUI（SUI 价格目前约为 0.86 美元），而近几个月来 Solana 的平均费用在不同时间点高达 0.03 美元。当然，这仍然只是以太坊费用的一小部分，但这些费用确实会增加。

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

当然，我们在这里并没有将苹果与苹果进行比较。尽管 Sui 和 Solana 上的活跃钱包数量实际上相当（尽管 Solana 是一个更成熟的区块链），但 Sui 并没有经历过与 Solana 类似的情况