用图灵完备的智能合约扩展比特币

On November 1, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin whitepaper, giving rise to the world's first and greatest crypto-currency. With the activation of Segwit and Taproot, the community of Bitcoin allowed the TPS of the network to be scaled upward, thus allowing Bitcoin to serve as a solid payment-tool and store of value. Now, the Skaling project seeks to scale the functionality of Bitcoin through the introduction of Turing-complete smart contracts, which will lead to a series of new innovations within the ecosystem.

Skaling is based on a module-system broadly compatible with Ada frame-technology and ML-style first-order polymorphism which can generate parsing kernels for arbitrary variants of both wire-protocols and RPC protocols. That is to say, we believe that technological progress in the second-layer era of blockchain-history will require the promulgation of “meta full nodes” which can be transformed through preprocessing into functional second- and third-layer P2P-enabled “nodes.” The Bitcoin scaling protocol subsystem and the broader constellation of BSPs will not only harmonize the presently incipient marriage of Bitcoin to NFT technology, but also provide a platform for continual extension and participation among third-party programmers. For example, the pioneering of NFT-bound fungible minting can clear the way for future experiments in “capstone computation” (that is, secure computation based on capability-tokens rather than access-lists). The separation of the “gas” which powers smart contracts into a first-class currency can lead to the management of computational externalities and the establishment of digital storefronts where the cost of invocations are not obligationally borne by the customer.