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Loom is a new architecture for blockchain based on the idea of encoding passage of time as data. It can achieve up to 710,000 transactions per second on a 1 gigabit network without data partitioning. Loom can eventually recover from a fault of any size, and it provides a way to cheaply verify a distributed ledger.
Scaling blockchain has been a difficult challenge. Not only is scaling throughput a hard problem, but any high performance blockchain has to deal with an ever increasing mountain of data. Scaling bitcoin to just 25,000 transactions per second would create a petabyte of data each year.
We solve both of the problems by solving for time. The key innovation proposed by Loom is Proof of History — encoding passage of time as data into the ledger. Loom uses strong assumption of time to construct simpler and more efficient consensus and storage protocols.
https://github.com/loomprotocol/loom/milestones
The build produces a handle of command-line executables in the "target/release/" directory, loom and loomd.
Loom daemon
Usage: loomd [options]
Options:
-h, --help print this help menu
-s ADDRESS Run as a Spool node with the Loom address
-l PORT Run as a Loom with a listen port
user client that implements a basic wallet
Usage: loom FILE [options]
Options:
-c create a new address
-x transfer
-b check the balance of destination address
-l, --list list your addresses and balances
-h, --help print this help menu
-t ADDRESS destination address
-f ADDRESS source address
-a AMOUNT amount
For development:
$ cargo buildOptimized for performance:
$ cargo build --release