NYZO: A High-Efficiency Proof-of-Diversity Blockchain for Verifiers

Laima Nandi Blog News April 22, 2020 | 0

The cryptocurrency industry is flooded with several interesting projects aimed at addressing new-age FinTech challenges and requirements. But to your surprise, several cryptocurrency projects are found compromising on either of these issues like completely open-source, democratic values, ease-of-use, and efficiency.

Nyzo is one such open-source blockchain project which is highly efficient, completely democratic, and highly decentralized. The great thing about Nyzo is that this is not just a forked or a tweaked version of another blockchain platform.

In fact, the Nyzo blockchain is built from ground zero having its native cryptocurrency dubbed Nyzo coins. The Nyzo are represented with a mathematical symbol ∩. Just like the smallest unit of Bitcoin is dubbed as ‘Satoshi’, the smallest unit of Nyzo is dubbed as ‘micronyzo’. A micronyzo is represented by the Greek letter mu, µ.

To ensure a seamless transaction process its users, Nyzo handles all the transactions at programmatic and blockchain levels through micronyzos.

The Concept of “Edges” and Proof-of-Diversity

The Nyzo blockchain network one of the popular concepts of “edges” for its functioning.

Frozen Edge: This is basically the highest block agreed by the verifier and will never change. The Proof-of-Diversity consensus mechanism can extend the frozen edge whenever required while making sure that two verifiers freeze different blocks at the same time.
Trailing Edge: This is the lowest block necessary and essential to determine the state of the frozen edge. Similarly, the “retention edge” is the lowest block wherein a verifier will service normal user requests.

To make it simple to understand, the frozen and the trailing edge are defined based on the characteristics of the blockchain. However, the “retention edge” is an arbitrary buffer used for bootstrapping new verifiers.

Coming to Nyzo’s Proof-of-Diversity consensus model, it works on the analysis of verification cycles. More the verification cycles, better is the authoritative form of the network.

The Proof-of-Diversity is completely different from the Proof-of-Work (PoW) and Proof-of-Stake (PoS) as it focuses on addressing some unique concerns to ensure the integrity of the blockchain. It does this by majorly relying on the diversity of participation that provides strength to the blockchain.

As a result, it offers better immunity to external attacks in comparison to PoW and PoS consensus models. In the Proof-of-Diversity, verifiers take turns in a circular order. Some ground rules ensure that no two verifiers clash and neither added/removed in the circular order very quickly.

The Proof-of-Diversity also has some inherent consensus techniques like Scoring and Voting explained in detail in its whitepaper.

In addition to all these characteristics, Nyzo developers say that the blockchain’s transaction-fee structure and absence of mining are critical characteristics for the Nyzo cryptocurrency to become a sustainable digital currency.

With its unique consensus model, the Nyzo cryptocurrency is not mined and has no mining rewards. The Genesis block i.e. the Block-0 in the Nyzo blockchain produced nearly 100 million coins. Outside the Genesis block, no coin-generation transactions are allowed making sure that there will be no more Nyzo coins produced.

The NyzoVerifier Repository

As we know the verifiers have a crucial role to maintain the strength of the Nyzo blockchain. Since Nyzo doesn’t have any mining structure for its coins, the verifiers are rewarded for the transactions on the network.

All transactions on the Nyzo blockchain incur a fee of 0.25%. This fee gets distributed evenly among the verifiers of the existing block and previous nine blocks.

Some of the key features of the NyzoVerifier repository are:

Sentinel: This safeguard the verifying nodes against external attacks and cycle outputs.
Developer First: The Open Nyzo is a hub for the community developers and presents an equal opportunity to make Nyzo accessible to all developers for use and further development.
All Time ON: The Nyzo blockchain functions 24 x 7. Nyzo network’s block time is seven seconds meaning a block is produced every seven seconds. Besides, the network can easily scale to high transaction volumes.
Multifaceted: The Nyzo blockchain is multi-faceted meaning that the Verifier, sentinel, client, micropay and documentation server all in one place.

As part of further development, the Nyzo developers are working on absolute democratization of the platform where no particular element will have absolute control over any activity of the network. Apart from more development, there is a serious emphasis on the sustainability factor as the Nyzo blockchain continues to evolve further.

The Nyzo Platforms And Community Forum

The developers behind Nyzo has properly segregated all its information and functions into two major websites. The nyzo.co gives all the technical and fundamental information regarding the Nyzo project.

nyzo.co – This website provides fundamental information like the whitepaper explaining the complete project idea and plans for further developments. The whitepaper explains the fundamental technology used behind developing Nyzo coins.
Besides, here you also get information about the trading platforms wherein you can buy/sell your Nyzo coins as well as the wallets supporting it.
Additionally, you can get all the real-time info of blocks, their hash functions, the cycle length and much more. Under the ‘what’s new’ section, users can also keep a tab on the latest released updates.
nyzo.net – This is more sort of a knowledgeable platform that walks users through the entire onboarding process. This website helps you explore different facets of the platform like the step-by-step onboarding process and everything about the proof-of-diversity.
It also gives complete information regarding the different types of wallets you can use to transact, store and vote. The “community proposals” section explains how to create and view new cycle transactions or vote for existing community proposals.
Besides, you can also get access to important documents, exchanges, and the nyzoVerifier repository on GitHub. The great thing is that users can manage their Nyzo coins using its dedicated mobile application on the Android platform.
Nyzo Forum – The Nyzo blockchain network has got its dedicated forum wherein all participants can interact as well as keep themselves informed of all the latest developments.
The Nyzo Forum also gives users direct access to the Nyzo community spread across different social media platforms like Twitter, Reddit, Telegram, Discord, etc.