about High Performance Blockchain-
High Performance Blockchain is an ambitious project focused on scalability, based in China. The platform has been compared to EOS and is sometimes called “the EOS of China”, however it appears that the team behind HPB has been treating the scalability issue differently – via both software and hardware. The team hopes that the hardware acceleration model will aid the transaction throughput and latency, and will enable unrestricted real-world use cases.
HPB has integrated hardware into the picture via system called “Blockchain Offload Engine”. It is designed to implement entirely into the blockchain’s software, while utilising a combination of regular serial processing and parallel processing as seen in FPGA/ASIC chips, for better performance.
Interestingly, the project has a confirmed partnership with UnionPay Smart (confirmed in the white paper). UnionPay Smart reportedly handles about 80% of China’s banking transaction data, and the implementation of blockchain technology appears to be logical.
General Virtual Machine Mechanism-
The goal of HPB is to support a variety of virtual machines, and, over time, add new virtual machines as needed.
HPB smart contract virtual machines are lightweight and support multi-level contracts. They combine the underlying virtual machine with high-level program language analysis and transformation, and flexibly support the basic applications of the virtual machine. Through customized API operation, the external interface of the virtual machine
can be realized, and can flexibly interact with ledger data and external data. This mechanism achieves high performance of native code execution when running the smart contract. A GVM supporting different blockchains is also implemented.
The project was launched in the first quarter of 2017. Since them, the project has been developing. The most recent news is regarding the launch of a test net. The team announced the launching of a test net in the beginning of April, 2018. More particularly, the event went public on April, 3rd, 24:00 (UTC+8), according to an official tweet.
Smart Contract System
HPB has a complete smart contract system. Each smart contract acts as a yoke on the asset management lifecycle. Submission, deployment, usage, and cancellation are completely controlled and managed by the smart contract. There’s also a smart contract auditing system that involves a combination of automatic auditing tools and professional auditors. To make smart contract deployment as easy as possible, HPB has a smart contract template that can be used for general business applications.
