TM Rating: 85% |
Review Date: May 4th, 2021
Chia Network is an improved blockchain and smart transaction platform being built since 2017 to improve the global financial and payments systems. Chia has a new innovative Nakamoto consensus algorithm, called Proof of Space and Time, that removes the energy demands of Proof of Work from the system. Chialisp is Chia’s new smart transaction programming language that is powerful, easy to audit, and secure and will unlock the security, transparency, and ease of use that cryptocurrencies promise.
Chia is ambitious and intends to complete a fully compliant SEC registered equity IPO to take the company’s equity public on an American stock exchange. Led by Bram Cohen, who is behind the peer-to-peer BitTorrent protocol, the platform is being built by a large team of experienced developers and their codebase is among the best ones in the Blockchain ecosystem. In the short term, the use of a brand-new development language to build on top of the network might slow the developer adoption but as this new Blockchain brings an innovative consensus as well as other benefits, we see it as a contender to keep track of in the long term. As Chia is still in the pre-minting phase, the token XCH is not transferable at the time of writing, so only IOUs are available on a few exchanges such as Gate.io. As the available supply is very limited, it might represent a risk to trade before more liquidity reaches exchanges.
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| Initial Screening | |||||
| Keep researching | |||||
| Does this project need to use blockchain technology? | Yes | ||||
| Can this project be realized? | Yes | ||||
| Is there a viable use case for this project? | Yes | ||||
| Is the project protected from commonly known attacks? | Yes | ||||
| Are there no careless errors in the whitepaper? | Yes | ||||
| Project Technology Score | |||||
| Description | Scorecard | ||||
| Innovation (Out Of 11) | 10 | ||||
| How have similar projects performed? | Good | 2 | |||
| Are there too many innovations? | Medium | 1 | |||
| Percentage of crypto users that will use the project? | Over 11% | 5 | |||
| Is the project unique? | Yes | 2 | |||
| Architecture (Out of 12) | 7 | ||||
| Overall feeling after reading whitepaper? | Medium | 1 | |||
| Resistance to possible attacks? | Good | 2 | |||
| Complexity of the architecture? | Not Too Complex | 2 | |||
| Time taken to understand the architecture? | More than 1 hour | 0 | |||
| Overall feeling about the architecture after deeper research? | Medium | 2 | |||
| Has the project been hacked ? | No | 0 | |||
| Code Quality (out of 15) | 14 | ||||
| Is the project open source? | Yes | 2 | |||
| Does the project use good code like C,C++, Rust, Erlang, Ruby, etc? | Yes | 2 | |||
| Could the project use better programming languages? | No | 0 | |||
| Github number of lines? | More than 10k | 1 | |||
| Github commits per month? | More than 10 | 2 | |||
| What is the quality of the code? | Good | 2 | |||
| How well is the code commented? | Outstanding | 2 | |||
| Overall quality of the test coverage? | Good | 1 | |||
| Overall quality of the maintainability index? | Outstanding | 2 | |||
| When Mainnet (out of 5) | 5 | ||||
| When does the mainnet come out? | Mainnet Ready | 5 | |||
| Usability for Infrastructure Projects (out of 5) | 5 | ||||
| Is it easy to use for the end customer? | Yes | 5 | |||
| Team (out of 7) | 6 | ||||
| Number of active developers? | 5+ | 2 | |||
| Developers average Git Background? | Senior | 2 | |||
| Developers coding style? | Solid | 2 | |||
| Total Score (out of 55) | 47 | ||||
| Percentage Score | |||||
| Innovation | 18.18% | ||||
| Architecture | 12.73% | ||||
| Code Quality | 25.45% | ||||
| Mainnet | 9.09% | ||||
| Usability | 9.09% | ||||
| Team | 10.91% | ||||
| Total | 85.45% | ||||
