Building blockchains in days w/ HyperSDK
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Building blockchains in days w/ HyperSDK
Following the development journey of creating high performance blockchains from scratch (GoLang)
The Head of Engineering at Ava Labs is building out virtual machines (VMs) in days using the HyperSDK (GoLang).
This rapid development process has been made possible by the new HyperSDK; allowing developers to quickly and efficiently build and deploy their own custom blockchains on Avalanche. These customizable blockchains can operate as an EVM or customized VM; they can be public or private and are _completely_ interoperable with the main Avalanche network + other subnets, regardless.
Builders can create specific features, deploy with the industry leading scalability and speed and cherish the flexibility to build a truly optimized user experience.
Call to action - Start building today or contribute to the HyperSDK.
HyperSDK allows you to fully build out VMs / blockchains in days rather than months.
Since the SDK launched, Patrick (Head of Engineering at Ava Labs) began building his own VMs in public. All decisions, missteps, and successes documented LIVE for you to follow along and build. Let’s check it out…
(All tweets below are threads! #HyperSDKJournal)
First off.. here’s Patrick explaining the HyperSDK in depth (1/27)
1/ First off...why Hyper?
Our SDK development philosophy is **performance above all else**.
If the SDKs we build don't reach hyper-scale (10-100k+ TPS), it won't matter how easy they are to use or how quick you can launch.
Using "Hyper" is a daily reminder of the north star.
To show developers how to build w/ the HyperSDK, he started with the “TokenVM”. (mint and swap fungible/non-fungible tokens)
[HyperSDK Build Journal]
Next up: Swaps on the TokenVM
To start, I'm just going to allow people to:
1) Create resting orders (with a fixed quantity and price)
2) Interact with resting orders (purchase some/all of the fixed quantity at a set price)
3) Cancel resting orders… https://t.co/sFr0kaMZiF
Patrick O'Grady 🔺 @_patrickogrady
He finished in… 24hrs. Now that’s the power of HyperSDK.
Took ~24 hours to implement a new blockchain on top of the #Avalanche HyperSDK that allows anyone to mint, transfer, and trade user-created tokens...all on-chain.
Cleaning up the README now and expect to merge it in the morning: github.com/ava-labs/hyper…
#HyperSDKJournal
Patrick O'Grady 🔺 @_patrickogrady
YOU can build a _powerful_ blockchain in days, too.
Don’t believe me? 👉
Core Packages:
Actions: 600 lines of code
Auth: 108 lines of code
Storage: 322 lines of code
The remainder is boilerplate stuff I need to abstract better/wrap in functions so I don't need to re-implement 😅.
The beauty of it all? It’s open source for anyone to use/iterate/build on. ALL of it, Including the TokenVM.
Just merged the TokenVM into the #Avalanche HyperSDK repository: github.com/ava-labs/hyper…
This awesome new runtime lets you mint, transfer, and trade user-generated tokens (all on-chain with an in-memory order book). #HyperSDKJournal
I made this demo to show you how to use it:
Now that he merged the repo, what’s next?
Obviously Avalanche Warp Messaging support. 🔺
What does AWM enable?
Move tokens + data between subnets out-of-the-box!🔥
Didn't think I'd get to do this so soon...but I just multi-plexed the P2P layer of the HyperSDK: github.com/ava-labs/hyper…
I had to add this router layer so that I could implement a "signature fetcher" without conflicting with the state syncer's usage of networking.… https://t.co/4d2wepvMFP
Some updates on AWM integration as we move forward 👇
E2E import/export tests are passing for the #Avalanche Warp Messaging integration into HyperSDK 🚀
I spin up 15 validators locally (5 just primary network, 5 on Subnet A, 5 on Subnet B), issue an export from Subnet A of the native asset, and issue an github.com/ava-labs/avala…… https://t.co/QO39JCm4CK
After some days of testing, AWM is showing insane speed👇
Now Full AWM support is near, but there’s been a new update🚨
Spent most of the night doing a total refactor of the token-cli to support #Avalanche Warp Messages (added an account selector + added a network selector that is persisted across shutdown + added support for AWM parsing to the integrated explorer): github.com/ava-labs/hyper…
This… https://t.co/GZJq9ilVvo
Avalanche 🔺 @avalancheavax
The Kickoff of the first Developer Community Call 🔥
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/live/hkGl_eCxGWQ?feature=share
Give it a listen to learn how you can build in Web3 🔥
From the Ava Labs engineering team, @_patrickogrady @AaronBuchwald and @stephenbuttolph will dive into:
🔺Engineering updates from the past week
🔺Insight into upcoming releases
🔺HyperSDK developments & #HyperSDKJournal
Patrick O'Grady 🔺 @_patrickogrady
To be continued…