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我们采访了LiquidApps的CEO Beni Hakak，聊了聊他们的产品，他希望这些产品能够改变区块链规模化、协作和交互性的未来。
能和我们介绍一下LiquidApps和DAPP Network吗？
2017-2018年，区块链的发展阶段，我们看到了整个生态很多项目努力想实现自己发展的里程碑。但是，因为去中心化基础架构还不够成熟，所以团队们只能从头开始搭建一切，结果，他们就没有太多时间关注怎么给自己的终端用户带来有价值的体验。
区块链开发者面对的是很多核心资源，如内存和算力，严重不足。他们缺少搭建可规模化的去中心化应用（dApp）的基础开发工具。
现在已经到了2020年，但开发者还是缺少主要资源。市场动荡导致网络堵塞，给用户带来的麻烦，对于利用去中心化金融（DeFi）服务的用户尤甚。这就体现了规模化服务实际上依然是非常重要的，尤其是在今天。
开发者可以利用DAPP Network使用一整套有力的服务，这些服务都是搭建可规模化的dApp必不可少的。不管是足够的去中心化内存空间、强大的数据库、甚至是LiquidChains（这个区块链即服务解决方案让所有人都可以简单地设定好个性化EOSIO区块链），所有这些都可以在Dapp Network上轻松地找到，Dapp Network是一个“即插即用”的平台，它优化了去中心化开发的速度和负担。
此外，DAPP Network还是跨越了多个区块链的中间通用件。因为它连接了多个区块链，所以在第一牵引层出现或转移的任何地方，dApp都可以实现规模化、增长用户基础。
你怎么想到要做LiquidApps的？
我们坚信区块链技术的潜力，我们也相信凭借其协作机会创造的价值，它有能力改变金融系统和网络。
在我们看来，不管应用是不是利用区块链技术搭建的，终端用户都不应该接触其后端。同样，开发者在搭建dApp的时候也应该有无缝的体验。
我们的创始人们注意到，业界在以太坊和EOS公网上尝试推广产品的时候普遍遇到困难。只要这些困难还在，利用区块链就是白日梦。
所以，我们想为开发者提供关键服务的一站式购物体验。这样，他们就可以轻松地为主流社区搭建可靠、可用的dApp，于是，就有了LiquidApps。
为什么你会想到用区块链技术，又为什么会特别选中EOSIO呢？
区块链独特的价值主张是去掉利益相关者之间的信任，并用去中心化协议来取代。因为企业和个人间这样去信任化的联系数量可以指数加速，所以这对企业业务和金融都有深远的影响。意识到这点以后，我们就着手搭建工具和基础架构，让去中心化发展和演化成为下一代经济和社会的基础。
而我们会选择Block.one的EOSIO则是因为它有灵活而交易模型和亚秒级的区块时间，这样基于EOSIO的区块链就有了加强的规模化特点。我们坚定地相信相互操作的力量，所以我们也为EOSIO的愿景折服：多个基于EOSIO的区块链可以联系起来、形成一个单一的、强大的区块链层。现在我们已经可以通过我们的区块链桥LiquidX实现这个目标了。
我们很荣幸成为EOSIO社区的一员，社区中优秀的团队和个人也给我们留下了深刻的印象，因为他们都在推动去中心化技术的发展。
LiquidApps现在处于哪个阶段？
我们在2019年2月启动了DAPP Network，现在它已经发展成一个聚集了开发者、企业家和营销人员的活跃社区。第一天我们就在DAPP Network启动了第一项服务：去中心化的记忆解决方案vRAM。之后，DAPP Network社区不断发展成熟，推出了14个额外服务。有些在生产级上保持了稳定，还有些在测试和部署的后期。
您遇到了哪些困难，又是怎么克服的呢？
在任何时候，我们要关注的都不是短暂的热度，而是长远发展和可持续性。此外，我们也还要解决DAPP Network的中间件层的技术问题。
好在我们拥有一支出色的团队，他们正在创造突破性的技术和信仰我们战略愿景的活跃社区。我们正在申请资源管理的专利，这个技术可以实现在区块链节点第二层阅读和编写数据等。现在整个行业都进入黄金时期，这个背景下，这个技术就很重要了，因为我们会需要多层效率。
此外，新冠病毒对整个经济都产生了破坏，包括我们公司。我们意识到，我们的技术可以有助于疫苗的开发，我们就发起了一个社区项目、动员了我们一些资源，建立了CoVax。
CoVax这个应用搭载在利用LiquidApps完成的LiquidChains上面的，用户可以利用这个应用，从自己的手机或桌面中为抗疫的研究人员捐助一些处理能力。CoVax是基于社区的项目，整个生态中已经有些超级节点和CoVax LiquidChains中的DAPP服务提供商等实体加入我们这个项目了。我们很高兴地看到区块链社区能够团结起来、加快全球的抗疫事业。
您有什么扩展计划？
DAPP Network从头开始构建，现在横向上已经实现了巨大的规模化。这个方法让各个区块链能够联系起来，和谐运作。DAPP Network的区块链间通信（IBC）解决方案已经把EOS公网和以太坊联系起来，最近还刚刚把EOS公网和WAX和Telos联系到一起。
LiquidChain则提供了另一个规模化的方法，尤其是在公网堵塞的情况下。多个LiquidChains可以被设置成在应用代码和交易过程的不同部分同时交互和工作，立即优化资源利用（如分片）。
比如，如果dApp需要担心某个特定的公网堵塞，它就可以在应用交互生命周期中，启用自己的LiquidChain，在这个链上储存数据和运行运算，在任何时间连接到自己选择的公链上。
利用DAPP Network IBC连接到许多链的LiquidChain相当于“胶水”，把独立的网络粘结成一个可互操作的网络。建立在EOSIO、以太坊或者可能其它任何智能合约链上的dApp都可以把自己的操作转移到LiquidChain上，减少运算中的gas值加快运算，同时，按需保持和主网的联系。
利用DAPP Network实现规模化的另一个好处是便宜。dApp开发者在构建和运行自己的区块链应用的时候会遇到很多经济选择，如果他们能集成DAPP Network的vRAM系统，他们的成本能够极大降低。为了实现真正的主流应用，我们需要规模化和便宜——这就是我们真正想展示的。
你参与了EOSIO社区哪些项目，社区对LiquidApps有怎样的想法呢？
我们利用vRAM启动LiquidApps的时候，社区马上因为我们创新的规模化方法感到非常高兴。之后，我们就一直和社区互动和成长，我们也采取了一系列活动鼓励积极参与DAPP Network。
我们在社区第一个项目是DAPP代币AirHODL，当时EOS公网代币的先驱持有人可以利用免费获得一定的DAPP代币。AirHODL约等于airdrop，其中包括一个归属机制，鼓励代币持有人“HODL（坚定持有）”并参与DAPP Network的长期发展。
去年以来我们最大的亮点是DAPP Network的黑客马拉松。这次远程黑客马拉松是2019年基于EOSIO最大的黑客马拉松，全球的开发者、企业家、营销人员和产品设计师都聚集起来，利用LiquidApps的分布式网络服务，在EOSIO上构建可规模化的产品。
跨越了12个时区的共234名参与者提交了20个项目。这次黑客马拉松由EOSIO最杰出的几位人才指导、由行业领袖组成的委员会评价。获胜的项目还在开发中，我们迫不及待想和整个世界分享。
我们现在由一些公开的补贴和奖励，我们鼓励每个人能都参与、有机会获得大奖和协作机会。
迄今为止，社区对这些项目的回应都好得难以置信。我们能够看到DAPP Network把世界各地这么多优秀的团队和个人团结起来，在EOSIO上构建突破性的技术，我们感到不胜荣幸。
聊聊您的团队吧？
LiquidApps是两个合伙人独特的产物：CEO Beni Hakak 和 CTO Tal Muskal
Beni(右侧)是一个经验丰富的策略师，他把技术管理经验和加密经济专业技能结合起来了。
Tal（左侧）是科技行业的连续创业者，他在规模化复杂的软件系统中经验极其丰富，他构建的一个逛够网络一天实现了10亿点击。
这样的两个人合作就产生了LiquidApps和DAPP Network.
Tal和Beni的团队背景多样，包括全明星工程师、运营经理、内容创造者，其中很多人过去都有自己的EOSIO项目。团队还包括：
Nathan Rempel，之前在Karma/GenerEOS工作
Nat Prudhomme，著名的EOSIO导师
David Benchimol，之前在Bancor工作，他在开发EOSIO和以太坊上经验丰富
Zack Gall是EOSIO运行时间最长的podcast– Everything EOS—的主持人
您还和哪些项目合作了？
我们主要在三个领域和他人合作：
超级节点（BP）/DAPP服务提供商（DSP）：DAPP Network上很多DAPP服务其同上是一个，或者多个基于EOSIO的区块链的超级节点。DAPP Network上的DSP包括EOS Nation, Blockstart, Cafe Block, EOS USA, EOS Rio, Malta Block 和 DAPP Solutions。
基于EOSIO的区块链：DAPP Network和区块链无关，因此，我们和很多基于EOSIO的区块链合作，把DAPP Network服务本地化集成到他们的网络中。现在，DAPP Network除了在EOS公网，同时还在Wax和Telos上运行。
dApp和服务：有些项目，如Equilibrium, Chintai, 和 DAPP accounts，利用DAPP Network服务运行自己的dApp。
您觉得LiquidApps的前景如何?
一开始我们就认为，区块链行业内部的部落注意是不行的。我们积极地想要瓦解区块链之间地壁垒，我们希望让区块链间地合作更加无缝。
我们相信，未来是真正的多链的，因此我们已经开始为开发人员提供规模化服务和去信任化的功能，不管他们希望使用的是EOS公网、其它EOSIO网络（WAX, Telos等）、以太坊、Tezo或任何其它智能合约区块链。这种情况下，我们希望成为EOSIO和其它区块链的跨链解决方案，让每一方都能用自己独特的方式实现规模化。
您能用一句话概括LiquiApps和DAPP Network, 让听众记住你们吗？
DAPP Network提供了规模化地去中心化应用的搭建模块—不管他们可能实际住在那里，当然你也可以直接叫我们“规模化解决方案。”
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We interviewed Beni Hakak, CEO at LiquidApps, about their products, which he hopes will change the future of blockchain scalability, collaboration, and interoperability.
Could you introduce LiquidApps and the DAPP Network for us?
During the growth phases of 2017-2018, we saw lots of projects across the ecosystem struggling to reach their development milestones. The immaturity of decentralized infrastructure meant that teams had to build everything from scratch. This left them little time to focus on delivering valuable experiences for their end users.
Blockchain developers faced significant scarcities of key resources, such as storage and computation. They lacked fundamental development tools for building scalable decentralized applications (dApps).
We are now in 2020 and developers are still lacking critical resources. Volatile markets caused networks to congest, leading to difficulties for users, especially those using Decentralized Finance (DeFi) services. This showed just how crucial scalability services actually still are, especially today.
With the DAPP Network, developers can now access a whole suite of powerful services that are essential for building scalable dApps. From abundant decentralized storage, to robust oracles, and even LiquidChains – a blockchain-as-a-service solution that allows anyone to easily spin up a customizable EOSIO chain. All these services are easily accessible on the Dapp Network, as a single ‘plug-and-play’ platform, optimizing the speed, and affordability of decentralized development.
And as an added bonus, the DAPP Network is the first universal middleware to work across multiple blockchains. By connecting the various chains it allows dApps to scale and grow their user bases wherever the Layer 1 traction emerges or shifts.
What inspired you to create LiquidApps?
We’re big believers in the potential of blockchain technology and its capacity to transform both the financial system and the internet with value-creating collaboration opportunities.
In our view, end users should not be exposed to the backend of the applications with which they interact, whether they are built on blockchain technology or not. Likewise, developers should have a seamless experience building dApps.
Our co-founders realized that the difficulties developers were experiencing in trying to scale products on Ethereum and the EOS public network were commonplace within the industry. As long as these problems persisted, blockchain adoption would remain a dream.
So, we committed ourselves to solving these problems by providing developers with a one-stop shop for crucial services. This makes it easier for them to build compelling and usable dApps for the mainstream, and hence, LiquidApps was born.
Why did you decide to use blockchain technology, and specifically EOSIO?
Blockchain’s unique value proposition is in eliminating the role of trust between network stakeholders and replacing it with decentralized consensus. This has far-reaching ramifications for the way business and finance can be done as the number of trustless connections between companies and individuals can accelerate exponentially. As soon as we realized this, we set out to build the tools and infrastructure that would allow decentralization to grow and evolve into the foundation of our next generation economy and society.
We gravitated towards Block.one’s EOSIO due to its flexible transaction model and sub-second block times, which give EOSIO-based chains their enhanced scalability features. As firm believers in the power of interoperability, we were also drawn to the vision of EOSIO: multiple EOSIO-based chains connected together to form a single, powerful blockchain layer. This is now possible through our blockchain bridge, LiquidX.
It is a privilege to be a part of the EOSIO community, and we’re so impressed by the talented teams and individuals pushing the boundaries of decentralized technology.
What stage is LiquidApps at today?
The DAPP Network was launched in February 2019, and has since grown into a vibrant community of developers, entrepreneurs, and marketers. On day one we launched the first service, a decentralized memory solution called vRAM, on the DAPP Network. Since then, the DAPP Network community has matured and released 14 additional services. Some of them are already production grade stable while others are in advanced stages of testing and deployment.
What are the challenges you have had to overcome, and how did you do it?
We had to focus on long-term growth and sustainability over short-term hype, at every moment. Furthermore, there were also technical challenges we had to solve with the DAPP Network middleware layer.
Thankfully, we have an excellent team that is creating breakthrough technology and an engaged community that believes in the strategic vision of what we’re doing. We have patents pending for resource management, allowing reading and writing data on second tier blockchain nodes, and more. This is particularly exciting as the industry tries to move towards primetime, because several layers of efficiencies will be needed.
Additionally, COVID-19 was a disruptive force for the entire economy, our company included. When we saw that we could put our technology to use in order to aid in the fight for a vaccine, we initiated a community project and mobilized some of our resources to build CoVax.
The CoVax app, which is based on a dedicated LiquidChain that LiquidApps has created, allows users to donate processing power from their phones or desktops towards researchers working to find a cure for COVID-19. CoVax is a community-driven initiative, and we have already been joined by a number of entities in the ecosystem who participate as Block Producers and DAPP Service Providers on the CoVax LiquidChain. We are excited to see how the blockchain community will come together to accelerate these global efforts as the situation unfolds.
What are your plans for scaling?
The DAPP Network was built from the ground up to exponentially scale horizontally. This approach enables connecting blockchains to one another so they work together in harmony. The DAPP Network Inter-blockchain Communication (IBC) solution has already demonstrated a connection between the EOS public network and Ethereum, and has most recently connected the EOS public network to WAX and Telos.
LiquidChains offer another avenue for scaling, especially in times of congestion on public networks. Multiple LiquidChains can be configured to interact and work simultaneously on different parts of the application code and different parts of the transaction process, allowing for more effective use of resources (such as sharding), right now.
For example, dApps that are concerned about congestion on a specific public chain can spin up their own LiquidChain, store their data and run computations on that chain, and connect to a public chain of their choice at any time in the application-interaction life cycle, should they wish to do so.
A LiquidChain connected to various chains with DAPP Network IBC can serve as the ‘glue’ that stitches disparate networks into a single, interoperable mesh. dApps on EOSIO, Ethereum, or potentially any other smart contract chain can migrate their operations on to a LiquidChain for gas-reduced quick computation, all while retaining a connection to the main network of their choice, as needed.
An additional advantage of harnessing DAPP Network scaling is increased affordability. dApp developers face a number of economic decisions when building and running their blockchain application, and their costs can be lowered significantly by integrating the DAPP Network’s vRAM System. This is exactly what we want to demonstrate, that in order to achieve real mainstream adoption, we need scalability and affordability.
What EOSIO community initiatives have you participated in and how has the community responded to LiquidApps?
When LiquidApps launched with vRAM, the community was immediately excited by the scaling innovations we brought to the table. Since then we have kept engaging and growing together with the community, and have run a number of initiatives to encourage active participation in the DAPP Network.
Our first community initiative was the DAPP token AirHODL, under which pioneer EOS public network token holders of that time were entitled to receive a free allocation of DAPP tokens. An airdrop with a twist, the AirHODL consists of a vesting mechanism that encourages token holders to ‘HODL’ and participate in the long-term growth of the DAPP Network.
One of our unequivocal highlights from last year was the DAPP Network Hackathon. This online and remote hackathon was one of the biggest EOSIO-based hackathons in 2019, and it brought together a global community of developers, entrepreneurs, marketers, and product designers to build scalable products on EOSIO using LiquidApps’ distributed network services.
In all, 234 participants from across 12 time zones got involved, with 20 projects submitted. The hackathon was mentored by some of the brightest talents in EOSIO, and judged by a panel of industry leaders. The winning projects are still being developed and we can’t wait for them to be shared with the world.
We currently have a number of open grants and bounties, and invite everyone to participate for a chance to win great prizes and collaboration opportunities.
Thus far, the community responses to these initiatives have been incredible. It is gratifying and humbling to witness the DAPP Network bringing together so many awesome teams and individuals from around the world to create breakthrough technology on EOSIO.
Can you introduce your team?
LiquidApps was born out of a unique synergy between the cofounders, CEO Beni Hakak and CTO Tal Muskal.
Beni (right) is an experienced strategist that brings technology managerial experience and crypto economic expertise to the table.
Tal (left) is a serial technology entrepreneur with a wealth of experience in scaling complex software systems who built an ad network that served up to 1 billion impressions a day.
This unique merging of minds led to the creation of LiquidApps and the DAPP Network.
Tal and Beni work with a multidisciplinary team which includes all-star engineers, operations managers, and content creators, many of whom have founded their own EOSIO projects in the past. This team includes, among others:
·Nathan Rempel, previously from Karma/GenerEOS
·Nat Prudhomme, a well-known EOSIO mentor
·David Benchimol, previously from Bancor, experienced in developing on EOSIO and Ethereum
·Zack Gall, the host of Everything EOS – the longest-running EOSIO podcast
What other projects have you collaborated on?
We collaborate with others across three primary domains:
Block Producers(BPs)/DAPP Service Providers(DSPs): Many of the DAPP Service Providers (DSPs) on the DAPP Network are Block Producers (BPs) on one or more EOSIO-based chains. Some of the DSPs on the DAPP Network include EOS Nation, Blockstart, Cafe Block, EOS USA, EOS Rio, Malta Block and DAPP Solutions.
EOSIO-based Chains: The DAPP Network is blockchain agnostic, and as such, we work with a number of EOSIO-based chains to integrate DAPP Network services natively on their networks. Currently, the DAPP Network is live and running on both Wax and Telos, in addition to the EOS public network.
dApps and Services: These are projects, such as Equilibrium, Chintai, and DAPP accounts, that harness DAPP Network services to power their dApps.
Where do you see LiquidApps in the future?
We have said openly from the start that we believe that tribalism within the blockchain industry is counterproductive. We are actively engaged in breaking down the walls between chains by making it as seamless as possible to collaborate.
We believe the future is truly multi-chain, and have set out to provide developers with access to scaling services and trustless functionality regardless of whether they want to use the EOS public network, a different EOSIO blockchain network (WAX, Telos, etc), Ethereum, Tezos or any other smart contract chain. In that sense, we aim to be the cross-chain solution for EOSIO and other blockchains, enabling each to scale in its own unique way.
In one sentence, how do you want readers to remember LiquidApps and the DAPP Network?
The DAPP Network provides the building blocks for scalable decentralized applications – wherever they may live. Or just The Sultans of Scale in short.
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