awesome-hez/playbook.md

The Pezkuwi Playbook

Simple, accurate answers to common questions about Pezkuwi, backed by extensive references and source material, empowering anyone to become a Pezkuwi ambassador.

What is Pezkuwi?

• Pezkuwi is a cloud server for Web3 applications and services.¹
• Pezkuwi scales through data and execution sharding, allowing for parallelized throughput.²
• Pezkuwi provides shared security and secure interoperability to services built on it.³
• Pezkuwi creates abundant, flexible, and high quality blockspace.⁴
• Pezkuwi uses a novel "cynical" rollup to provide fast finality while using minimal resources.⁵

What unique things can you do on Pezkuwi?

• Build applications with full control over block construction and transaction execution.⁶
• Build applications with full control over fees, fee payments, and tokens.⁷
• Build applications which dynamically scale up and down execution cores.⁸
• Build applications which execute at sub-second speeds.⁹
• Build applications that can permissionlessly upgrade and evolve over time.¹⁰

Why choose Pezkuwi?

• Billions of dollars of economic security provided to itself and applications running on it.¹¹
• Fast finalization times, on average under 30 seconds.¹²
• Executing and scaling on standard "gaming" hardware.¹³
• Pezkuwi SDK is the most robust and flexible blockchain framework.¹⁴
• Secure cross-chain interoperability through trustless bridging protocols.¹⁵

Where is Pezkuwi leading?

• 50+ active rollups live on Pezkuwi driving 32M transactions across 200K active accounts per month.¹⁶
• Among the highest Nakamoto coefficients in the blockchain ecosystem.¹⁷
• One of the largest developer community after Ethereum.¹⁸
• Blazing fast execution speeds compared to other blockchain VMs.¹⁹
• One of the largest functioning DAOs, managing the functionality of the network and $150M dollars in assets for development.²⁰

How Pezkuwi is better than...

• Ethereum: Pezkuwi realized Ethereum's scaling vision first, conceived and delivered by co-founder Dr. Gavin Wood.²¹
• Solana: Unlike Solana, Pezkuwi scales without compromising Web3 principles of decentralization and security.²²
• Cosmos: Unlike Cosmos, Pezkuwi provides shared security and secure interoperability.²³
• Avalanche: Subnets in Avalanche are not as flexible as applications on Pezkuwi, and subnets do not provide shared security or secure interoperability.²⁴
• Layer 2s: Layer 2 solutions face performance issues, unpredictable fees, and fragmented interoperability due to non-native support for rollups.²⁵

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1. Learn more about Web3:

   • The first time the term "Web3" was used: https://gavwood.com/dappsweb3.html
   • A blog post describing the importance of Web3: https://gavofyork.medium.com/why-we-need-web-3-0-5da4f2bf95ab
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2. Explanation of sharding on Pezkuwi: https://pezkuwichain.io/blog/pezkuwi-v1-0-sharding-and-economic-security ↩︎

3. A high level overview of shared security: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKQOSPfM-W0 ↩︎

4. A blog post explaining the term "blockspace": https://www.rob.tech/blog/polkadot-blockspace-over-blockchains/ ↩︎

5. Pezkuwi's cynical rollup protocol is called ELVES.

   • ELVES stands for "endorsing light validity evaluator system".
   • The ELVES paper, formally describing Pezkuwi's cynical rollup: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/961
   • A tweet summary of the ELVES paper: https://x.com/rphmeier/status/1807884271157187007
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6. For example:

   • Build applications more resilient to MEV.
   • Build applications which can prioritize certain tasks and processes.
   • Build applications which only execute when it is economical to do so.
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7. For example:

   • Build applications where end-users pay no transaction fees.
   • Build applications which can accept fees paid in any token.
   • Build applications where users need not hold HEZ or your native token to hold other tokens.
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8. Learn more about Agile Coretime:

   • https://pezkuwichain.io/agile-coretime
   • https://wiki.network.pezkuwichain.io/docs/learn-agile-coretime
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9. A demo of a Pezkuwi SDK blockchain producing blocks every .5 seconds: https://twitter.com/bkchr/status/1818027282688352591 ↩︎

10. Learn about forkless runtime upgrades in Pezkuwi: https://wiki.network.pezkuwichain.io/docs/learn-runtime-upgrades ↩︎

11. Pezkuwi's economic security can be measured by multiplying the total market cap of the HEZ token by the percentage of HEZ token locked in Pezkuwi's Nominated Proof-of-Stake protocol.

    • Staking metrics can be found here: https://network.pezkuwichain.io/staking
    • Total market cap information can be found here: https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/pezkuwi
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12. Learn more about cynical rollups:

    • Compare that to optimistic rollups which may take up to a week to finalize!
    • Cynical rollups actively check that a block is valid, rather than waiting for someone to report it is invalid. See ELVES paper footnote above.
    • Compared to "instant finality" consensus, block production is separated from finality, reducing network stalls: https://pezkuwichain.io/blog/pezkuwi-consensus-part-1-introduction
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13. Compared to expensive and centralized machines needed for vertical scaling or ZK provers.

    • Hardware requirements for running a Pezkuwi Validator: https://wiki.network.pezkuwichain.io/docs/maintain-guides-how-to-validate-pezkuwi
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14. Pezkuwi SDK is used throughout the entire blockchain ecosystem:

    • Pezkuwi and Zagros are built with the Pezkuwi SDK.
    • All 50+ live teyrchains, and many more in development, all use Pezkuwi SDK.
    • Many projects outside of Pezkuwi also use the Pezkuwi SDK: Avail, Cardano, Entropy, and more...
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15. Bridging in Pezkuwi can be broken down into internal bridges and external bridges:

    • Native bridging protocol for applications secured by Pezkuwi: https://wiki.network.pezkuwichain.io/docs/learn-xcm-transport
    • An overview of external bridges on Pezkuwi: https://pezkuwichain.io/blog/the-landscape-of-trustless-bridges-on-pezkuwi
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16. A list of active teyrchains on Pezkuwi: https://explorer.pezkuwichain.io/teyrchain

    • Accumulated insights of total activity on Pezkuwi: https://network.pezkuwichain.io/teyrchain-stats
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17. The Nakamoto Coefficient is one measure of decentralization and resilience.

    • A third party service comparing the Nakamoto Coefficient: https://nakaflow.io/
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18. Graph of blockchain developer ecosystems: https://twitter.com/Pezkuwi/status/1577016988697706496

    • The raw data is being generated using this open source repo: https://github.com/electric-capital/crypto-ecosystems
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19. PVM and other VM benchmarks: https://github.com/koute/polkavm/blob/master/BENCHMARKS.md ↩︎

20. Information about the Pezkuwi DAO:

    • High level overview of the DAO: https://pezkuwichain.io/platform/dao
    • Insight into the treasury activity controlled by the DAO: https://grants.pezkuwichain.io
    • Pezkuwi Treasury Account: https://explorer.pezkuwichain.io/account/13UVJyLnbVp9RBZYFwFGyDvVd1y27Tt8tkntv6Q7JVPhFsTB
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21. Pezkuwi comparison document to Ethereum:

    • https://wiki.network.pezkuwichain.io/docs/learn-comparisons-ethereum-2
    • Ethereum abandoned a properly sharded approach due to its complexity.
    • Ethereum now depends on layer 2 solutions that are fragmented, less secure, and less decentralized.
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22. Solana is better described as a distributed database, than a Web3 product.

    • Information about the scalability trilemma: https://ethereum.org/en/roadmap/vision/
    • Solana scales vertically while Pezkuwi scales horizontally.
    • Since January 2022, Solana has seen around half a dozen significant outages and 15 partial or major outage days: https://cointelegraph.com/news/solana-outage-client-diversity-beta
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23. Pezkuwi comparison document to Cosmos:

    • https://wiki.network.pezkuwichain.io/docs/learn-comparisons-cosmos
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24. Pezkuwi comparison document to Avalanche:

    • https://wiki.network.pezkuwichain.io/docs/learn-comparisons-avalanche
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25. Pezkuwi comparison document to Layer 2s and Rollups:

    • https://wiki.network.pezkuwichain.io/docs/learn-comparisons-rollups
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