Intro
The aim of this research task/grant is to attract talented research beginners and anyone who wants to get familiar with crypto research to carry out research tasks for the Web3 Foundation research team and be paid by the Grants Program of the Web3 Foundation. Supervision provided by a Web3 Foundation researcher. The research task is a follows:
Overview and comparison of availability schemes in different blockchains:
Polkadot has a verifiable information dispersal in production for a number of years. We suspect that Polkadot's availability scheme, used in ELVES, is competitive with dedicated availability solutions. We want a comparison with these schemes in terms of bandwidth, time, and other criteria that includes Polkadot and Kusama's production numbers and JAM's target.
Along with production numbers, a qualitative comparison would be useful.
Known schemes that claim DA are as follows
- Celestia
- Espresso's Tiramisu
- Near
- Avail
The comparison should include these systems and identify and include any further schemes.
Application
Applications follow the processes of the Grants Program. That means:
- Please read our FAQs and Terms & Conditions to familiarize yourself with the subtleties of grants, grant applications and the program as a whole.
- Fork our Grants Program repository.
- In the newly created fork, create a copy of the research application template. Make sure you do not modify the template file directly.
- Name the new file after your project: project_name.md.
- Fill out the template with the details of your proposed work. The more information you provide, the faster the review. Most of the information requested (scope, milestones, deliverables, etc.) should have been discussed with the Research Team beforehand.
- Once you're done, create a pull request. The pull request should only contain one new file—the Markdown file you created from the template.
