The focus of today’s news is the introduction of a new blockchain protocol Bluzelle. The startup aims to provide a solution to gamers’ latency and commit the industry to decentralized, P2P caching servers, a new piece of technology that could prove beneficial not only for the competitive gaming industry but other service providers around the globe.
What is Data Caching?
The most common application of data caching is used in game servers. Take for example two people playing together but they’re located in the USA and Europe. To reduce the latency and allow for a smooth experience, the company behind the game establishes servers in locations close to the respective gamers. This allows for a better connection and an overall greater experience. Those two servers then have a prioritized connection which involves a lot of management and complicated engineering. Most common providers used for this goal are Amazon Web Services and Azure.
Alternatively, if both players were connected directly to each other, then the transfer of data between them would be hopping over many different servers around the globe with no prioritizing of traffic whatsoever – not a great experience.
Bluzelle’s Solution to Latency
So, what’s Bluzelle’s method of combating these issues that plague gamers? For starters, it will eliminate the need for complicated setups and expensive hosting. Every user that joins the network will be able to become a server for caching technology, providing hardware power and storage space to the network. This way, players will be able to connect to a cache that’s near them, no matter their location, instead of relying on big data centers that need to specifically be established. Smaller markets like south-eastern Europe or South Africa won’t need to rely on servers located in France for example, they’ll connect to nearby nodes instead in a fast and reliant manner. Co-founder Pavel Bains stated that in terms of efficiency, this technology would offer 20% faster data transfers compared to similarly priced alternatives.
For providing these services, participants in the Bluzelle blockchain will be rewarded with BLZ tokens. For starters, clients who wish to make use of Blu’s services will be able to pay with fiat money, which will automatically be transformed into BLZ tokens of equivalent value. Using this method, whoever wants to benefit from the technology, will not need to be versed in cryptocurrency and trading it, so adoption rates can be high. The max supply will be limited to 500M tokens and the current value of each is roughly 6 cents.
In conclusion, BluZelle is pushing for cost-effective and secure data management and delivery to end users. The architecture of their proprietary system will build upon existing blockchain technology while providing a super consumer experience.