Original title: A Deeper Look at a New Document Club Policy: Hardness

Source: Etherdorf Foundation

Original language: Deep tide TechFlow

Deep tide guides:The ETA Foundation recently published three agreed clusters of priorities: amplification, user experience and Hardness. What's the third

In short, Hardness is an agreement-level commitment to the core attributes of the Taifung, including resistance to censorship, privacy, security and licensing。

This paper, written by three Foundation members in charge of the Hardness direction, provides a detailed account of the specific work content and priorities in this direction. The text reads as follows:

What's a Hardness

The ETA Foundation recently published a blog outlining the priorities of three protocol clusters:Scaling, user experience (UX) and Hardness。

They each address the different needs of the Ether Workshop for long-term success. The expansion ensures that the network can carry demand at the global level, that user experience ensures that people actually use it, and that Hardness ensures that the ETA grows without losing the core attributes that make it worthwhile。

Hardness refers to the ability of a system to remain reliable in the future。Hardness is a commitment at the level of agreement, with the goal of preserving the core guarantees of the ETA: open source, censorship, privacy, security, licensing and minimization of trust。

These principles have existed from the very beginning of the Ethera。

It exists to provide a neutral infrastructure for those who really need it, even if it means that it is harder, slower and less convenient. In practice, this means ensuring that the Ether Workshop remains operational when the centralized system fails。

Who needs these? Users of targeted countries, journalists protecting their sources, organizations requiring neutral settlement infrastructure, institutions wishing to reduce the risk to their counterparts。

Why focus on Hardness now

The Ether Workshop is advancing a major upgrading in throughput and availability. But each improvement can be achieved by taking shortcuts, such as centralizing infrastructure or introducing credible intermediaries。

Hardness exists to make sure that the Etheraf responds to the demands of the network while not departing from its values。

Today, individuals and institutions rely on these assurances of the Ether Workshop not as ideals but as necessities. This makes Hardness an increasingly critical focus area。

What does Hardness look like in practice

Within the Etherdorf Foundation, Hardness is driven by three people, each focusing on:

• Thomas Thiery:Anti-censorship without permission, focus protocol level

• Fredrik Svantes:Security, focusing on privacy and minimization of trust

• Parithosh Jayanthi:Infrastructure, upgrading and resilience of sensitive parts of the ETA

Hardness cuts across many fields:

In addition to technology development, part of the Hardness orientation is to help more people understand and value these core attributes. The team will also work with ZK, privacy, outreach, user experience and security-related work (e.g., the Trillion Dollar Security, with a greater focus on wallets and applications) to ensure that these improvements do not undermine security or decentrize while accelerating development。

Specific efforts include:

Network resilience:Improve tools, testing and fuzzy testing to detect gaps at an early stage to ensure rapid recovery of the network in case of failure。

User protection:Reduce preventable financial losses from fishing and malicious authorization。

Privacy:PROMOTE PRIVATE TRANSFERS AND ANONYMOUS BROADCASTS AT THE PROTOCOL LEVEL SO THAT USERS CAN HAVE STRONG PRIVACY GUARANTEES WITHOUT LEAVING L1。

Maintaining neutrality:Elimination of single-point failure at the edge of the network to ensure its neutrality and resilience in the face of selective interference。

Long-term preparation:Post-quantic cryptography is not an immediate threat at this time, but it is an inevitable threat that must be prepared in advance。

Return and recovery model:As throughput increases, the agreement must have the capacity to slow and stabilize in the event of an anomaly, allowing the network to repair itself rather than collapse。

Event response ready:Develop a shared public emergency manual to enable ecosystems to respond quickly and transparently in extreme situations。

Measuring reality:The establishment of indicators to measure the current level of resistance of ecosystems, how many users are able to trade privately, and where the confidence assumption goes quietly。

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