Quarkchain - High Capacity Blockchain

What does Quarkchain project do?

QuarkChain is a blockchain that utilizes sharding to provide a high-capacity peer-to-peer transactional system. It will consist of two main layers – the sharding layer, and the Root layer, which serves to confirm the blocks of the first.

Below are some of the features of QuarkChain:

-50% or more of hashpower will be dedicated to root layer to prevent double spending attacks.
-No lower limit as to the number of nodes required for a shard.
-Supports GPU mining.
-Support cross shard transactions.

QuarkChain achieves better scalability using a two layer structure. The first layer offers elastic sharding, which is a type of database partitioning that separates very large databases into smaller, faster, and easily managed components called data shards. Data shards are a key part of the QuarkChain project.

To further increase adoption and ease of use, QuarkChain will provide support for and integrate the Ethereum Virtual Machine for smart contracts, as it is the most commonly use execution engine. This will allow dApps built on the EVM to have the ability to be deployed directly on the QuarkChain Platform.

QuarkChain is led by Qi Zhou (Founder), an expert in high-performance systems and a former Google employee with 15+ years of development experience. He also holds a PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology. Other listed members of the QuarkChain team include ZhaoGuang Wang (Senior Software Engineer), Ting Du (CMO for China), Anthurine Xiang (CMO), and Kyle Wang (COO).