CUDOS：Layer2预言机如何在群雄逐鹿中脱颖而出

2021年1月18日下午6点，Cudos做客Uniswap中文社区，由BlockArk联合创始人船长主持，进行“CUDOS：Layer2预言机，如何在群雄逐鹿中脱颖而出”的主题AMA活动。本次直播活动由区块方舟BlockArk支持，链闻ChainNews、星球日报Odaily、区块律动BlockBeats、加密阁媒体支持，直播分享内容整理如下：

船长：大家好啊，欢迎参加今天由BlockArk在Uniswap中文社区举办的AMA，我是今天的主持人Warren船长，BlockArk联合创始人。同时感谢星球日报、链闻、区块律动、加密阁对本次活动的支持。

在活动开始前容我先简单介绍下BlockArk。BlockArk是一家加密资产行业的投资银行与市场营销机构，旗下管理专注加密货币一二级基金ArkStream Capital。BlockArk集投资、品牌、市场增长、战略咨询为一体，致力于推动Web3.0的独角兽们成长。

今天AMA的主题是“CUDOS：Layer2预言机如何在群雄逐鹿中脱颖而出”，嘉宾是Pete Hill，Directors at Cudo and VP of Sales 。

今天的AMA活动分为两个阶段，第一个阶段为主题问答，我会提出8个提前准备好的问题，以一问一答的形式进行。8个问题结束后，会进入第二个阶段，自由问答。群友可以对嘉宾自由提问，嘉宾自由选择其中3-5个问题进行回答。被选中问题的小伙伴，将会获得 66 RMB的红包奖励。

在各个群的小伙伴都可以直接进行提问，我们会转发到直播群。

那我们的AMA现在开始。Let's start!

船长：Hi Pete, can you give us an introduction about Cudos? Should we classify Cudo as an oracle, or a Layer2 solution?

你好Pete，先给我们一句话介绍下Cudos吧。我们应该把CUDO归类为预言机，还是Layer2的解决方案？

Pete：CUDOS is a cross chain decentralized compute network designed to power Web 3.0.? It enables anyone to sell their computing or consume decentralised computing resources either via blockchain/smart contract or via more traditional cloud computing API's.

CUDOS是为Web 3.0提供跨链支持的去中心化计算网络。它让任何人都可以通过区块链的智能合约或更传统的云计算API来出售去中心化计算资源。

In essence, what this means is CUDOS is one of the few networks which can power other blockchains and scale to the demands of cloud computing required today.

从本质上讲，CUDOS是为其他区块链提供动力并能够适应当今云计算需求的网络。

CUDOS is therefore a layer 2 solution providing compute, so compute oracles are a use case of this.

因此，CUDOS是提供计算的layer 2解决方案，比如说计算机预言机就属于此用例。

Our CEO previously built C4L which was one of the UK's largest cloud and data centre providers.? We ended up providing 1% of the UK's infrastructure and had a global business.? We built CUDOS to make the same in software using blockchain to use the worlds spare computing capacity.

我的背景是我以前建造过C4L，它是英国最大的云计算和数据中心提供商之一。我们提供了英国1％的云计算基础设施，并且开展了全球业务。我们构建的CUDOS可以使用区块链来利用世界上所有的备用计算能力。

船长：Ok, There are many Layer2 solutions, such as Rollup (recently promoted by Vitalik), state channel and Plasma, etc. What does Cudo belong to? What are the advantages and disadvantages of CUDO compared to these more familiar solutions ?

好的，目前Layer2的解决方案众多，有Vitalik最近力推的Rollup，也有状态通道、Plasma等。CUDO属于哪类？相比于这些较为大家熟悉的解决方案，CUDU有何优劣？

Pete：There are a number of great market leaders in the space.? These include the likes of Near Protocol, Oasis Protocol, Matic Network.? The vast majority have focused purely on smart contracts.

这个领域有许多伟大的市场领导者。这些包括Near Protocol，Oasis Protocol，Matic Network。它们大多数人只专注于智能合约。

You of course have Ethereum and the upcoming Ethereum 2 as well and the ones that you mention (Rollup etc)

当然还有以太坊和即将推出的以太坊2.0以及您提到的以太坊（Rollup等）

CUDOS differs as whilst we will provide multi-chain integration for different blockchain developer ecosystems access to scalable computation, we can also serve the traditional cloud computing consumer with our underlying Cudo network which already has over 30,000 active supply nodes running.CUDOS can therefore also act as a decentralised bridge between onchain and offchain computing.

CUDOS的不同之处在于，尽管我们将为不同的区块链开发者生态系统提供可扩展计算的多链集成，但也可以通过我们的基础Cudo网络为传统的云计算消费者提供服务，该网络已经运行了30,000多个活动节点。因此，CUDOS还可以充当链上和链下计算之间的去中心化桥梁。

船长：In this way, there are many users participating in the construction of nodes in CUDOS.

这样就有很多用户参与了CUDOS节点的构建。

Pete：Yes, there will be 100 validator nodes in total.

是的，总共有100个验证节点。

船长：The third question. We see that CVN is a core component (function) of CUDO, can you tell us more about it?What role does it play in the overall network?

第三个问题，我们看到CVN是CUDO的一个核心组件（功能），能否为我们详细介绍下？在整个网络中它发挥了什么样的作用？

Pete：Our vision is to make better use of the World’s computing power. To make it more accessible to a wider audience and to enable any business or individual to earn from their hardware. Cudo was born out of this vision.. An Uber of cloud computing.

我们的愿景是更好地利用世界的计算能力。Cudo就是为了使受众更容易使用它，使任何企业或个人都能从其中获利这种愿景而诞生的。Cudo就是云计算的Uber。

We therefore spent the first 3 years developing an offchain distributed supply network with our miner management platform. So that was phase 1 and we have grown that network to over 150,000 users with huge partners like AMD in pilot phase to take those numbers to over 1 million this year.

因此，我们在头3年中使用矿工管理平台开发了脱链分布式供应网络。第1阶段我们就已经与AMD等合作伙伴一起将该网络扩展到了15万用户，而在试验阶段就已超过100万。

Phase 2, which we’re in now is building the demand side. Blockchain is a huge vertical for us and so to serve this rapidly growing market, we created a decentralised layer called CUDOS. The testnet, going live in March/April will provide a validator network on the Tendermint protocol and run by 100 independent node operators. These validator nodes will both execute tasks and distribute tasks where necessary to the underlying Cudo supply network.

现在第2阶段正在构建需求方。区块链对我们来说是一个巨大的垂直市场，因此为了服务于这个快速增长的市场，我们创建了一个称为CUDOS的去中心化层。测试网将于3月/ 4月投入使用，它将提供一个基于Tendermint协议的验证器网络，并由100个独立的节点运营商运行。这些验证器节点将执行任务，在必要时将任务分配给基础Cudo供应网络。

It is therefore a single platform, CUDOS is the decentralised layer 2, Cudo is the offchain layer 3.

因此，它是一个独立的平台，CUDOS是去中心化layer 2，Cudo是脱链layer3。

船长：Tendermint of Cosmos, right?

Tendermint是基于Cosmos的对吧？

Pete：A core contributor to their network yes : )，We are using it as the consensus protocol.

是的，他们网络的核心贡献者，我们将它作为共识协议。

船长：The fourth question is about the team. Cudo was founded in 2017, but it's only recently that we've noticed it. On the other hand, the massive adoption of the Ethereum Oracle started with the Defi outbreak in 2020.

Tell us a little bit about what Cudu's team has done and changed in those three years?When did you set up the final roadmap and can you tell us a little bit about your current team?

第四个问题是关于团队的。CUDO创立于2017年，但我们是最近才关注到他，另一方面，以太坊上预言机的大规模应用也是从2020年DeFi的爆发开始的。能否为我们讲讲，这三年来，CUDU团队都做了哪些工作，又做出了哪些改变？是什么时候才确定了最终我们看到的这条发展路线？能否为我们介绍下你们现在的团队？

Pete：We have very much been keeping under the radar for a number of years now as we decided to take a market first approach and secure a supply base & find market/product fit, before launching the demand side services and token.

多年来，我们一直在关注radar，因为我们决定在推出需求方服务和代币之前采取市场第一的方法,确保供应并找到市场上契合的产品。

Funded by the previous sale of our last business, we were in a fortunate position to be able to do this and from our experience, the only way to build a platform like ours, is to secure the supply first. That’s why our first use case was mining as it provided our suppliers with a 24/7 customer.

由上一次业务的销售提供资金，我们很幸运能够做到这一点，根据我们的经验，构建像我们这样的平台的唯一方法是首先确保供应。这就是为什么我们的第一个案例是采矿，因为它保证了我们每一个供应商能为客户提供7*24h的服务。

So the advantage of this approach is that we have made our pivots, we have found out what works and doesn’t and have had time before market launch to really get to know our market and iron out those earlier design/development kinks.

因此，这种方法的优势在于，我们立足了枢纽，找到了行之有效的方法，并在上市之前有时间真正了解我们的市场并消除了较早的设计和开发难题。

We’re an internal team of 30 now with a further 5-10 external contractors for blockchain & smart contract development and 10+ world class advisors including the former President of Sony Entertainment Media (Playstation), Chris Deering and the current Director of Blockchain for AMD, Joerg Roskowetz. Maggie Fang, who was an early investor in Uber and Alibaba and sees Cudo a blend of both of those business models and Sean Li, founder of Kitematic, Magic and one of the early Docker team.

我们是一个由30人组成的内部团队，目前还有5-10个外部承包商用于区块链和智能合约开发，以及10多个世界一流的顾问，其中包括Sony Entertainment Media（Playstation）的前总裁，Chris Deering和现任Blockchain的现任总监。 AMD，Joerg Roskowetz。 Maggie Fang是Uber和阿里巴巴的早期投资者，他认为Cudo将这两种商业模式与Kitematic，Magic的创始人，早期Docker团队之一的Sean Li。

Our internal team have backgrounds in building and scaling and SaaS with our CRO Andrew Walker founding Clicktools, a business acquired by SurveyMonkey and two of our core developers Pete Willis and Richard Poole building software for Vodafone.

我们的内部团队具有构建和扩展以及SaaS的背景，我们的CRO Andrew Walker成立了Clicktools，这是被SurveyMonkey收购的业务以及我们的两名核心开发人员Pete Willis和Richard Poole为Vodafone构建的软件。

Our CTO, Andrew Sturmey, VP of Sales and Head of Project Management all joined Cudo from my last business and offer vast experience in scaling cloud infrastructure platforms and customer bases.

我们的首席技术官，销售副总裁兼项目管理负责人Andrew Sturmey都是从我上一份业务开始加入Cudo的，在扩展云基础架构平台和客户群方面提供了丰富的经验。

Our VP of Partnerships has over 15 years experience in securing big brand and high value partnerships including AMD. All in all, we have 14 internal developers across backend, frontend, design, hardware optimisation and networking, with the rest of the internal team including marketeers, operations led by our CEO Lee Woodham with 25 years experience in scaling financial services and tech companies, finance and business development.

我们的合作伙伴关系副总裁在确保包括AMD在内的大品牌和高价值合作伙伴方面拥有超过15年的经验。总而言之，我们在后端，前端，设计，硬件优化和网络方面拥有14位内部开发人员，其余内部团队包括市场营销人员，由我们的首席执行官Lee Woodham领导的运营部门，在扩展金融服务和科技公司方面拥有25年的金融和业务发展经验。

船长：Haha, very detailed introduction. Thank you. It seems that Cudos has a mature and strong team.

哈哈哈很详细的介绍。非常感谢。看来CUDOS有一个成熟且强大的团队。

Pete：Thank you, I was always enjoy talking about the team as they are so talented and a great bunch to work with

谢谢，我一直很乐意介绍我们团队，因为他们很有才华，和他们一起工作氛围也很好。

船长：The fifth problem is related to technology. Cudo defines his computing platform as Layer3, and while other projects are talking about Ethereum's Layer2, Cudo has taken it one step further. How are the solutions different from those of other blockchain projects focused on decentralized cloud computing, such as Akash and Cudo? What changes will it bring to the Ethereum ecosystem?

第五个问题，是技术相关的。CUDO把其计算平台定义为Layer3，在别的项目都在探讨以太坊的Layer2时CUDO已经更上一层楼了。与其他专注于去中心化云计算的区块链项目，比如Akash，CUDO的解决方案有何异同？它又将为以太坊生态带来什么样的改变？

Pete：CUDOS is the decentralised layer 2, Cudo is the offchain layer 3. Both are part of the same platform. This means we can serve the blockchain vertical and the traditional cloud verticals such as AI, video rendering, simulations, etc. Competitors are unable to do this.

CUDOS是layer2，Cudo是脱链的layer3。两者都是同一平台的一部分。这意味着我们可以为区块链垂直领域和传统的云垂直领域（如AI，视频渲染，模拟等）提供服务，而竞争对手则无法做到这一点。

As we can see from Gas fees, Ethereum as a layer 1 is struggling with scale. Then we have Algorand, who can provide a much more scalable layer 1 solution, but by design they have had to leave out Turing complete compute to achieve this.

从gas费中可以看出，以太坊作为第1层正在努力应对规模问题。然后我们有了Algorand，他可以提供更具扩展性的第1层解决方案，但是通过设计，他们不得不省去图灵完备的计算来实现这一目标。

Two different ecosystems, two different approaches, but CUDOS is able to plug a gap for both of their ecosystems.

两种不同的生态系统，两种不同的方法，但是CUDOS能够为他们两种生态系统填补空白。

If we want blockchain to gain wider adoption, it is imperative that we w together to build these solutions as right now the use cases cannot extend further than small data workloads like DeFi because of the exorbitant costs of running directly onchain.

如果我们希望区块链得到更广泛的采用，那么我们必须共同努力构建这些解决方案，因为由于直接在链上运行的成本过高，因此用例不能为像DeFi这样的小型数据工作负载进一步扩展。

船长：OK, I finally understand the difference between CUDO and CUDOS[呲牙]

好的，我终于明白cudo和cudos的区别了[呲牙]

船长：As you just mentioned Algorand. We see that CUDO has a very strong ecosystem, with popular blockchain networks like Polkadot, distributed file systems like Filecoin, public chains like AlGORAND, and even PlayStation. Can you tell us a little bit about how you worked with each of these projects or companies?

正如你刚刚提到了Algorand，在CUDO的官方网站我们看到你们的生态非常强大，有Polkadot这样火爆市场的区块链网络，有Filecoin这样的分布式文件系统，有Algorand这样的公链，甚至还有Playstation。能否分别给我们讲讲，与这些项目或企业是怎样合作的？

Pete：A graphic to explain the last question.

一张图解释上一个问题。

Algorand and Ethereum are the two chains that we are initially integrating with to provide layer 2 services. We were awarded and Algorand grant back in November. Polkadot is one of the next chains that we are going to integrate.

Algorand和以太坊是我们最初集成以提供第二层服务的两条链。早在11月，我们就获得了Algorand的资助。 Polkadot是我们将要整合的下一个链条之一。

Filecoin is interesting as CUDOS is to compute what Filecoin is to storage, so this is the perfect collaboration where we will integrate Filecoin's protocol into our tech stack.

Filecoin非常有趣，因为CUDOS可以计算，Filecoin可以存储，因此这是完美的协作，我们可以将Filecoin的协议集成到我们的技术堆栈中。

Then we have the big household names, AMD, Ultra and Playstation. These 3 companies will bring millions of devices to our consumer edge supply network and our tech will provide end gamers with a way to earn credits/vouchers/tokens.

然后就是家喻户晓的名字，AMD，Ultra和Playstation。这三家公司将把数百万种设备带入我们的消费者边缘供应网络，而我们的技术将最终为游戏玩家提供一种赚取积分或者代币的方法。

The goal with these brands is to increase value to the gamers, the big brands mentioned and also further scale our supply for relevant compute workloads that can operate over this type of network. Scientific simulations for example.

游戏玩家将会为品牌增加价值，并进一步扩展此类网络上运行的相关计算工作负载的供应。例如科学模拟。

船长：The Next question. How to become a verifier and participate in the construction of the whole verifier node? What are the incentives for being a node?

下一个问题，如何成为验证人，参与到整个验证者节点的搭建中？作为节点有什么样的激励？

Pete：We will be launching the CUDOS validator network testnet in March/April. 2m CUDOS is the minimum stake and validators will be able to earn from executing workloads, plus staking rewards of up to 30% and also delegated staking from other token holders.

我们将在三月/四月启动CUDOS验证器网络testnet。 200万CUDOS是最低的质押数量，验证者将能够从执行工作负载中赚取收益，再加上高达30％的质押奖励，还可以从质押在还可以获得其他的持有者的代币。

We have a pre-staking service with our exchange partners BitMax going live this week. So token holders will be able to stake their tokens for rewards even before our validaotr network goes live!

我们有一个预质押服务与我们的合作伙伴BitMax在本周上线。所以代币持有者将能够在我们的validaotr网络上线之前将他们的代币用于奖励！

Some more detail for our PoS validator network, targeted for March/April this year

https://medium.com/cudos/the-cudos-token-rewards-bonuses-scheme-bf9f417bcb5f

关于PoS验证网络的更多细节请点击链接查看，我们的目标是在今年3月/ 4月实现：

https://medium.com/cudos/the-cudos-token-rewards-bonuses-scheme-bf9f417bcb5f

船长：The last question is about token economics. Can you tell us something about Cudos' token economics? We have seen in the white paper that the cost of institutional round and private placement is $0.003 and $0.0045 respectively, but we have not seen any information related to public offering. We have seen from BitMax that your initial offering price is 0.006. Where are these tokens issued? Can you give us some details?

最后一个问题，是关于代币经济学的。能否给我们讲讲CUDOS的代币经济学？我们看到白皮书里写到机构轮和私募的成本分别是$0.003和$0.0045 ，但没有看到公募相关的信息，在bitmax上看到你们的初始发行价是0.006，这部分token在哪里发行的呢？能不能给我们讲讲细节？以及初始流通的96M CUDOS来源于哪个部分？

Pete：You can check our token address here

https://etherscan.io/token/0x817bbDbC3e8A1204f3691d14bB44992841e3dB35

您可以在这里查看我们的令牌地址

https://etherscan.io/token/0x817bbDbC3e8A1204f3691d14bB44992841e3dB35

The private buyers are either on 12 month daily vesting or 6 month daily vesting depending on which discount level that bought in at. We did not have a public sale, we launched straight onto BitMax as a primary listing, with Uniswap a few short hours before to create some initial liquidity.

私募是每日释放持续12个月或每日释放持续6个月，具体取决于所购买的折扣级别。我们没有公开发售，我们直接在BitMax上进行了首次发行，并在短短几个小时内与Uniswap一起创建了一些初始流动性。

Because of the vesting, the actual circulating supply available is less than 1% of a 10bn total circulation. We launch staking this week, which will further incentivise holding tokens, designed to keep the available circulation low and this is over a 10 year release schedule.

由于解锁，实际可用的流通供应量不到100亿总流通量的1％。我们将在本周开始质押，这将进一步激励持有代币，目的是将可用流通量保持在较低水平，这是一个超过10年的代币释放周期。

船长：OK, thanks for sharing! Next, let's go to the free question and answer session.

感谢嘉宾的精彩分享，我们第一阶段的主题问答先告一段落，接下来进入自由问答阶段。

群友可以对嘉宾自由提问，嘉宾自由选择其中3-5个问题进行回答。被选中问题的小伙伴，将会获得66元红包奖励。

【自由问答环节】

问：Is there Layer 3 above Layer 2? Which layer is the application layer belong to?3 or 2?

Layer 3是在Layer 2上面吗，应用层是属于哪一层，Layer 3还是Layer 2？

Pete：We class layer 1 as blockchain, layer 2 as decentralised scaling solutions to blockchain, layer 3 as offchain compute. So if there were a layer 4, it would be the distributed software that runs on layer 3.

我们将第1层划分为区块链，第2层划分为区块链的去中心化扩展解决方案，第3层划分为离链计算。因此，如果有第4层，那就是运行在第3层上的分布式软件。

问：You said you have 150,000 users, how can we verify this? You know, few blockchain products can have so many users.

你说你有15万用户，我们怎么验证呢?你知道吗，很少有区块链产品能拥有这么多用户的。

Pete：Yes, this is our supply base, we launched with cryptomining services in 2019 (alpha was Oct 2018). So this side of the ecosystem which is offchain has been scaling since then. You can see our live service - cudominer.com

是的，这是我们的用户来源，我们在2019年推出了加密服务(alpha是2018年10月)。所以从那时起，这个脱链的生态系统就一直在扩大规模。你可以看到我们的直播服务- cudominer.com

问：Are you directly competing with LINK? Now LINK has entered TOP10, will CUDOS get such a prospect?

你们和LINK是直接竞争关系吗？现在LINK已经进入TOP10了，CUDOS以后有这样的前景吗？

Pete：LINK is a data oracle, as are BAND and DIA. We have positioned ourselves as a compute oracle. Data and compute are symbiotic, so we actully see these companies as opportunities to work with rather than against. We are very confident in our ability to scale CUDOS as successfully as these projects have done. We are not fooling ourselves though, we have plenty of hard work to do! : )

LINK是一个数据oracle，正如BAND和DIA一样。我们把自己定位为预言机。数据和计算是共生的，所以我们实际上把这些公司视为合作的机会，而不是对抗的机会。我们很有信心能够像这些项目一样成功地发展CUDOS。我们不是在欺骗自己，我们还有很多艰苦的工作要做! :)

问：Layer 2 is in the early stages, can it be understood that Cudos is a supplier of existing Layer 2 applications?

Layer 2现在属于初期阶段，是否可以理解为CUDOS是现有layer 2应用的供给商？

Pete：We're building them as we speak. The testnet is targeted for March/April this year.

我们现在正在建造。测试网的目标是今年3月/ 4月。

问：So, your consensus mechanism is POS? What about the profit of node now?

所以，你的共识机制是POS?现在节点的利润呢?

Pete：Depends on the underlying machine spec. A decent GPU on our network at present is earning anywhere up to $200/month for that single GPU and that is just mining. Compute workloads will earn up to 3x more and this is why we are now focusing on the phase 2 part of our vision - Adding the tools including the validator network to be able to support other computing tasks

取决于底层机器的规格。目前在我们的网络上，一个像样的GPU每个月可以挣200美元，这只是矿机的收益。如果计算工作负载的话，将获得3倍以上的收益，这就是为什么我们现在将重点放在我们愿景的第二阶段——添加包括validator网络在内的工具，以支持其他计算任务。

Pete：We have come to the hour, thank you so much for having me here today!

时间到了，非常感谢你们今天邀请我来这里!

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