Multicoin:Solana上的多签标准,我们为何会对Squads Labs进行多轮投资?

PanewsPublished on 2023-10-17Last updated on 2023-10-17

Abstract

我们首次投资 Squads 是在 2021 年底,从那时起,他们已成长为 Solana 生态系统的中坚力量,我们认为,这是 Solana 上面向机构交易者、加密货币消费者以及构建者的最佳多重签名解决方案。

原文标题:Build With Squads
原文作者:Vishal Kankani,Multicoin Capital
原文编译:Kaori,BlockBeats
今天,我们自豪地宣布投资 Squads Labs,这是 Squads 协议的核心贡献者,也是 Solana 上领先的多重签名解决方案。他们最近的 570 万美元融资使得 Squads 迄今为止的总融资额达到了 1250 万美元。
我们首次投资 Squads 是在 2021 年底,从那时起,他们已成长为 Solana 生态系统的中坚力量,我们认为,这是 Solana 上面向机构交易者、加密货币消费者以及构建者的最佳多重签名解决方案。
金融保管的演变
无论技术如何发展,对保管的需求始终如一。自 17 世纪金匠银行家时代以来,企业一直严重依赖银行来保管其资产;然而,正如最近硅谷银行崩溃所证明的那样,即使经过了几个世纪的演变,银行仍然充满固有的破产风险。
除了简单的保管之外,华尔街还依赖于一个复杂的清算和结算层网络。直到最近,这个过程还是一个实际的事务,在 20 世纪 60 年代华尔街的文书危机达到高潮。为了应对这场危机,创建了一些后来演变成 DTCC 的实体,它将证券数字化,并成为所有清算和结算服务的中心枢纽。然而,尽管电子交易将执行时间缩短到几秒钟,结算仍然以天来衡量。
在 2008 年全球金融危机之后,保管业发生了变革。监管审查导致了主要托管银行的整合(本来就是寡头垄断)。截至 2022 年 6 月底,四大托管银行的托管资产总额为 136.6 万亿美元。现代托管银行提供的服务不仅仅是简单的保管;它们提供基金管理、证券借贷服务等,经常产生内部利益冲突。资产的集中以及利益冲突的出现,带来了新的风险形式。一个实际的例子是世界前两大托管银行 BNY Mellon 和 State Street 的隐性标价争议。
区块链代表了下一代进化——它是数字化和凭证工具的最佳结合。它们以原生方式保管数字资产,实现即时全球支付结算,允许实时交易结算,并大大降低对手方风险。此外,智能合约还有可能不仅简化后台操作,而且根据多项研究结果,为金融行业节省数十亿美元。因此,我们相信未来现实世界的资产将被代币化。我们已经看到这方面的趋势——已有超过 10 亿美元的名义私人信贷和美国国债在链上流通。
然而,作为自己的托管人很困难,且容易造成单点故障。为解决这个问题,托管必须在组织内部分散,并允许多方以主权但可编程的方式行使权力。因此,我们设想的托管演变的最终状态是一个未来,组织可以通过多重签名钱包存储和管理他们的资产。
Squads:Solana 多签标准
随着加密货币的成熟,机构投资者和互联网原生组织需要一种管理资产的方式。这就是多签钱包(又称多重签名)的作用所在。与仅需要一个参与方签名交易的简单加密货币钱包不同,多签钱包需要多个参与方签名交易。
Squads 于 2022 年 2 月作为 Solana 生态系统中首批多签钱包之一推出。自那时起,Solana 上的投资者和开发者迅速将其视为通用标准。
如今,超过 100 个团队(包括 Helium、Hivemapper、Jito、Drift、Marginfi、Backpack、Jupiter、Pyth、Tensor 等知名团队)依赖 Squads(v3)来协调团队和财务资产(撰写本文时价值约为 5 亿美元)。Squads(v3)代码库在市场上经受了 13 个月的严格测试,经历了 4 次独立审计,最重要的是,已经过正式验证。
传统企业已经完善了访问控制,使特定员工能够在各种情境下处理资金转移。为了实现有意义的规模,互联网原生组织也需要类似的控制。
在 Squads 协议之上,Squads 构建了一个功能强大、功能丰富的平台,为团队提供了一整套的项目管理工具,包括团队权限。开发人员可以将 Squads 用作其程序升级权限,消除关键人风险并降低恶意代码进入生产的风险。它还为他们提供了财务管理控制功能,方便存储和分发资助、管理筹款资产、收入流、流动性挖矿奖励等。
What’s Coming Next?
本周早些时候,Squads 推出了对 Squads 平台的重大升级,并推出了一些新产品,使其功能比以前更强大。
SquadsX
除了桌面和移动界面外,Squads 现在还拥有自己的网络扩展钱包——SquadsX。它是 Solana 的第一个多签浏览器扩展钱包。
SquadsX 专为团队和机构设计,使团队能够首次与去中心化应用和 DeFi 互动,同时仍提供企业级安全。SquadsX 解决了多签(与 DeFi 的可用性不足)的最大问题,并启用了新的群组管理活动,如流动性供应、借贷、借款和链上交易,所有这些都直接来自 Squads 多签。
Squads(v4)
除了 SquadsX,Squads 还发布了对协议的重大升级,「Squads v4」。Squads(v4)已通过 Neodyme、OtterSec 和 Trail of Bits 的审计,OtterSec 和 Certora 的正式验证目前正在进行中。Squads 预计到 2023 年 11 月底,经过严格审计的 Squads(v4)代码库将被设置为不可更改。Squads(v4)拥有一些新的杀手级企业功能,我们以下面几个亮点为例:
1、时间锁:Squads(v4)在程序升级批准和链上执行之间引入了时间间隔。时间锁提高了在新代码上线前发现错误的几率。
2、角色与权限:Squads(v4)在多个地址上提供了增强的会计和支出能力。权限包括消费限额和在未达到阈值的情况下启用提款。
3、费用中继:Squads(v4)还引入了一个「费用中继」,使多签钱包能够支付所有与 Squads 相关的燃气费。一旦激活,战队成员可以在零 SOL 余额的情况下签署交易,简化操作并允许去中心化应用承担燃气费用。
4、批量支付:大多数以加密为本的初创公司都有几名员工和承包商,就像传统组织一样。Squads(v4)引入了执行批量支付的能力。这是一个非常受欢迎的功能。
5、支持地址查找表(ALTs):每个 Solana 交易都需要列出作为交易一部分的每个互动地址。在引入 ALTs 之前,每笔交易的地址上限实际上是 32 个。在 Squads(v4)中,引入 ALTs 后,每笔交易的地址数量已增加到 256 个,允许用户进行更复杂的交易。
通过 SquadsX 和 Squads(v4),Squads 团队已经构建了区块链原生托管的基础设施,现在他们正在基于这些基础设施构建新的令人兴奋的产品,并带来有吸引力的收入线。
运营企业涉及到财务管理、薪酬、人力资源和工程方面的操作。在加密领域,运营还包括授权许可、交易限额、链上投票、代码权威、延时实施等等。普通人并不与协议进行交互,现实情况是,只有少数加密领域的人们直接参与这些协议。这意味着简化企业运营市场有着巨大的潜力。我们相信 Squads 以一种安全可靠的方式为加密领域敞开大门,并提供了当今市场上一些最具吸引力的企业级和机构级产品。
在过去的 18 个月里,尽管是熊市,Squads 团队仍表现出强烈的专注和执行力。我们很高兴能够支持 Squads,帮助引领互联网原生基础设施的新时代,实现自主托管和链上资本协调。

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