Polkadot 暴跌 50% 之际,Gavin Wood 决定去做 DJ

比推2024-09-06 tarihinde yayınlandı2024-09-06 tarihinde güncellendi

Gavin Wood 的「多重宇宙」:创始人、科学家、实验者、Now➡DJ Wasabi

原文标题:《Gavin Wood on why Ethereum remains ‘unchanged,’ Polkadot, and moonlighting as a DJ

撰文:Liam Kelly,DL News

编译:Lyric,ChainCatcher

以太坊联合创始人 Gavin Wood 在 Polkadot(波卡)暴跌 50% 之际接受了 DL News 的采访。

在投入巨资进行营销后,Polkadot 正面临着来自用户的强烈反对。

Gavin Wood 谈到了他的另一个身份——作为 DJ 。

今年早些时候,当 Polkadot 的学生们在香港结束了为期五周的开发者训练营后,迎来了派对。在毕业典礼上,DeFi 网络的成员看到一个熟悉的面孔在 DJ 台后面就位 — — Gavin Wood,Polkadot 的联合创始人,也是以太坊的策划者之一。

现年 44 岁的 Gavin Wood 在 DeFi 生态系统建设中扮演了十年的关键角色后,开始重拾他最初的热情——音乐。Wood 告诉 DL News:「如果你看到任何与 DJ Wasabi 有关的文章,那就是我。」

寻找新方向

他此举的背景是,Polkadot 一直在努力寻找突破口。

据员工称,2023 年,构建 Polkadot 网络的 Parity Technologies 公司因资金短缺而裁掉了其 385 名员工中的近三分之一。Polkadot 曾是代币价值排名前十的加密货币项目之一。今年,其 DOT 代币下跌了 50%,而 ETH 上涨了 5%,竞争对手 Cardano 下跌了 45%。而在今年 7 月,Polkadot 遭到了更多的批评,批评者抨击其在今年上半年花费 8700 万美元的决定。其中近一半用于营销活动,包括花费 40 万美元在加密货币网站 CoinMarketCap 上制作动画版 Polkadot 徽标。Parity 前核心开发人员 Seun Lanlege 在 X 上表示:「Polkadot 资金库在错误的营销上浪费了这么多钱,这简直太疯狂了。」

Parity 的一位代表表示,营销费用源于该项目的治理体系。该代表告诉 DL News:「营销计划的支出是社区投票决定的链上财政支出的直接结果。」

随着 Wood 转行做 DJ,DeFi 的许多人可能会怀疑他是否脱离了日常工作。尽管 Wood 是 Parity 的首席设计师,但他否认了这种担忧,并淡化了自己在项目中的角色。他说:「我的职位要低得多。」

「我是一名科学家」

在 8 月份的 Web3 峰会期间,Wood 在柏林的 Funkhaus 接受了 DL News 的采访。在这里,Wood 分享了他对区块链设计和技术的看法。「我想做实验。我是一名研究员,一名科学家,一名学者,好奇心是我在这里的主要驱动力。」他说,「对 Polkadot 来说,最大的问题是,以太坊在某种程度上已经停滞不前。」事实上,Wood 很擅长追求不同寻常的冒险。他准备在今年晚些时候推出一套「个性」系统,将机器生成的类似二维码的图案纹在人们的身上。

Wood 的职业生涯始于计算机科学与音乐的融合。

2005 年,Wood 在约克大学完成了为期五年的博士学位课程,研究计算机如何聆听音乐。他还将机器听到的音乐制作成了视觉图示。他的论文展示了 Dave Brubeck 的经典爵士乐曲《Take Five》在计算机看来会是什么样子。

Wood 也参与过科技项目。他曾担任微软研究员,还在意大利的一所天主教学校教过几何学。他向伦敦的夜总会和酒吧出售照明系统,然后尝试推出一款 Microsoft Word 插件,让律师的繁琐工作实现自动化。不久之后,他遇到了正在开发以太坊的 Vitalik Buterin、Jeffrey Wilcke 和 Charles Hoskinson。对于 Wood 来说,以太坊本质上是他在 2010 年初开发 Word 插件时进行的一个周末项目。

发明以太坊

他用 C++ 编程语言编写了首批以太坊客户端之一,这是一款允许开发人员与区块链交互的软件应用程序。Wood 帮助发明了以太坊的编程语言 Solidity,并合著了《以太坊黄皮书》,这是第一份正式说明以太坊网络的用途和运作方式的文件。他告诉 DL News:「我还带来了更多的设计和工程方面的东西,我想说,这就像一种近乎艺术的天性。」

尽管 Wood 通过共同的创建区块链系统成为了去中心化金融的基石,巩固了他在加密货币领域的地位,但他觉得以太坊缺乏活力。他说:「与 Vitalik 和我 2014 年提出的愿景相比,以太坊协议基本没什么变化。」

2016 年,Wood 自立门户,与 Robert Habermeier 和 Peter Czaban 共同创立了 Polkadot。其理念是创建一个更高效、更实惠的网络来支持 dApp 和智能合约。「对 Polkadot 来说,最大的问题是以太坊在某种程度上已经停滞不前,」他说。「我想继续发展。」该项目在 2017 年通过首次代币发行筹集了 1.44 亿美元 — 这是一种加密货币众筹,人们通过投入真金白银来换取网络的原生代币。它于 2020 年开始正式生产区块。在 2021 年的热潮中,其总价值跃升至 540 亿美元,DOT 成为排名前十的加密货币。

改进「笨重」的跨链

他还推出了区块链来解决以太坊面临的关键瓶颈。即第 2 层区块链(将交易聚合成低成本证明然后发送到以太坊的迷你区块链),现在在以太坊上很常见。

Polkadot 从第一天起就引入了类似的设计,称为 parachains(平行链)。任何选择在 Polkadot 基础上构建并推出自己的平行链的项目都可以轻松地与其他基于 Polkadot 的项目进行交互。对于基于以太坊的第 2 层网络,用户必须与笨重的跨链桥进行交互才能在网络之间转移资金。

Wood 表示,Polkadot 更接近以太坊的早期愿景。「早在所有领域都还是一片空白的时候,二层网络就已经不是梦想了。以太坊核心开发人员五年前推动的梦想,看起来有点像 Polkadot。」

「我是一个实验者」

今年 4 月,他通过一个名为 JAM(Join-Accumalate Machine)的 Polkadot 升级版进一步构建了这一愿景。JAM 将让任何人都能建造一个平行链,而不是让建造者去拍卖一个平行链。这次升级不仅仅是技术上的。它的推出还正值 Polkadot 试图重振 2021 年的辉煌之际。然而摆脱 DeFi 长期困扰的困境并非易事。员工们表示,由于高管薪酬过高,Parity 不仅需要裁掉大量员工,而且裁员过程处理得也很尴尬。当时该公司在前往至 Mallorca 前一周宣布了裁员消息,但并未透露具体裁员人员。一名 Parity 员工称其为「一个超现实的、恶作剧笑话」。Wood 没有参加海滩度假,这让很多人感到愤怒和困惑。7 月份,Parity 完成了重组,目前正在招聘新员工。Parity 的一位代表说,其招聘信息栏列出了 11 个空缺职位。

如今,Wood 的下一个项目可能会再次引起人们的关注,他称之为「墨水证明(proof-of-ink)」。在 Web3 峰会上,Wood 解释了 Polkadot 区块链如何生成独特的纹身图案。这些图案可以证明一个人就是他们在网上所说的那个人,而不会泄露其他信息。似乎可以应对在加密货币中,所谓的 Sybil 攻击(即一个用户创建多个身份)是一个常见问题。

Wood 展示了他二头肌上的二维码。在 2024 年底推出之前,他还在研究其他设计。「我真不希望这被传成是某种纹身识别系统。」在皮肤上纹上身份标识的做法可能会引起人们的强烈反应,尤其是在德国这样的地方。Wood 对这种暗示感到愤怒。

「我花了很长时间强调,这与身份识别无关,」他告诉 DL News。「这关乎个性。我花了很长时间强调隐私,这是使用强大的加密技术来保证隐私。我真的不希望有人说这是一种纹身识别系统,因为那完全是误导。」

该项目展示了 Wood 如何始终遵循自己的直觉,无论这将他引向何方,从与加密相关的纹身到以 DJ Wasabi 的身份演出音乐。「对我来说,除非是新颖的,否则做这件事就是不值得,」他说。「我是一个实验者。」

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