As an EEA member, Wanchain is a part of the EEA neighborhood of organizations working to advance Ethereum and drive {industry} adoption. Within the Q&A under, the EEA interviewed Dr. Weijia Zhang, Wanchain’s Vice President of Engineering, about how the group contributes to the Ethereum enterprise ecosystem. Dr. Weijia Zhang serves because the EEA’s Regional Head in China and the EEA’s Crosschain Interoperability Working Group Co-Chair.
Please introduce your organization and your self briefly.
Wanchain’s mission is to drive blockchain adoption by way of interoperability. We accomplish that by constructing crosschain infrastructure that connects the world’s many siloed blockchain networks. The aim of this infrastructure is to empower builders to construct decentralized crosschain purposes that energy the way forward for Web3.
I function the EEA’s Regional Head in China and Co-Chair of the EEA’s Crosschain Interoperability Working Group, the place I lead and promote the event of crosschain interoperability requirements. It ought to come as no shock that Wanchain goes to nice lengths to make sure that our crosschain infrastructure abides by one of the best practices established by the EEA.
At Wanchain, I lead the design of infrastructure. I’ve intensive R&D and engineering expertise in blockchain, cognitive sciences, computational fluid dynamics, software program modeling, laptop applied sciences, and industrial requirements. Through the years, I’ve revealed greater than thirty analysis and technical papers and have secured greater than twenty patents in laptop and digital expertise. I additionally train sensible contract improvement on the College of Texas at Austin and not too long ago co-authored a textbook entitled Blockchain and Ethereum Sensible Contract Resolution Growth.
What first introduced you to the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, and why did you resolve to change into a member?
Wanchain has been a member of the EEA since 2018. Very early on, we realized that interoperability was a prerequisite to the widespread adoption of blockchain options. We additionally knew that it was necessary to have formalized greatest practices and requirements. As such, aligning ourselves with each Ethereum and the EEA was an apparent choice. The EEA’s mission is complementary to our personal and the EEA’s member-driven tradition creates implausible alternatives to change concepts with and be taught from different {industry} consultants whereas selling the necessity for interoperability all through the Ethereum ecosystem and blockchain {industry} at giant. We are able to consider no entity that’s higher suited to guide the event of research-based greatest practices and requirements than the EEA, which is spurring technical innovation and blockchain adoption.
What are you at present engaged on as regards to Ethereum? How will end-users profit out of your work?
Wanchain’s crosschain infrastructure contains a sustainable Layer 1 proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain and a decentralized, wide-area community of blockchains. The Wanchain Layer 1 PoS blockchain is a full Ethereum-like setting that works with industry-standard Ethereum instruments, dApps, and protocols. Wanchain’s vast space community of blockchains is a decentralized system of direct, non-custodial crosschain bridges connecting greater than 18 completely different Layer 0, Layer 1 and Layer 2 networks, together with each EVM and non-EVM blockchains.
We had been among the many first to deploy bridges to Ethereum and have pioneered quite a lot of mechanisms which can be commonplace at the moment, together with however not restricted to the lock-mint-burn-unlock mechanism. We had been additionally the primary to deploy decentralized direct bridges connecting Bitcoin and Ethereum. Now, we proceed to make incremental enhancements to our infrastructure whereas rising the variety of supported chains and transaction sorts with out sacrificing safety and decentralization. Whereas end-users can and do use our bridges to switch fungible tokens and NFTs throughout our vast space community of blockchains, the true profit to end-users comes from builders who leverage our infrastructure to construct decentralized crosschain purposes and artistic use instances.
After all, Wanchain continues to work carefully with the EEA to submit EIPs geared toward enhancing interoperability. We additionally frequently publish papers formalizing use instances for crosschain purposes, greatest practices for crosschain safety, greatest practices for decentralization, and extra.
How will the EEA improve your group’s present efforts?
The EEA has been invaluable in connecting its members and offering alternatives to share information and experience. We stay up for the EEA persevering with to increase its enterprise and schooling outputs in order that consultants industry-wide can proceed to be taught concerning the newest enterprise and technical improvements. As well as, I’ve lengthy been enthusiastic about schooling. So, for me, essentially the most fascinating EEA applications are academic in nature, for instance, the assorted academic webinars and EEA Working Teams and Curiosity Teams. The EEA’s primers, academic seminars and topic-specific Working and Curiosity Teams additionally habitually lead to necessary takeaways that profit Wanchain, EEA members and the Ethereum enterprise ecosystem.
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Dr. Weijia Zhang and Tej Anand revealed the guide “Blockchain and Ethereum Sensible Contract Resolution Growth”. This guide is written for each enterprise and technology-oriented readers. The primary a part of the guide helps readers perceive blockchain structure, core parts, and enterprise semantics and purposes. The second a part of the guide helps readers be taught concerning the Ethereum blockchain and write sensible contracts with Solidity and construct decentralized purposes. This guide is revealed by Springer/Apress and is obtainable by way of Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
