From 25d2043909d351ef2f3b2386af95e11ab2c36ab6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: krane <89357497+0xkrane@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2024 13:13:51 +0400 Subject: [PATCH] docs: remove inaccurate statement about PoW chains (#20877) Co-authored-by: Marko --- docs/learn/intro/01-why-app-specific.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/learn/intro/01-why-app-specific.md b/docs/learn/intro/01-why-app-specific.md index 733102d85fd0..170e45e9e043 100644 --- a/docs/learn/intro/01-why-app-specific.md +++ b/docs/learn/intro/01-why-app-specific.md @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ The list above contains a few examples that show how much flexibility applicatio Decentralized applications built with Smart Contracts are inherently capped in performance by the underlying environment. For a decentralized application to optimise performance, it needs to be built as an application-specific blockchain. Next are some of the benefits an application-specific blockchain brings in terms of performance: -* Developers of application-specific blockchains can choose to operate with a novel consensus engine such as CometBFT. Compared to Proof-of-Work (used by most virtual-machine blockchains today), it offers significant gains in throughput. +* Developers of application-specific blockchains can choose to operate with a novel consensus engine such as CometBFT. * An application-specific blockchain only operates a single application, so that the application does not compete with others for computation and storage. This is the opposite of most non-sharded virtual-machine blockchains today, where smart contracts all compete for computation and storage. * Even if a virtual-machine blockchain offered application-based sharding coupled with an efficient consensus algorithm, performance would still be limited by the virtual-machine itself. The real throughput bottleneck is the state-machine, and requiring transactions to be interpreted by a virtual-machine significantly increases the computational complexity of processing them.