I’ve been DCAing into TBSE for years, so when they announced , I was excited. But after digging through the explorer and the Discord, I found something weird.
Supposedly a Layer-1 fork that uses "Proof of History" mixed with TBSE's standard consensus. Basically, Solana meets TBSE. tbse-x
Here is what I found looking under the hood: I’ve been DCAing into TBSE for years, so
The experimental "X" architecture introduces sharding. However, sharding a TBSE-based state root is risky. Cross-shard transactions currently rely on a centralized notary pool (Phase 1). This reintroduces trust assumptions that the original TBSE was designed to eliminate. Basically, Solana meets TBSE
I ran a node for 72 hours. Here are the raw metrics vs. the whitepaper claims. 🧵👇
Unlike its predecessor (TBSE), TBSE-X appears to be moving away from a monolithic ledger. The whitepaper suggests a modular execution layer . They are attempting to separate consensus from computation. If it works, we could see transaction finality drop from ~6 seconds to sub-second.
Anyone else get whitelisted for the testnet? What's your uptime %?