What is the main network and test network in blockchain?
Tags: Network, Blockchain, Pdx

Recently, “the main network online” this word is very popular, naturally by the default of the industry is “the first year of the competition”.When discussing the development of blockchain in communication with many peers, one often hears the question “how is your corporate chain?”, “the main network is not online” and so on.So, what exactly is a backbone network?

What is a test network?

Test net is relative to Main net, which refers to the blockchain network that is officially online and can run independently, and the digital currency circulating on the Main network has real economic value.Then the test network is the predecessor of the main network, which is the beta version of the future public link. Similar to the main network, it is mainly used for the rapid development of projects and early participation of community members.

What is the main network?

Provids net (Main) is compared with the Test net net (Test), refer to bitcoin.org for the definition of Main currency, provids refers to the currency trading is the original and the Main network, in the above of the currency in circulation has a real economic value, and Main chain refers to the official online, stand-alone block chain network, the network on the trading behavior by community full approval.

Test network vs. main network

Compared to the main network, test network may not be so popular attention.Mainline for a project, even if the landing, even the sharp rise in the price of currency seems to be around the corner.However, the release of the test network is a crucial step in bringing the main network online.At this stage, project community members and supporters participate in the verification, mining and other processes in the test network, and find and feedback deficiencies in the process;The technical team of the project side keeps making corrections and improvements to pave the way for the appearance of the main network.

For example, if the blockchain project wants to conquer the sea, it has to build a fully equipped and invincible warship, which is the construction of the underlying chain.During the test net period, the ship is repeatedly calibrated before sailing, with the best parts replaced and adjusted to the optimal battle condition.

PDX public chain has been put online for testing in October 2019, and it is believed that the main network will also be online soon. Let’s take a look at some specific testing contents:

1. IaaS & BaaS platform of PDX Unity blockchain: it is a blockchain IaaS platform that supports one-button chain building, one-button deployment, multi-chain symbiosis, cross-chain interconnection and cross-customer acquisition.

2.PDX BaaP multi-chain PaaS Platform: as the multi-chain PaaS Platform of PDX BaaP(blockchain-as-a-platform), the architecture introduces the concept of contract container and multi-chain “engine” in the design. Each “engine” can be as small as a consensus algorithm or as large as a complete Blockchain protocol stack.PDX BaaP can automatically, simultaneously support cross-chain, multi-chain, achieve end-to-end credibility.At the same time, it supports a variety of heterogeneous chains and their hot-plugging multi-chain PaaS platform, realizing intelligent contract automatic cross-chain, reaching the level of “write once, run everywhere”, which can be likened to “change engines while driving”.

3.PDX Utopia block chain protocol stack: a large-scale, high-performance, low-latency, high-concurrency block chain engine based on PDX consensus algorithm, PDX ledger algorithm, PDX intelligent contract architecture and PDX P2P network algorithm, which supports the deployment of public chain and alliance chain.PDX Utopia endoscopically supports cross-chain sharing, cross-chain cross-endorsement and arbitrary storage of general certificates.Multiple Utopia block chains can share the same general certificate, which facilitates the superposition of multi-chain scale and performance to form an ecology.

4.PDX DataX controllable data sharing platform: it can realize “original data is inseparable from the territory, business model is deleted after being used, automatic intelligence of approval and verification, and the whole process is safe and reliable”, truly activate the big data and artificial intelligence ecology, and realize the distributed and safe data cloud.

5.PDX multi-currency wallet: support all ERC20 pass-through and BTC pass-through, support cross-chain transfer and cross-chain pass-through sharing, pass-through red envelope, pass-through mortgage and plug-in push.

6. PDX Safe trusted storage platform: anyone can create their own storage space, storage space (analogy: folder) and storage items (analogy: file) can be completely open, completely private, or subject to flexible add, delete, change, read control.PDX Sage supports storage of any content, including but not limited to text, pictures, audio, video, etc.

7. PDX multi-chain browser: PDX public chain data statistics and analysis platform is the main window to browse the block chain information, supporting browsing and inquiring any block, transaction, address and other details of the friendly tool.

In the future, the launch of the main network means that the project will start ecologically and the subsequent commercial activities will be meaningful.For example, a large number of DAPP can be developed on it. The bright vision of different chains described in the white paper really starts to be tested by users. In the future, more technology developers, miners and coin holders will participate.