TL;DR

• Ethereum and its layer 2 solutions are bringing its vision of the "world computer" closer to reality: a permissionless, global operating system designed to replace centralized, trusted intermediaries.
• However, to truly serve global users, the world computer faces significant challenges, including high costs for validating off-chain computation, EVM performance bottlenecks, storage limitations, barriers to onboard web2 users, and reliance on centralized frontends.
• We present the Super World Computer (SWC) Project: a highly customized L2 built on OP Stack to overcome these challenges.
  • Advanced fault-proof algorithms will lower validation costs and accelerate settlement times.
  • Parallel EVM execution will boost performance and lower latency.
  • EthStorage, integrated as Layer 3, will enable long-term, cost-effective storage for massive datasets.
  • Introduction of a non-transferable Soul Gas Token to ease the Web2 to Web3 transition by reducing onboarding costs.
  • A new web3:// standard will enable fully decentralized, on-chain applications and dynamic websites.
• The roadmap includes testnet and mainnet launches in 2024–2025, focusing on performance and scalability improvements.

What is the super world computer?

Ethereum is often referred to as the "world computer.” The "world computer" refers to a decentralized network that functions like a global operating system. It allows users to run applications, store data, and execute smart contracts without centralized control. The concept emphasizes a system where computation and data storage are distributed across many nodes, providing transparency, security, availability, and resistance to censorship.

Unfortunately, due to the limited computational power of Ethereum itself (e.g., in terms of transactions per second), the mission of the world computer to serve people around the world is greatly limited. To address the scalability problem, Ethereum is moving towards its layer 2 (L2), a.k.a., the Rollup-centric roadmap. The idea is to submit the off-chain transactions to Ethereum L1 and then validate the correctness of off-chain execution using fault proof or validity proof. In this way, the correctness of the execution result is guaranteed by the Ethereum L1, while the capacity of off-chain execution can be greatly increased.

While the Rollup approach has the potential to achieve hundreds or even thousands of TPS (transactions per second), Ethereum and its L2 solutions are still missing some critical components needed to become the world computer that serves global users without centralized control:

• High user onboarding cost. The gap between traditional web users and the emerging world of Web3 remains considerable, particularly due to the upfront cost of acquiring a gas token. Although airdrops attempt to alleviate this issue, they must carefully identify genuine users to avoid unnecessary token sell-offs. Bridging this gap is a core challenge for realizing the world computer vision.
• EVM performance limit. The sequential execution model of the EVM imposes a significant cap on the upper bound of L2 TPS. As a result, running internet-scale applications on L2 remains impractical.
• High storage cost even with the current L2 approach. A single node capacity limits the storage capacity of an L2 network, typically a few terabytes. This constraint means that L2 networks struggle to support internet-scale applications, such as Twitter, which generates approximately 12TB of data daily.
• Centralized frontend. Most of the frontends of Ethereum applications heavily rely on centralized servers and DNS mapping, which inherits all the drawbacks of centralized applications, such as single point of failure and censorship attacks. Although ENS and IPFS provide some level of censorship resistance, the web content is static and may disappear at any time.
• High validation costs on Ethereum: The validity proof approach demands powerful and expensive proving devices. Moreover, upgrading Layer 2 with new EVM EIPs incurs additional implementation costs in circuit design, which increases the risk of bugs, leading to what's known as "EVM-upgrade scary." While the fault-proof approach is more friendly to EVM upgrades, it involves long settlement times on Layer 1 (up to 7 days) and can become costly during periods of network congestion.

To address all these problems, we are introducing the super world computer - a highly customized OP Stack rollup designed to bring the vision of the world computer to life, backed by years of research and development.

Our Approach

Soul Gas Token

To bridge the gap between traditional web users and the growing world of Web3, SWC will adopt a non-transferable gas token named Soul Gas Token, where the SWC token (ERC20) is the native gas token of the SWC Rollup, thanks to the recent custom gas token feature of OP Stack.

The concept of Soul Gas Token revolves around facilitating Web2 users' entry into Web3 by airdropping them with a non-transferable gas token. This token will enable users to pay for transaction gas fees without the immediate selling pressure. Additionally, this feature does not require support from new wallets—existing EOA wallets will automatically prioritize using the Soul Gas Token for payment before drawing from the user's account balance. This initiative is particularly aimed at those new billions to Web3, providing a seamless transition without the upfront cost of acquiring a gas token.