Seele and the evolution of the blockchain Internet

Seele and the evolution of the blockchain Internet

Seele is an upcoming ICO that is labeling itself as the new BlockChain 4.0.
The word Seele is actually German and and it's derived meaning is translated to the word Soul.
Seele's ultimate long term vision is to be the backbone infrastructure that helps interconnect the traditional and non traditional businesses of the world. Seele wants to be the eco system that is able to unite the traditional centralized database systems with the new emerging markets of blockchain based systems. Seele believes that by building an ecosystem in which collaboration and communication can be shared between both old and new emerging technologies, it will essentially create what would be called the new 'Value Internet'.

Seele is currently partnered with different univsities, investment firms, and companies such as:
UCL CBT, Univeristy of Oxford, Stanford Univestiry, UCLA, ChainTED Capital, Great Ocean Capital, IBM Watson, and The University of Edinburgh.

Seele plans to have their testnet running Q2 of this year and plans to have their mainnet Q3 of this year 2018. Currently they have done part of the fundamental transport protocol, P2P network, node discovery, simple node communication, and, frame work of the smart contract. They are active on github with their commits.

Seele will primarily focus on the healthcare field first.
Partners/Organizations with universities are more researched focused because this tech is very new and cutting edge and research is key to help developing this project.
Team has around 40 people globally

Seele is proposing many new and interesting concepts to achieve the above desired goals:

Neural Consensus Algorithm:

• Inspired by the concept of how the brain works with biological neural networks
  -The brain is extremely ordered, through evolution humans were able to develop emotions and feelings under different environments.
  -How the brain orders the neurons in our body will help to effect the way we feel,smell, and taste.
  -Neural Consensus Algorithm essentially will solve the 'ordering' aspect, but applied to consensus.
  -Its not just using a simple consensus algorithm, its a group consensus algorithm allowing users to be able to swap consensus within the blockchian
  -Algorithm used is E differential agreement (EDA)
  -Through repeated incomplete random sampling the traditional consensus agreement will be transformed into a continuous voting.
  -The algorithm uses the position of coordinates on a virtual axis as the basis of the block ordering so that the block ordering no longer depends on the consensus of the pre-block.
  -There is no head node selection process in the scheme, and there is no PoW or PoS required

Benefits:
-Adding more nodes to the network helps to improve the network vs slowing it down in other existing blockchain infrastructures.
-Asynchronous request processing
-Performance increases linearly with the node size
-In testing: 100k nodes, reached 100k TPS
-During each round of consensus,the nodes in the selection are all random and different

Heterogeneous Forest Network:
-to enable the definition, storage, transfer and transformation of resources and assets on the Value Internet
-the forest network architecture will help bridge the real world and the digital world
-consists of different subnets with each subnet is seen as a hierarchical partition tree
-the top of the tree chain is a global service chain, called "Meta chain", which provides global configuration and scheduling service.
-Each layer can set it's own independent governance mechanisms: access rights, flow control, security mechanisms
-Each layer can form it's own independent small ecology. The combination of the various ecologies constitutes a complete large ecosystem.

Value Transfer Protocol:
-Problem is that addresses are hard to read for humans
-A simple example would be how DNS addresses are mapped to IP addresses or how ethereum addresses have ENS.
-VTP uses something similar to HTTP, with something they call the Uniform Asset Identifier (UAI).
-This is similar to how the HTTP protocol uses Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI)
-For blockchain networks, the data on the chain is the asset.

Sample UAI:
E.g CHAIN://edu.pku.cs/account/data
'CHAIN: //' is the default protocol header,
'edu', 'pku' and 'cs' are the chain identifications at all levels
'account' is the account on the chain (or contract)
'data' is the account of some information, it can be the account balance, notes, and even a contract interface.

VHTTP:
-This protocol implements the exchange of values between chains, on and off chain
-VHTTP is compatible with HTTP protocol and can recognize the format of HTTP request packets.
-VHTTP has similar methods as the normal HTTP protocol as well:
GET - Request to obtain the resource information identified by UAI
POST - Create assets (store assets on the chain)
TRANSFER - Transfer assets between two UAIs
-Users outside the chain can access the assets and data in the chain directly through the HTTP protocol

Quick Value Internect Connection (QVIC) Protocol:
-The proposed transport layer protocol for Seele in comparision to TCP/UDP networking protocols
-Under the condition of using QVIC protocol, the transmission rate of 1G file was increased from 100Kbps to 1Mbps.
-In comparision to TCP, the transmission rate reached 00% for a 1GB data transmission

Future Development toolkits:
SeeleEditor (a complete contract development tool):
-A complete application development tool chain. support the development, testing, and deployment of contracts in one environment.
-Cross-platform SDK support
-Build a plug-in store, like Unity, to provide contract development components and sample programs to improve development efficiency.
-IDE with community modules

Overall, I feel Seele is a very great and ambitious project. Seele's idea and goal of being the soul of the blockchain helps to foster communication between traditional and new technologies. Seele's value internet must connect the new internet with the old internet i.e old fashioned DBs using mysql. By being a forward and backward compatible infrastructure, Seele is able to create a new type of Value Internet for everyone to benefit from.