Patrick O'Grady: Avalanche – Building High Performance VMs With HyperSDK

The recent history of L2s has shown that there doesn’t need to be ‘one chain to rule them all’ or an ‘ETH killer’. Instead, a healthier approach would be to find the best solution for a specific need, taking into consideration any potential tradeoffs. Avalanche has done just that, focusing from the get-go on delivering high transaction throughput, using their unique subnet architecture, consensus protocol and warp messaging. HyperSDK continues this conviction, offering a framework for developers to spin up customisable, high performance virtual machines.

We were joined by Patrick O’Grady, VP of Engineering at Ava Labs, to discuss HyperSDK and how it enables building customisable, high performance VMs on Avalanche subnets.

Topics covered in this episode:

• Patrick’s background
• Avalanche’s consensus protocol
• Subnets
• AvalancheGo design concepts
• Warp messaging
• Staking and subnet validators
• HyperSDK
• HyperSDK vs. Cosmos SDK
• Avalanche throughput parameters
• Custom solutions for developers

Episode links:

• Patrick O'Grady on Twitter
• Ava Labs on Twitter
• Avalanche on Twitter

This episode is hosted by Meher Roy & Felix Lutsch. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/506