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Scalability Costs
Scaling? Yes, towards thousands, ehm, hundred thou.., ehmm, Billions! We have tested our current commit-chain implementation with up to 100'000 client accounts, and the costs grow such that one commit-chain can support more than 1 Billion users 😊 - no matter how many transactions are done on the commit-chain.
Moreover, clients are light by nature and have only a few kb of storage and bandwidth requirements. Note, however, that clients are required to come online once in a round (every 36h) to audit their state. We plan to relax this requirements with watchtowers.
Now, please enjoy the following graph that shows on the x-axis up to 1 Billion users, and on the y-axis the blockchain costs for withdrawal (exit) and disputes with the operator.
NOCUST setup
More detailed and finer granular cost analysis can be found in the following table.
NOCUST Costs
Cost Growth
Checkpoint Notarization
80k gas
Constant
Deposit
135k gas
Constant
Withdraw Initiation
150k gas, <400k gas @ 1 Billion users
O(log(n_users) + log(n_supported_tokens)))
Dispute Initiation
220k gas, <450k gas @ 1Billion users
O(log(n_users) + log(n_supported_tokens)))
Dispute Answer
250k gas, ~<200k gas @ 1Billion users
O(log(n_users) + log(n_supported_tokens)))
Operator Storage
All client accounts
O(n_users)
Operator Bandwidth
All active client accounts
O(n_users)
Client Storage
312 bytes per transfer in the last 2 rounds + 1kb
Constant
Client Verification
Transfer signatures + one merkle proof per round
Constant
Client Bandwidth
Own transactions only
Constant
Fair Mass Exit
Yes
Delayed Transaction Finality
Yes, within 72 hours
Free
Instant Transaction Finality
Yes, insurance capital
Depending on client need
Token Support
ETH, ERC20
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