IRITA: Setting new performance records in China

By Medium July 26, 2023 In Blockchain, China

IRITA, the enterprise-focused blockchain framework, built using the Interchain Stack, has once again been acknowledged for its prowess in the Trusted Blockchain Initiatives(TBI) Performance and Functionality tests.

Conducted by the China Telecommunication Technology Labs (CTTL), passing the TBI tests is a key requirement for onboarding large businesses and enterprises in China to the interchain ecosystem.

This is the second time that IRITA passed the TBI tests. Since passing the test for the first time in 2021, the team significantly improved IRITA’s performance — this time, setting new records for the blockchain utilizing CometBFT(Tendermint) consensus.

Passing the test, while breaking the performance records (measured in transactions per second), demonstrates once again the suitability of the Interchain Stack in powering large scale, enterprise blockchains.

Revolutionizing Performance with CometBFT

The Trusted Blockchain Initiatives’ Performance Evaluation is designed to check how reliably blockchain technologies perform under high-stress usage. The tests encompass five key areas: System Fundamentals, Stress Tests, Peak Impact Scenarios, Long-term Stability, and Query Performance.

Leveraging the interchain’s consensus engine — CometBFT — together with custom optimizations by the team at Bianjie, IRITA has unlocked unparalleled performance capabilities.

IRITA achieved a 100% success rate across all five areas, and even set some new highs:

Processed 13,991 transactions per second (TPS) in high-concurrency Stress Tests
Reached 27,956 TPS in Peak Impact Tests
Achieved a maximum query performance of 37,693 queries per second (QPS)

In the Functionality Evaluation, the TBI rigorously tested IRITA’s capabilities across 15 major areas and 52 specific items, including network configuration, dynamic node management, and secure data storage and transmission. Thanks to the robust modular framework and interoperability enabled by the Interchain Stack, IRITA surpassed all evaluation criteria with flying colors.

About IRITA

Built with CometBFT and IRIS SDK, and backed by Bianjie’s skilled engineers, the IRITA framework has successfully supported a wide range of enterprise use cases, showcasing its versatility and adaptability. It can be widely applied in various industrial sectors, including finance, healthcare, supply chain management, and automotive IoT, providing value empowerment to the real economy based on blockchain trust machines.

AWS and Bianjie co-authored and highlighted IRITA as an example to illustrate how to deploy Cosmos-based enterprise-level chains on the AWS platform, providing a comprehensive exploration of its capabilities.

One notable adoption of IRITA is seen in the WenChang Chain, an Open Permissioned Blockchain that has supported over 3,000 dApps in China. The exceptional performance of IRITA, supporting high-concurrency chain access with numerous dApps, made it the ideal choice as the foundation for the WenChang Chain.

Additionally, IRITA has been instrumental in supporting other enterprise chains such as Hainan International Culture and Artworks Exchange, and Global Digital Bank. These chains benefit from the robust performance, functionality and enterprise-friendly development environment, enabling trusted and reliable businesses on a global scale.

IRITA has six core technological advantages:

privacy-preserving data encryption and sharing;
efficient consensus protocol;
advanced cross-chain technology;
highly practical on-chain/off-chain system interaction and multi-party collaborative business flow integration capabilities;
flexible asset digital modelling and trusted exchange support;
as well as big data storage.

With the underlying support of the Interchain Stack, IRITA empowers seamless and secure global trade, facilitating the transformation of Web2 enterprises into the interchain, further serving as a bridge between the Web3 ecosystem and the physical economy, facilitating integration and collaboration between these domains.

The Trusted Blockchain Initiatives (TBI)

Conducted by the China Telecommunication Technology Labs (CTTL), these tests hold great domestic authority and are held in high esteem internationally.

The TBI scheme has been running for over 5 years and has thus far rigorously tested and certified several of China’s prominent technology providers, including China Mobile, Tencent, Webank and AntChain, ZTE Corporation.

The China Telecommunication Technology Labs (CTTL) is part of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT).

About CAICT

Founded in 1957, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) is a scientific institute directly under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) of China.

The Trusted Blockchain Initiatives conducted by CAICT is the earliest and most representative evaluation system for blockchain products in China. It was initiated in 2017 and has provided evaluation services to more than 180 blockchain entities over the past six years. Currently, the evaluation system encompasses six major modules and 25 specialized evaluation services, including basic evaluation, complementary evaluation, hardware and software synergy evaluation, independent innovation evaluation, application evaluation, and capability assessment. It provides a fair and open platform for the exchange of blockchain technology and applications, fostering the healthy development of the blockchain industry.

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