Tools

Terms (A–Z)

C

Chopsticks

Development

A mechanism for creating a test environment on Polkadot SDK (ex Substrate) (similar to a sandbox) for sending transactions via RPC

Comment: Used for test execution before network deployment.

Source

L

libp2p

Infrastructure

A modular network framework used in blockchain systems for peer-to-peer networking.

Comment: Handles messaging and peer discovery.

Source

P

PolkaVM

Development

A smart contract execution environment based on the RISC-V instruction set.

Comment: An advanced smart contract platform designed for high performance and EVM compatibility.

R

RocksDB

Storage

High-performance embedded database for key-value storage

Comment: Baseline storage engine being optimized/replaced in QF Network

Source

S

sp-trie

Storage

Polkadot SDK (ex Substrate)'s implementation of Patricia Merkle Tree for state storage

Comment: Being replaced by QMDB in QF Network optimization efforts

Source

Squid SDK

Development

Blockchain indexing framework for building APIs and explorers

Comment: Used for QF Network block explorer backend

Source

W

WebRTC

Infrastructure

Web Real-Time Communication, a collection of protocols and APIs for direct browser-to-browser communication.

Comment: Used for peer-to-peer connections between browsers and blockchain nodes.