What is the relationship between ORION and ARROW? What is it good for ARROW?

Since ORION went online, many friends argued that they did not fully understand the relationship between ORION and ARROW. Today, we will take you to explore it carefully.

What does advance network mean? It is also appropriate to say that “Food and fodder should go ahead of troops and horses”. ARROW is still under construction, and the ORION network takes the lead as “food and fodder”.

ORION plays a very simple role in ARROW, which is the testing network for ARROW. ORION and ARROW are twins. The two networks are almost identical in structure, including underlying technology and the external economic environment. The only difference is that ORION runs faster and has higher risks than ARROW. Such a network is not suitable for the practical use of decentralized applications, but very suitable for the development and testing of these applications, especially for financial DAPP, which has very high security requirements.

In the setting of these two networks, ARROW is the ultimate general blockchain development platform, as the actual network used; ORION, which shares ARROW’s ancestry, was born as a testing and development network. Simply put, we want to “train” ARROW to be a safe and easy-to-use development platform, but in order to get it right in one step without any mistakes, we need an identical “elderly brother” to experiment first. If the experiment is successful, then carried out on the “younger brother”.

There are actually three kinds of “training” : one for the network itself, one for external applications, and one for developers.

For the network itself

Refers to the governance proposal and iteration update for ARROW. As we all know, the feature of blockchain is that it cannot be rolled back before consensus is reached. Therefore, we need to be very careful in considering the governance proposal and update plan passed by the community. If the proposal is found to be ineffective or even not conducive to the development of the network after implementation, it will inevitably cause losses to the network and users.

ORION was a different story — the network modification plan was tested on ORION, shown to work, and then moved to ARROW to ensure the safety and stability of the actual network update.

For external applications

Refers to the development and testing of DAPP. We all know that today’s application development and testing is done in the same testing environment, which can lead to a lot of problems in the actual use when there is no problem in the testing environment.

How to solve this problem? The most important thing is the change in the testing environment. The testing environment and the real environment are definitely different, so if you want the test to be closer to the reality, a testing environment that is consistent with the actual environment is very necessary. This is ORION ‘s second location.

ORION and ARROW have almost the same infrastructure and economic structure. When DAPP is tested on ORION, it is equivalent to tested on ARROW in the real environment. When all the problems are solved, the final version of DAPP released on ARROW will be free for use.

For developers

In addition to testing, ORION is an early network. It means that the technical level in this network may not be very advanced, and the development team may be very young. For this reason, it is necessary to have an environment where developers can improve their skills through a lot of building and testing, and finally complete the transformation of the team.

ORION is ARROW ‘s advance network, its test network, early network and pre-release network for applications. Because of the existence of ORION, we first let proposals and applications be tested on it, so as to ensure the safety after ARROW goes online and protect the interests of users.

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