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The Basics

What is a wiki?

A wiki is an online knowledge base that can be contributed to and edited by anyone.

What is RADIX.wiki?

RADIX.wiki is a knowledge and community hub for the Radix ecosystem. At present, the site contains several articles, ecosystem listings and a jobs board but as Radix grows, we will build a fully decentralized, permissionless knowledge base entirely hosted on Radix and managed by the community as a DAO. Eventually, the system will grow to rival Wikipedia with the addition of dynamic oracle data feeds, prediction markets, deliberation voting, and other collective intelligence mechanisms to verify information.

RADIX.wiki is easy to contribute to and has several advantages over static content:

  1. Utility: Knowledge and experience are wasted if they aren’t shared, but a wiki can amplify and focus the collective wisdom, experience and intelligence of the Radix community, benefitting the whole web3 movement.
  2. Accessibility: Being spread across multiple locations makes information difficult and slow to find, but a comprehensive wiki can make it easier for community members to find the information they need, whether they are researching a topic or solving a problem.
  3. Speed: Information on a wiki can be updated within minutes of a new development, giving an immediate benefit to the community.
  4. Accuracy: Multiple users can contribute and edit content on a wiki, leading to a more comprehensive, balanced, accurate and up-to-date resource that also reflects the diversity of its contributors.
  5. Neutrality: Hype can be off-putting for newcomers, but a neutral voice helps people to view information about Radix objectively.
  6. Simplicity: A user-friendly interface makes it easy for anyone to contribute to Radix, no matter how small.
  7. Version control: The ability to roll back changes makes it easy to correct mistakes.
  8. Collaboration: Bringing knowledge and creators together in one place increases the collision rate of the community, leading to more projects and shared endeavors that will compound for Radix over the coming weeks and months.

What are the benefits of a wiki?

  1. Being permissionless reduces the friction of contributing, which encourages people to share their knowledge and add value freely, rather than keep it to themselves.
  2. Having multiple editors allows for a diversity of perspectives that reflect the pluralistic reality of the world, rather than the limited perspective of a single individual.

Why Radix?

Radix is the only network with the performance and scalability to serve the $400tn financial system. Our working hypothesis is that all EVM chains are climbing the wrong hill. With its X’ian release in 2023, Radix will be a fully sharded network capable of true cross-shard atomic composability. Having 2^256 shards means that it also scales linearly with the number of validators. Written in Rust, the Radix Engine employs finite state machines that natively understand on-ledger assets and eliminate the majority of edge-case considerations inherent in Solidity. This makes it possible to replicate Uniswap in only 155 lines of code or build dApps like chess and Twitter that are not feasible on Ethereum. Ethereum took 2.5 years to hit 1m transactions per day and has hovered around that level ever since. Being 10x faster to develop on and ~1000x more performant, Radix is likely to surpass this number within only a few months and continue to grow. Read more in the article The Seven Seas of Liquidity.

How can I contribute?

  1. ✍️ EDIT - Share your knowledge / project.
  2. 📣 COMMENT - Questions, suggestions, etc.
  3. 💸 SPONSORSHIP - Enquiries via @RadixWiki.

How does editing work?

  1. Sign up for Notion here. It’s free and super useful for things like building a second brain.
  2. Click here, the link in the navbar (desktop) or main menu (mobile), then on ‘Edit’ in the top-right corner.
  3. Make any changes you wish. All edits are saved automatically.
  4. Wait for your changes to be published. This is done manually so please be patient. Ping us on Twitter @RadixWiki if you have been waiting a while.

Is $EXRD the same as $XRD?

$eXRD is a wrapped version of $XRD on Ethereum, which was created to aid distribution. Both versions are swappable 1:1 on Bitfinex.

Could Radix’s fixed shard space run out of addresses?

Theoretically yes, but practically no. Every possible Bitcoin address could fit into the Cerberus shardspace 79 billion billion billion times so it’s more likely that the universe will end before we run out of space. However, if the inconceivable does happen, then we could hard fork to a bigger one.

RADIX.wiki is an open-source knowledge base for the Radix ecosystem. Knowledge is power, so the freer and better organized it is, the stronger the Radix community can be and the faster it can grow. Thanks to kind people retweeting our content and a few tentative contributions from the community, we have been able to help visitors from 45 countries and are roughly doubling our reach every 4 weeks.

For updates, guidance on how to edit, questions, collaborations or sponsorship enquiries, please connect with us on Twitter @RadixWiki or leave a comment on the site: https://RADIX.wiki Thanks!

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