专访Saga联创Rebecca：Saga的起源、技术、愿景与100+潜在空投
Interview and compilation: Alex Liu, Foresight News
Saga is a Layer 1 protocol that allows developers to automatically create virtual machine-agnostic, parallelized, interoperable private chains, known as Chainlets, providing unlimited horizontal scalability for applications. Its mainnet was officially launched yesterday, and the token opened higher on the top exchanges, reaching a maximum of 7.89 USDT, with a fully diluted value (FDV) of nearly US$8 billion.
Before it landed on Binance Launchpool, broke the event’s historical record for total locked-up value and number of participants, and had a brilliant price performance after the market opened, not many people paid attention to it and knew about it. For a time, the Chinese community was flooded with questions: What kind of project is this and why is it so powerful?
Previously, Foresight News had an exclusive interview with Rebecca Liao, CEO and co-founder of Saga, and talked with her about Saga’s origins, technology, vision and 100+ potential airdrop opportunities in the future. I hope this article comes at the right time and can help you clear up your doubts and understand Saga in an in-depth conversation.
The following is the content of the interview:
Foresight News: Thanks for the interview with Foresight News. Before founding Saga, you worked as a lawyer and worked in AI-related technology companies and political teams. Please briefly introduce yourself and talk about why you later entered the blockchain industry and founded Saga.
Rebecca: My career has always been centered on development economics. While working for Globality, the first AI startup I joined, I learned about Bitcoin and blockchain and the clear impact it could have on democratizing financial services, which gave me my first strong desire to start a company. , so he co-founded Skuchain with Zaki Manian, a DeFi project focusing on the field of RWAs.
By 2020, its annual transaction volume reached US$5 billion. In 2021, I left the company to pursue a potential government position, but ultimately decided to stay in the crypto industry. Saga was founded out of a desire to give developers a complete blockchain end-to-end (E2E) experience that didn’t exist before. L1 L1 is built on a system that scales infinitely and remains free on the front end, enabling Web3 developers to ultimately build applications that achieve mass adoption. From that point on, we focused on the applications that needed this infrastructure the most: gaming and entertainment. Sagas vision is to provide a space for those who dare to pursue their wildest dreams - a place to celebrate freedom and explore creative expression.
Foresight News: You mentioned on X that you have known Zaki (a core contributor to Cosmos) 10 years ago and have contributed to the Cosmos project before. Why did you choose the Cosmos SDK to build your project?
Rebecca:Zaki and I are co-founders of Skuchain. After he started building Cosmos, I knew the power of the technology and understood the challenges. Not everyone wants sovereign independent application chains, but using private block space to scale applications is the answer for future blockchain applications. Thats why we decided to use the Cosmos SDK to build Saga.
Cosmos remains the only stack that supports native multi-chains, understands the challenges of building decentralized blockchains, and provides fast bridging and interoperability with other chains. All other scaling solutions, including Rollups and other app chain variants, are still catching up to the technical understanding of the Cosmos SDK.
Foresight News: Many people put Saga under the modular umbrella. Do you think this classification is accurate? Or is BaaS more suitable?
Rebecca: From a technical perspective, Saga can indeed be classified in the modular field, because it focuses on providing dedicated blockchain solutions and has the ability to provide verification services for blockchains created with Saga and provide ordering services for modular Rollups Ability. Additionally, Sagas partnership with Celestia and subsequent partnership with Polygon demonstrates our adaptability and ability to provide critical infrastructure in the Web3 space, solidifying our position in the modular blockchain ecosystem.
It is accurate for Saga to be classified in the modular field, but it is worth emphasizing that BaaS (Blockchain as a service) is not more appropriate to describe Saga. Different from traditional BaaS solutions, Saga emphasizes providing dedicated block space and has the ability to automatically instantiate dedicated chains. It is more in line with the modular blockchain framework and allows for scalability and scalability when deploying dedicated blockchain solutions. flexibility.
Foresight News: What is the difference between Chainlet built with Saga and RollApp built with Dymension? What is unlimited horizontal expansion?
Rebecca: The difference between Chainlets built using Saga and RollApp built using Dymension is significant.
Benefiting from our platform’s protocols, Chainlets built with Saga are able to automatically launch fully decentralized private chains, with inter-chain communication (IBC) and fast bridging allowing them to freely interact between Chainlets, the Saga main chain, and other blockchains. Ability to operate. This provides unlimited performance and scalability, making it an ideal solution for developers looking for a modular and scalable blockchain infrastructure.
RollApp, built with Dymension, on the other hand, focuses on trade settlement, consensus, and execution, while leveraging external providers for data availability, execution environment, and liquidity. Unlike Chainlets on Saga, Dymension RollApp runs within a fully modular framework, allowing flexibility in selecting DA providers and execution environments to meet specific application needs, but also adding complexity. Since Dymension lacks a local settlement environment, there is no fast finality and therefore no fast bridging capabilities or interoperability.
Chainlets on Saga also provide developers with a block space price based on commodity tiers. Our economic model does not seek to combine the prices of the multiple protocols that make up the stack, as in a fully modular system, but instead strives to achieve zero cost on the front end so that developers can monetize as they wish, The end user will not pay any Gas fees to Saga. Considering that Chainlet fees are the only fees in the system, it should be the most economical way to develop.
Infinite horizontal scalability is the core concept of Saga - all Chainlets are parallelized application chain instances, enabling applications to elastically expand to their maximum performance and speed, meeting the requirements of unlimited scalability in the blockchain ecosystem. need. You can understand why Saga is so attractive for games and entertainment.
Foresight News: What do you think of the current progress and prospects of web3 games?
Rebecca: We foresee Web3 games moving towards early forms of the multiverse, emphasizing the role of modders and creators in shaping game IP. The industrys focus will shift toward harnessing the power of community and creative expression, rather than relying solely on the production value of games. This marks an exciting and transformative phase for Web3 gaming over the next few years. One concrete example of what we believe is current progress: user adoption growth. The Web3 game market is continuing to grow, with an increase in the number of independent active wallets and an increase in industry share. A good example of this is that 80% of the 300+ projects built on Saga fall into the gaming category. X-to-Earn mode apps also provide players with the opportunity to leverage their skills and gaming time, creating a more engaging and profitable gaming environment for everyone.
Foresight News: Why do games need to be built on the blockchain? And why is it its own L1 instead of building it with other games on Ethereum L2 like Immutable? How to solve the liquidity problem of cross-chain transactions of virtual assets? Will there be a unified market?
Rebecca: Games built on blockchain can gain true ownership of game assets, achieve a decentralized economy and enhanced security. Using blockchain, game developers can provide players with assets with verifiable scarcity, provable ownership, and the ability to securely trade game assets across different platforms. Unlike games that are deployed on Ethereum L2 along with other games, using Saga to develop games on their own L1 blockchain gives developers more control over the game ecosystem. This approach provides dedicated block space, scalability, and community-driven governance, allowing for customized experiences and efficient interactions within the gaming environment.
Saga solves the problem of cross-chain transaction liquidity of virtual items by providing dedicated infrastructure, making seamless interoperability between Chainlets, Saga main chain and other blockchains possible. This facilitates liquidity transfer and interoperability of assets, solving liquidity constraints associated with cross-chain transactions.
Sagas focus on promoting collaboration and expanding the multiverse shows the potential to unify the market. The platform’s focus on community-produced content and decentralized control of games lends credence to the possibility.
Foresight News: Saga is currently focusing on the gaming ecosystem. What unique advantages does it have that attract these GameFi projects? Will Saga expand into other fields besides games in the future?
Rebecca: It was clear that the GameFi project was attracted to our groundbreaking innovation in infrastructure. The first phase of the mainnet allows developers to automatically launch fully decentralized private chains (Chainlets) on Saga. This enables developers to leverage IBC to freely interoperate between Chainlets, Saga, and other chains, providing unlimited performance and scalability. Additionally, the Saga Multiverse Summit showcases a growing community of innovators creating games on Saga, including projects like Shrapnel, Cosmic Exodus, and AILAND, that deliver innovative and immersive gaming experiences. While Saga is currently focused on the gaming ecosystem, our mission is to break down barriers in Web3 so creators can focus on creating without having to build backend systems themselves. What is clear is that by automatically launching parallelized and interoperable private chains, we will expand into other areas, such as entertainment or decentralized finance.
Foresight News: Saga is an L1 that publishes L1. It is a to B project, but it pays special attention to the community. What does community mean to Saga?
Rebecca: Community is vital to Saga, representing a diverse network of creators, developers and evangelists. It is a hub that fosters creativity, drives innovation, and supports individuals in realizing their vision within the Saga ecosystem. Without our community, there would be no our project. It is the backbone of our user base, the cornerstone of our market development, and an important factor in attracting games and other applications. It’s because we have such a wonderful community that apps are attracted to using us.
Our mission is to be a place for crazy dreamers to achieve their wildest dreams, and I think weve made great progress on the road to that goal.
Foresight News: The community reported that due to the relatively complicated airdrop rules, not many groups could actually receive it. Saga has announced that airdrops will be given to SAGA stakers in the second phase. Will those users who are not eligible in the first phase, including many long-term stakers, still have a chance in the future?
Rebecca: We will release all the conditions for the second season airdrop event soon, and all unclaimed first season airdrops will be distributed to SAGA stakers in the second season. Additionally, we have teased our stakers with over 100 confirmed airdrops from our partners. The total number of eligible wallets in the first quarter was 200,000, which is a healthy number. These wallets must be distributed among our key technology partners, including Cosmos, Celestia, Avalanche, and Polygon, as well as our community, ecosystem builders, and gamers participating in our Play-to-Airdrop campaigns. With so many stakeholders, airdrop standards must be designed to be broad.
Foresight News: After the mainnet goes online, what will be the development focus of the project? What can players and token stakers look forward to in the future?
Rebecca: We will complete all 6 phases of the mainnet launch, launch the game through Saga Origins, continue to attract new projects to join our innovator program - there are currently a full 350 projects participating, and execute 100+ for our stakers airdrop. Final statistics will be disclosed in our press release accompanying the mainnet launch.
