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Key Features and Advantages

Gear.exe offers a suite of features that address the scalability and usability challenges faced by existing blockchain solutions. These features are designed to empower developers and enhance the user experience, making Gear.exe a powerful tool for modern dApp development.

Seamless Integration with Ethereum​

Gear.exe network is fully integrated with Ethereum and operates directly with native Ethereum’s smart contracts. This compatibility ensures that developers can adopt Gear.exe without needing additional tokens, interfaces, or complex configurations. Users and developers can keep using Ethereum’s existing tools and infrastructure they are familiar with for developing and interacting with Solidity-based smart contracts, including MetaMask, Etherscan, popular developer frameworks, environments, debugging tools, IDEs (Thirdweb, Tenderly, The Graph etc).

Parallel Execution​

Gear.exe’s architecture inherently supports parallel execution of programs, leveraging multiple CPUs to handle computational workloads efficiently. This capability allows developers to distribute tasks across several threads, enabling faster processing for applications like AI models, financial simulations, and complex gaming logic. By optimizing workloads for parallel execution, Gear.exe significantly boosts throughput and reduces bottlenecks, ensuring that even the most demanding applications can operate seamlessly.

A dApp developer can offload the heavy logic of their application to a separate program on Gear.exe and, if the program logic supports it, further parallelize these computations across multiple threads by running them on several programs simultaneously.

Advanced Programming Environment​

Gear.exe provides developers with a cutting-edge programming environment by combining the power of WebAssembly (Wasm) with the flexibility of Rust, a widely adopted and developer-friendly language. Wasm programs on Gear.exe enable high-performance, lightweight execution, while Rust’s rich ecosystem and safety features make it easier to write, test, and maintain complex applications. Additionally, Gear.exe supports up to 2GB of memory per program, significantly exceeding the constraints of Ethereum and Layer-2 rollups. This combination empowers developers to create larger, more sophisticated applications, such as financial simulations, AI models, and real-time gaming systems, without being hindered by traditional blockchain limitations.

Reverse Gas Model and Flexible Gas Management​

Besides the fact that Gear.exe minimizes the costs associated with decentralized computation by offloading resource-intensive tasks to its network, it also introduces a Reverse Gas model, shifting the cost of execution from users to the program itself. This approach ensures a seamless and accessible user experience, enabling broader adoption of decentralized applications (dApps).

Reverse gas

Gas Fees and Reverse Gas Model

In Gear.exe, programs maintain two types of balances:

  • Executable Balance: Dedicated solely to program execution. If this balance is depleted, the program cannot process new messages until replenished.
  • Free Balance: Acts as a general-purpose wallet for funds earned by the program, which can be withdrawn or converted into Executable Balance if supported by the program logic.

This model allows anyone to send messages to a program without incurring additional computational costs beyond the standard Ethereum transaction fee. The Executable Balance is consumed during execution, while funds are distributed to the network’s Executors as rewards. Developers can design applications that fund their Executable Balance through revenue models like user payments, fees, or even sponsorships.

The reverse gas model enhances accessibility and usability, eliminating user-side complexity while promoting scalability and efficiency for dApp creators. This makes Gear.exe particularly suited for applications that prioritize user adoption and real-time responsiveness, such as financial services, gaming platforms, and enterprise solutions.

Real-Time Computation Result and Pre-confirmations​

For latency-sensitive applications, Gear.exe introduces its own technical implementation of a well-known pre-confirmation mechanism. This feature allows developers to access computation results immediately after execution, even before the transaction is finalized on-chain. By bridging the gap between decentralized security and Web2-like responsiveness, this capability enables the development of cutting-edge applications in finance, competitive gaming, and other industries.

No Own Blocks​

Unlike traditional Layer 2 solutions such as Arbitrum and Optimism, which generate and store their own blocks, Gear.exe does not create blocks. Instead, it processes transactions and program state changes directly within its network, leveraging its decentralized compute architecture. By avoiding block creation, Gear.exe eliminates the overhead associated with block production and consensus mechanisms, reduces latency, and enables real-time computation. This design enhances scalability and allows for more efficient resource utilization, making it ideal for applications requiring instant feedback and high computational throughput.