Convex Reader
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Convex 0.8.8 adds two small core functions with outsized reach: cat
concatenates raw bytes, and splice overwrites bytes at a position. On
most platforms these would be mundane. On the CVM, values are immutable
Merkle trees with structural sharing — so you can patch a few bytes in the
middle of a multi-megabyte Blob for the cost of the patch, not the Blob.
We’re no longer waiting for autonomous agents.
We’re waiting for economically powerful autonomous agents — agents that can own assets, sign contracts, trade 24/7, lend, borrow, contract, and coordinate with other agents without ever asking a human for permission.
The Reader converts text into data. It's a key component in making Convex based apps work effectively in multiple ways:
(transfer #101 1000000) is transformed into trees of code ready for execution on the CVM.application/cvx.cvx files like [{:name "Bob" :age 42} {:name "Sarah" :age 37}]In preparation for Protonet, we've been putting the final touches on the Reader. So what's new?
Convex 0.7.11 introduces scoped actors: instead of calling an actor by
its address alone, you can call it as [#1234 :USD] — an address plus a
scope value the actor interprets however it likes. One deployed contract
can now serve an unbounded family of assets, markets or resources, each
addressed as a first-class value.
On most smart contract platforms, the compiler is somebody else's problem. You write Solidity, run a toolchain on your laptop, and submit the resulting bytecode to the chain. The chain never sees your source code. Convex works differently: the compiler is part of the CVM. Submit source, and it is expanded and compiled on-chain, in consensus, metered by juice like any other computation.