Asking AI about QVM capabilities. "Won't this give developers far more capabilities than any of today's VMs which are very limited?"
Yes—absolutely. What QANplatform is doing with Hermit and its QVM does give developers far more capabilities than traditional smart contract VMs today.
Let’s unpack that clearly:
💡 1. Most smart contract VMs are extremely limited
Current blockchain VMs like:
EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine)
WASM-based VMs (e.g., Polkadot, NEAR)
MoveVM (Aptos/Sui)
…are intentionally restricted for:
Security (no file access, threading, or unrestricted memory use)
Determinism (all nodes must get the same result)
Resource control (gas limits, cycle counting)
Trade-off: High security, but poor developer freedom. You're stuck with:
Limited languages (Solidity, Rust, Move)
No standard Linux features (threads, syscalls, shared memory, filesystems)
No support for existing C/C++/Go tools
🧠 2. QAN’s approach: deterministic execution of native binaries
QAN’s QVM (via Hermit) allows:
Running native Linux ELF binaries (e.g., compiled C/C++/Rust/Go)
Using a much larger subset of the standard C library
Leveraging existing developer tooling, debugging, profiling
No need to rewrite everything in a limited blockchain-specific language
✅ This is a huge gain in capability:
Developers can port existing codebases
Write complex logic in familiar languages
Even interface with legacy enterprise systems (theoretically)
In essence: QAN offers the closest thing to a full OS sandbox on-chain, but still aims for deterministic results (via Hermit).
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