Introduction

Why use ORBS-VM?

Current smart contracts are limited in various ways, including:

• Certain logic is too complex to implement on smart contracts in any current blockchain.

• Implementing this type of logic outside of the blockchain requires using centralized infrastructure.

• Smart contracts are not able to trigger calls to themselves.

Orbs VBM solves these problems and offers the following benefits:

• Allows interaction between several blockchains.

• Maintains fast cache logic.

• Provides decentralized backend infrastructure that complements your Dapp smart contracts.

Please note that you should only use ORBS-VM if you have determined that ORBS-Lambda does not fulfill your Dapp's requirements. For simpler functions, ORBS-Lambda is much easier to set up and maintain.

Key benefits of using ORBS-VM

• Your Dapp can benefit from running on a decentralized, permissionless network, instead of centralized services.

• Your container is always UP, for as long the Orbs network continues to function.

• Your Dapp can utilize the Orbs Network's consensus decisions and data. For example, you can select a particular Orbs Guardian node within ORBS-VM to perform the next action, or elect to split the computed data among several nodes to distribute computation.

How it works

You can configure your Dapp's logic to run on ORBS-VM in a few steps:

• Wrap your entire logic onto a single docker image

• Push the docker image to a public docker repo repo such as https://hub.docker.com/

• Open a pull request in the v3-ORBS-VM github repository, as described here

• Your container is then gradually deployed to the Orbs Network.