Chia新公布的CAT是什么？-币圈快讯网

9月16日，Chia官方新的一期AMA（即Ask Me Anything。在reddit上很多人用AMA表示可以问我任何问题。）有提到新的名称：CAT。

CAT很多人会联想到前阵子爆火的动物币，以为这是猫的翻译，实际上CAT是之前彩币（Coloured Coins）的新命名，官方的解释是因为Colour这一词在部分国家地区涉及种族歧视，为了以后避免一些麻烦，所以直接改名CAT（Chia Asset Token 资产代币）。

所以不是谣传的那样，官方新发了猫币，根据网上相关资料解释：

彩色币允许个人、金融机构、企业和政府发行链上资产，这些资产继承了 Chia Network 区块链的智能交易能力，并依赖于时空证明提供的全球去中心化安全验证。ERC-20 代币是目前最被认可的彩币形式，但其局限性很大。他们所依赖的 Solidity 智能合约存在着安全风险。
此外，对于终端用户来说，它们并不像是 Ethereum 区块链的原生部分，而且需要钱包和数字货币交易所单独启用每个资产。
最近的安全研究表明，它们也很容易在交易所被伪造。Chialisp 彩色币继承了 Chialisp 的所有能力，这使得它们更适合高合规性的资产发行，并使它们能够更原生地适用于奇亚钱包。

所以，CAT跟XCH大概为ERC20/ERC721和ETH的关系。

附上chia官网23号的一篇文章（中文版在尾末）：

Chia Token Standard Naming

TL;DR: The Chia token standard is going to be called CAT1

We’re in the process of making a real standard for tokens which will guarantee interoperability for developers who follow it, and it needs a name. In the past we’ve used the term ‘coloured coins’ in our documentation and code to refer to tokens built on top of Chia. This has the disadvantage that it’s an esoteric bit of jargon, refers to a general concept rather than our specific implementation, and ‘coloured’ is a loaded term in many parts of the world.

We have now spent millions of dollars with a brand marketing firm, gone through extensive creative processes and… nah just kidding, I did some research, ran a few surveys through our employees and made a decision. Here’s the new glossary:

Glossary

asset - a thing which can be owned. Most assets in the world have nothing to do with Chia.

token - a representation of an underlying asset, including in this case a set of coins on a chain

asset token - a divisible and fungible token, as opposed to a non-fungible token (NFT) which is less featureful

coin - a thing which exists on the Chia blockchain, analogous to a UTXO in Bitcoin

token coin - a coin which represents an underlying asset. In Chia the identity of coins changes even as the capability of being the underlying asset keeps getting passed between them

asset coin - a coin which specifically represents an asset token as opposed to a non-fungible token, or NFT

NFT coin - a coin represents an NFT. It usually has a parent which was the same NFT and a child which is also the same NFT.

CAT1 - the first Chia Asset Token standard. We may make a CAT2 in the future but it will be a while, if ever.

CAT - A Catch-all term for CAT1, CAT1.1 or CAT2 or possibly some other CAT standard in the future.

CAT1 token - a token which followers the CAT1 standard in its implementation

CAT token - a term which doesn’t specify which CAT standard is being followed. Also used if you’re being more informal or are just too lazy to type the 1. If you’re being really informal or lazy you can use the lowercase cat. You can also just call it a CAT since ‘CAT token’ is short for ‘chia asset token token’ which is valid but sounds weird.

CAT coin - a single coin which is part of a CAT token

X - a hypothetical name of a CAT token

X coin - a coin which specifically represents part of the token X. Multiple X coins can be called a litter.

Chia 代币标准命名

太长不想读得直接看这：Chia代币标准以后叫CAT1。

我们正在给Token搞一个真正的标准，以前在各种地方我们把它叫作“彩币”，但这个名字有一个缺陷，在这个世界的一些地方，这是一个不好的词（意指种族歧视）。

我们花了几百万美元找了一家公司帮我们起了名（开玩笑），以下是新的词表（请大家背下来）

词表

资产：可以拥有的东西，世界上大多数资产跟Chia没关系，比如你的房子。

代币：链上的一些硬盘，比如屎币

资产代币：代表NFT的…………就是NFT对应的币，比如ETH上发的NFT

硬币：比如UTXO中的bitcoin，或Chia链上的XCH