This document compares Triquan Chain (泉链) — a gasless, permissioned Hyperledger Besu chain with national-cryptography (SM2/3/4) support — with FISCO BCOS, China's leading domestic consortium blockchain, framing Triquan as a compliance-first modernization of enterprise blockchain.
Key takeaway: FISCO BCOS represents enterprise blockchain "1.0" — a monolithic system on a deprecated Oracle JDK 1.8 toolchain (end-of-life since 2019). Triquan runs the modern Ethereum stack (Besu 26.6.1 on JDK 25, Prague EVM) with a gasless UX and national cryptography — better suited to regulated, user-facing applications while fully meeting Chinese regulatory requirements.
01 Platform Overview
Attribute
FISCO BCOS
Triquan Chain
Launch year
2017
2026 (live, producing blocks)
Initiator / operator
Jinlianmeng (WeBank, Tencent, Huawei, SZSE)
Zhejiang Weihan Technology Co., Ltd.
Engine / runtime
C++ / Java (Oracle JDK 1.8)
Hyperledger Besu 26.6.1 / OpenJDK 25
Architecture
Monolithic permissioned consortium chain
EVM-compatible, permissioned, gasless
Ecosystem
5,000+ institutions, 100,000+ members
Inherits the global Ethereum ecosystem
02 Detailed Technical Comparison
2.1 Architecture & Design
Aspect
FISCO BCOS
Triquan
Virtual machine
Custom EVM implementation
Standard Ethereum EVM (Prague)
Tooling
Proprietary, requires retraining
Solidity / Hardhat / Foundry / Remix / ethers.js
Upgrade path
Platform-dependent releases
Follows the Ethereum roadmap (EIPs)
Interoperability
Limited (WeCross)
Native Ethereum interoperability
FISCO BCOS's custom EVM is not fully compatible with standard Ethereum tooling; Triquan inherits the entire Ethereum developer ecosystem — millions already know Solidity and its tools, with no retraining.
2.2 Consensus
Aspect
FISCO BCOS
Triquan
Algorithms
PBFT, Raft (2017-era)
QBFT (IBFT 2.0 successor)
Finality
Immediate
Immediate
Validator governance
View-change
On-chain voting, no restart
Both offer BFT consensus with immediate finality. Besu's QBFT is widely adopted, well documented, and supports live validator governance — partners can be voted in without a restart.
2.3 Smart Contracts & Development
Aspect
FISCO BCOS
Triquan
Contract languages
Solidity, C++, WBC-Liquid
Solidity, Vyper
EVM compatibility
Partial (custom extensions)
Full (standard Ethereum)
Development tools
Proprietary Java SDK, Console
Hardhat, Foundry, Remix
A critical differentiator. FISCO BCOS ties developers to a Java SDK on Oracle JDK 1.8 and proprietary workflows; any Ethereum developer can build on Triquan immediately, no retraining required.
2.4 Cryptography & Compliance
Capability
FISCO BCOS
Triquan
National crypto SM2/3/4
Supported
Native support (wrapped)
ECDSA / hashing
secp256k1 / Keccak256, SM3
secp256k1 / Keccak256, SM3
Transport security
Standard + national SSL
Standard + national SSL
Both support China's SM2/SM3/SM4 — a hard domestic requirement. Triquan's advantage is native wrapping and cleaner integration while the execution layer stays globally interoperable.
2.5 Java / JDK Dependency
Aspect
FISCO BCOS
Triquan
JDK requirement
Oracle JDK 1.8 (strict)
OpenJDK 25 (current)
Status
End-of-life since April 2019
Current, actively security-patched
FISCO BCOS's most damning limitation. Oracle JDK 1.8 (EOL 2019) brings security, compliance, recruitment and operational risk; Triquan's OpenJDK 25 avoids all of it.
2.6 Deployment & OS
Aspect
FISCO BCOS
Triquan
OS support
CentOS 7.2+ / Ubuntu 16.04+ only (both EOL)
Any modern Linux (Ubuntu 24.04, RHEL 9)
Containers
Limited
Full Docker / Kubernetes
2.7 Gas Model & UX
Aspect
FISCO BCOS
Triquan
Gas model
Metered
Gasless
B2B2C viability
Poor — users dislike fees
Excellent — seamless
Triquan's biggest UX advantage. For B2B2C (issuing credentials / notarizing for individuals), metered gas is a dealbreaker; Triquan's gasless model gives end-users zero friction.
2.8 Efficiency — On-Demand Blocks
Unlike most chains that mint a block every few seconds regardless of activity, Triquan produces blocks on demand — fast under load, quiet when idle — suppressing empty blocks and cutting idle-period data by roughly 95%, on commodity hardware.
03 Summary Comparison
Dimension
FISCO BCOS
Triquan
Advantage
Architecture
Monolithic, proprietary
Modular, standard EVM
Triquan
Consensus
PBFT/Raft (2017)
QBFT (modern)
Triquan
Performance
20k–200k TPS
TBD
FISCO BCOS
EVM compatibility
Partial
Full (Prague)
Triquan
JDK
Oracle 1.8 (EOL)
OpenJDK 25
Triquan
OS support
EOL only
Any modern Linux
Triquan
National crypto
Supported (bolt-on)
Native (wrapped)
Triquan
Gas model
Metered
Gasless
Triquan
Efficiency
Fixed interval
On-demand (~95% idle cut)
Triquan
Ecosystem maturity
Extensive (China)
Emerging (global)
FISCO BCOS
Production scale
300+ deployments
Limited
FISCO BCOS
04 Regulatory Positioning
Filing
FISCO BCOS
Triquan
ICP filing
Compliant
Compliant
Public Security filing
Compliant
Compliant
CAC blockchain filing
Already filed
Highly feasible
"A modern, EVM-compatible trusted-record platform with a gasless UX and national cryptography — the compliance-friendly evolution of enterprise blockchain, avoiding the legacy JDK and OS constraints of older consortium chains, operated by Zhejiang Weihan Technology Co., Ltd."
05 Conclusion
Do not position Triquan as a "competitor" to FISCO BCOS — position it as the next generation, solving the UX, developer-experience and legacy-technology problems its 2017-era architecture cannot. For regulated-record use cases, Triquan's gasless model and modern stack make it a superior choice, fully compliant with Chinese regulations.
Triquan Chain (泉链) is a fully permissioned, gasless, enterprise-grade blockchain operated by Zhejiang Weihan Technology Co., Ltd., built for regulated records — traceability, notarization, transaction reporting, digital identity and asset digitization — where the operator retains full control and can provide a supervisory node to the competent authorities.
On demand (~5 s under load); one empty block / 30 s when idle
Finality
Immediate / deterministic (no reorgs)
Gas model
Gasless — zero base fee, zero minimum gas price
Native unit
UNIT (internal accounting unit; no monetary value, non-transferable, hidden in explorer)
Token economy
None — no issuance, mining rewards, trading or speculation
02 Technical Architecture
2.1 Execution & Runtime
Execution client Hyperledger Besu 26.6.1 (Apache 2.0, Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust) — the same client family as JPMorgan Onyx and ConsenSys Quorum. Runtime OpenJDK 25, current and actively security-patched. Virtual machine is the standard Ethereum EVM (Prague), fully compatible with the global Ethereum toolchain.
2.2 Consensus & Finality
Algorithm QBFT (the modern successor to IBFT 2.0), tolerating up to ⌊(n−1)/3⌋ faulty validators with safety and immediate finality. Validators are added/removed by on-chain vote (no restart, no fork). Currently a single operator validator, expandable to a multi-validator consortium.
2.3 Access Control (Permissioning)
Triquan enforces two layers of operator-controlled permissioning: an account allowlist — only approved accounts may transact, all others rejected at the pool and at block construction; and a node allowlist — only approved node identities (enodes) may peer. This makes it a closed, admission-controlled network: no anonymous participation, no open write access. The public RPC exposes read-only methods only; write ports are firewalled off the public internet.
Storage engine RocksDB with a Merkle Patricia Trie world state. Data localization — all nodes and data hosted on operator-controlled infrastructure within the operator's jurisdiction. Querying via off-chain indexing (block explorer), decoupled from the ledger. Append-only, cryptographically linked ledger; records cannot be altered retroactively.
03 Efficiency — On-Demand Blocks
Triquan produces blocks on demand — fast under load, quiet when idle. During idle periods it suppresses empty blocks and reduces network-generated data by roughly 95%, running comfortably on commodity hardware and lowering both cost and storage footprint.
04 Regulatory Supervision
Supervisory node — a dedicated read-only / monitoring node can be provisioned for the competent authorities, giving real-time, tamper-evident visibility into all on-chain records without write access.
Auditability — every transaction and record is permanently and verifiably logged; any record can be independently verified by recomputing its cryptographic hash against the on-chain value.
Operator accountability — Zhejiang Weihan Technology Co., Ltd. is the single accountable entity for the network, its participants and content-moderation obligations.
05 Endpoints & Security
Block explorer
https://explorer.triquan.com
RPC (read)
https://rpc.triquan.com
Exposure
Read-only JSON-RPC (ETH/NET/WEB3/TRACE); writes are admission-controlled by on-chain account permissioning; admin/consensus/permissioning methods not exposed
TLS on all public endpoints; write/consensus/admin ports firewalled from the public internet; account- and node-level permissioning; deterministic finality (no reorg risk); no token economy (removes speculation and financial-instrument risk).