Blockstream will seek to
provide Sidechain Elements as a base for the nearly 30 blockchain innovation initiatives that have been announced by major financial institutions in the past few months.
Not exact matches
We are convinced that blockchain technology has the ability to transform not only financial services but also other industries... We value Blockstream's open source approach and its
sidechain technology, which will allow interoperability between different chains and
provide critical long - term success in this sector.
The Liquid network is a federated
sidechain designed to
provide new features and benefits to exchanges, users, and businesses by leveraging a
sidechain which will process transactions more quickly and efficiently than the main Bitcoin blockchain.
They
provide no functionality whatsoever, or the functionality they could
provide could very easily be implemented via a
sidechain.»
Greg Maxwell recently
provided an update on the current status on
sidechains from Blockstream's perspective.
However,
sidechains by themselves do not fundamentally change the scaling limitations of a global broadcast system, though they should
provide security partitioning if an experimental chain should fail.»
We also recognize the inherent blocksize increase
provided by Segregated Witness as a positive development towards on - chain scaling, but this is dwarfed by the exponential scaling which Lightning Networks and
Sidechains, which are optimized by the adoption of Segwit, will
provide.
It's also a boon for businesses that need the extra security
provided by
sidechains but don't want to build a custom blockchain from scratch.
Stratis» goal is become the one - stop shop to allow businesses to create blockchain applications and this will be done through the implementation of
sidechains provided by the Stratis infrastructure.
As mentioned previously, Stratis will be the go - to hub for creating blockchain applications on
sidechains provided by the infrastructure.
Litecoin can be viewed almost as a
sidechain to Bitcoin;
providing relief to the network when there is too much traffic.
Since
sidechains need to work both ways in order to be functional, and Bitcoin can not
provide a withdraw function for the secondary asset to be converted back into Bitcoin (yet), a semi-decentralized alternative for a 2 - way peg was found: Federated pegs.
The new
sidechain is still in beta with limited distribution, but it comes with the promise to
provide some serious scaling benefits to the Bitcoin network.
Lisk
provides opportunities for building decentralised applications on
sidechains using JavaScript.
CommerceBlock launched in 2016,
provides services for creating private and secure paper trails for business, leveraging the blockchain via parallel private «
sidechains.»