It is a platform for distributed smart contracts, much like Ethereum, but the fact that it's a bitcoin
sidechain means that it will use the bitcoin currency by default.
Not exact matches
This
means you can create your own
sidechain projects using the Stratis» algorithm without being worried about its safety;
That
means sidechains or other blockchains that might be utilizing POS, POW, DPOS, and POC can all talk to each other and with NULS.
In other words, splitting sections of the network onto various
sidechains does not necessarily
mean that Bitcoin can then scale to an infinitely larger number of transactions per second.
Though this might seem like a novel direction for
sidechains, onlookers might be more excited about Blockstream's «other» idea for the technology: to allow the
means to move tokens between public blockchains with different rule sets without having to trust an intermediary.
This
means that if they fail, only they fail and what remains is a small
sidechain entry on the Lisk mainchain.
At the same time, the equal number of LSK tokens will be replicated on the
sidechain and can be used by yourself as normally, which
means that in the case of a badly written
sidechain or blockchain application, all LSK tokens are safe and can be retrieved easily by the
sidechain owner.
This
means that they would be able to either offer smart contract execution as a service, or execute smart contracts locally inside their
sidechain, and at that point developers won't need to plug into the Ethereum network anymore.
This
means that the
sidechain needs to be secured by a set of nodes that are only running in the jurisdictions where the blockchain application features are legal.
In simplified terms, this
means that
sidechains carry their own data sets / functionality which is tied into the parent chain.