The first concept of a sidechain was published in an academic paper on the Oct. 22, 2014, by Adam Back, the inventor of HashCash and current CEO of Blockstream. Also involved were a host of legendary ...

Processing a compressor’s external sidechain input opens up a huge range of ways to tweak its behaviour. Here are a few suggestions… When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Drivechain is an implementation which allows for the creation of Bitcoin sidechains with a true two-way peg. This would allow Bitcoin holders to move their coins to any sidechain they choose. Doing ...

The idea of sidechains as a scaling and feature extension mechanism for Bitcoin is a very old concept. A kind of basic “ancestor” idea of sidechains, merge mined chains, even goes back to before ...

XRPL EVM sidechain: connecting XRP to Ethereum’s world Ripple’s EVM sidechain brings smart contract functionality to the XRP Ledger, which is built with Peersyst and integrated via the Axelar bridge, ...

A long-awaited EVM sidechain for XRPL is scheduled to launch this quarter. The sidechain has been in development since 2021. A public testnet version has attracted significant developer interest.

Blockchain software company Peersyst has launched an Ethereum-compatible sidechain on the XRP Ledger’s devnet, Peersyst and RippleX announced Monday. Devnets, or developer networks, are separate from ...

Neo blockchain has announced the development of a new Ethereum virtual machine (EVM)-compatible sidechain. An EVM-compatible blockchain can execute smart contracts written for Ethereum without changes ...

In late November 2019, the Bitcoin-based DApp network Echo announced the launch of a Bitcoin sidechain on its blockchain testnet. It framed the release as a critical step in its mission to establish ...