The secrets of the unusually successful Provenance Blockchain - Part 2 Technical

Описание: Part 2 of 2 of a Future of Finance interview with Anthony Moro, chief executive officer, and Ira Miller, vice president, engineering, at Provenance Blockchain.

• The Provenance Blockchain holds that the blockchain interoperability problem will be solved by the rationalisation of multiple blockchains into an oligopoly of no more than five Layer 1s, which will provide the foundation for specialist services composed of functionality written into the protocols as well as smart contracts.

• Current interoperability solutions are effective at moving tokens (or at least the value that tokens represent) between blockchains but they have yet to solve more complex questions arising from off-chain information associated with the tokenised assets, such as liens, concentration limits and mis-selling restrictions.

• The Provenance Blockchain takes the view that smart contracts, including third party smart contracts, are useful for experimenting and moving quickly, but it is preferable to fold any smart functionality that proves to have multiple or common uses into the blockchain protocol.

• By concentrating on finance only, the Provenance Blockchain aims to avoid the congestion and down-time associated with generic blockchains and manage the risks associated with un-intermediated custody and settlement and reliance on smart contracts to buy, sell and hold digital assets and collect entitlements.

• The Provenance Blockchain aims to eliminate uncertainty by achieving deterministic rather than probabilistic settlement of transactions so that users can be confident that all transactions certified as valid by consensus and added to a block, within four to five seconds, are never dependent on subsequent blocks.

• Although the Provenance Blockchain is a public Layer 1 blockchain, it incorporates private “zone” versions of the protocol where individual financial firms can control interactions with counterparties on the public version of the protocol or hold information that they do not wish to disclose publicly.

• The Provenance Blockchain has issued a native utility token (HASH) that is used by holders to pay for transactions on the network such as settlement of trades (“gas fees”) and to stake their claim (Provenance is a Proof of Stake blockchain) to participate in the earnings and strategy of the network.