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7 Jun, 6 tweets, 1 min read
Today I introduced my vision for adding federated sidechains to the XRP Ledger which means a lot of things but essentially that anyone who wants to, can run a sidechain to the XRPL. 1/6 dev.to/ripplexdev/a-v…
The “federator” is software that acts as a bridge between at least two instances of the XRP Ledger, i.e. the XRPL mainnet and one or more sidechains. 2/6
This concept would allow each sidechain to have its own ledger and transactions, as well as a federation system that allows XRP and issued tokens (BTC, fiat, anything really) to move from one chain to another. 3/6
Doing so could, in theory, enable developers to implement features (like smart contract functionality) OFF of the XRPL mainnet - meaning less risk of harming the network while maintaining its existing feature set, faster deployment, and access to real assets. 4/6
A number of things would need to happen in order to make federated sidechains a reality, including but not limited to: building the federator software itself, adding new features to the XRPL server software that would activate sidechains, etc. 5/6
Of course, this vision is a starting point. I look forward to any/all feedback from the XRPL developer community on ways to improve the proposal and make sidechains on XRPL feasible. 6/6

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