Blockchain Interoperability: What Do Cross-Chain Messages Do Anyway
Hacker Noon November 4, 2021
In this next edition of the ongoing series covering the Lisk interoperability solution, we discuss the salt and pepper of interoperability: cross-chain messages. In the previous blog post, Maxime Gagnebin presented the cross-chain updates, the transactions used to exchange information between chains in the Lisk ecosystem. A brief summary of this is given below, however it is highly recommended to read the entire blog post, before diving into cross-chain messages. Furthermore, Maxime also discussed cross-chain messages at Lisk.js.
If cross-chain updates are the envelopes used to deliver information from one chain to another, cross-chain messages are the actual content inside the envelope. Users can send messages from one chain to another to move tokens, send information, or in general implement...