Blockchain Scaling Dilemma: Sidechains & Cross-Chains Security Issues

Forbes June 28, 2024
David Balaban

Sidechains and cross-chains are great engineering solutions for scaling and expanding the functionality of blockchains. They open up new opportunities for interaction between different networks. However, they also bring new security risks. As sidechain and cross-chain systems grow in popularity, they attract increased attention from attackers, making issues related to the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of data increasingly relevant.

· Sidechains

Sidechain is a technology that allows you to create additional data chains connected to the main blockchain network. The idea is to improve certain characteristics or functionality of the blockchain by moving some of the operations off the base blockchain. Users can move their assets between the main blockchain and the sidechain. This allows you to improve scalability, speed...

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