The First Completely Decentralized Sidechain Protocol On The Market?

[ZenFrenchManon]

Horizen Sidechain Solution – Zendoo Is Live On Testnet

Zendoo is the first completely decentralized sidechain protocol on the market, which extends the network from a cryptocurrency to a privacy-preserving platform that scales for commercial applications

Post about Zendoo: https://blog.horizen.global/horizen-sidechain-solution-zendoo-is-live-on-testnet/

Whitepaper: https://www.horizen.global/assets/files/Horizen-Sidechain-Zendoo-A_zk-SNARK-Verifiable-Cross-Chain-Transfer-Protocol.pdf

What do you think about this solution?

Did you have a chance to test it?

[MedaR]

What makes Horizen Zendoo different from other sidechain solutions:

- 114000 line of code came directly from Horizen developers.
- 1.130 files
- Ginger lib, all tools you need to build a sidechain in one box (SDK)
- Built on the robust infrastructure, supported by the biggest node network in the industry  
- Zendoo allows the verification of sidechains by the mainchain, without knowing the internal structure of the sidechain.

What are advantages over the existing solutions?

Main difference is that our solution is based on zero-knowledge proofs. Together with Horizen’s generic cross-chain transfer protocol (CCTP) it provides a secure solution, where mainchain doesn't know anything about particular Sidechain consensus protocol and internal rules in general.
Moreover our SDK provides CCTP implementation out of the box as well as implemented network, storage levels, Consensus protocol and flexible Node implementation, that give developers the possibility to easily plug their custom business logic to it.

Can a developer take this and use it for BTC one day?

it is open source already.
It requires a lot of changes in BTC core. Zen core has more than 25 thousands lines of changes. And code  keeps changing...So theoretically it's possible, depending on BTC community and developers.


Anyone interested to do a cross comparative table?