March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
656 pages
20h 9m
English
Content preview from Mastering Blockchain - Second Edition
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Sidechains
Sidechains can improve scalability indirectly by allowing many sidechains to run along with the main blockchain while allowing usage of perhaps comparatively less secure and faster sidechains to perform transactions but still pegged with the main blockchain. The core idea of sidechains is called a two-way peg, which allows transfer of coins from a parent chain to a sidechain and vice versa.