Blocknet Announces First Inter-Blockchain Data Transfers
Blocknet, a decentralized applications platform designed to facilitate cooperation and feature sharing amongst participating crypto currencies, has announced the first successful inter-chain transfers of data between nodes on separate block chains. The announcement is an important first step towards the development of interoperability between block chains. The end goal of this technology is to build a protocol through which a user of one crypto currency can use their wallet and nodes on their coin's network to initiate a transaction on another block chain. This would enable developers to....
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