Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains

By Adam Back, Matt Corallo, Luke Dashjr, Mark Friedenbach, Gregory Maxwell, Andrew K. Miller, Andrew Poelstra, Jorge Timón, Pieter Wuille. 2014

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A Blockchain Research Framework (2017, background): “Back et al. 2014; Buterin 2014a; Nakamoto 2008; Rosenfeld 2012; Schwartz et al. 2014; Wood 2014), but we refer readers to detailed extant discussions of these papers (Tschorsch and Scheuermann 2016; Yli-Huumo et al. 2016).”
Bitcoin and Beyond: A Technical Survey on Decentralized Digital Currencies (2016, background): “The authors of [242] take it one step further: why not send coins not only to addresses within one block chain, but also to concurrent block chains? As a result, they developed so-called side chains.”
Integrated Blockchain and Edge Computing Systems: A Survey, Some Research Issues and Challenges (2019, background): “For instance, sidechains ﬁrstly proposed in [23] as a hierarchy of lower-tier ‘consensus instances’ can potentially have a lower degree of decentralization than the top-level chain, and permit funds moved between chains via transactions.”
Architecture for Blockchain Applications (2019, background): “More information on sidechaining can be found in Back et al. (2014). Blockchains that apply sharding technology are discussed in Luu et al. (2016) and Danezis and Meiklegohn (2016). Detail of Blindcoin can be found in Valenta and Rowan (2015).”
Tendermint: Byzantine Fault Tolerance in the Age of Blockchains (2016, methodology): “We believe Tendermint achieves a superior design and implementation compared to previous approaches, including that of the classical academic literature [31, 17, 75] as well as Bitcoin [71] and its derivatives [105, 4, 55] by combining the right elements of each to achieve a practical balance of sec”
A Secure Sharding Protocol For Open Blockchains (2016, background): “Two prominent examples are lightning-network [42] and Sidechains [43].”
On Scaling Decentralized Blockchains - (A Position Paper) (2016, background): “Merged mining techniques [15] allow separate chains to share their mining power, but require miner coordination.”
Bitcoin-NG: A Scalable Blockchain Protocol (2015, methodology): “In side chains, transactions can move Bitcoin from one chain to another [3].”
A Fast and Scalable Payment Network with Bitcoin Duplex Micropayment Channels (2015, background): “[2] propose dividing the single Bitcoin network into smaller networks that can operate independently.”
SoK: Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies (2015, background): “Most recently, a number of influential Bitcoin developers [8] proposed sidechains, to which bit-”
TumbleBit: An Untrusted Bitcoin-Compatible Anonymous Payment Hub (2017, methodology): “Other works use the term Contingent Payment or Atomic Swaps [27], [5].”
A systematic literature review of blockchain cyber security (2020, unknown): “Sidechain security: The sidechain technology [38], [39] has most recently emerged as a separate chain attached to the main chain, in parallel with transactions, to alleviate the challenges (mainly performance) related to main blockchains.”
A Taxonomy of Blockchain-Based Systems for Architecture Design (2017, background): “The first option is to use a sidechain [4].”
Blockstack: A Global Naming and Storage System Secured by Blockchains (2016, background): “When scaling to millions of users, as opposed to thousands, even 8MB blocks will not suffice and the community needs to look into performing registrations across multiple chains [10] and novel methods for packing multiple name operations in a single transaction (an area of future work for us).”
A Vademecum on Blockchain Technologies: When, Which, and How (2019, background): “In order to have robust but performing public blockchains, a possible solution is to use side-chains [119].”
A Survey on Consensus Mechanisms and Mining Strategy Management in Blockchain Networks (2018, background): “work with multiple ‘‘side-chains’’ [167].”
Inclusive Block Chain Protocols (2015, background): “As our work considers structural changes to the block chain structure, it is also worthwhile to mention proposals such as Side Chains [3] that are currently being discussed in the Bitcoin community.”