The idea of sidechains as a scaling and feature extension mechanism for Bitcoin is a very old concept. A kind of basic “ancestor” idea of sidechains, merge mined chains, even goes back to before ...

Web3 has had severe scalability concerns. But application sidechains have emerged as a viable answer to crypto’s most persistent problem. By far, the innovation with the most impact in the Web3 world ...

Appchains, sidechains and layer 2s (L2s) are off-chain scaling solutions. While they are all designed to optimize the underlying blockchain’s usability by enhancing its speed and scalability while ...