Post
Topic
Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: implicit cost of pegged sidechains
by
skang
on 26/09/2016, 17:54:37 UTC
...every coin on Alpha is 100% backed by a locked coin on testnet, and using the peg mechanism you can swap a testnet coin on Alpha for one of its backing coins on testnet.

Could you show the code on how alpha does this? As per my knowledge, since the bitcoin blockchain cannot be monitoring a sidechain, the way to unlock the coins on mainchain is through a  third party federation, the sort of group RSK is building & the technique they plan on using. It would be really useful, thanks.