https://blockstream.com/2018/10/10/liquid-launch.htmlWe are excited to announce that the Liquid Network is now live. As the worlds first production Bitcoin sidechain, the Liquid Network provides fast, secure, and confidential transactions to address the needs of exchanges, brokers, market makers, and financial institutions around the world.
The Liquid blockchain went live with the first block generated on September 27, 2018 at 1:29 UTC. 23 of the cryptocurrency industrys biggest players participated in the launch as Liquid members, including Altonomy, Atlantic Financial, Bitbank, Bitfinex, Bitmax, BitMEX, Bitso, BTCBOX, BTSE, Buull Exchange, DGroup, Coinone, Crypto Garage, GOPAX (operated by Streami), Korbit, L2B Global, OKCoin, The Rock Trading, SIX Digital Exchange, Unocoin, Xapo, XBTO, and Zaif. Together, these members comprise the Liquid Network, ensuring users assets are protected through a geographically diverse network with no single point of failure.
1minute blocks,
around 10x more blockspace but around 10x bigger transactions due to a lot more Zero Knowledge Proofs with ECDL based ZKPs for confidential transactions and confidential assets.
23 participants, not all of who have announced yet. 15 of them are running blocksigners. 11 of 15 multisig in the current version. (DPoS)
Liquid is built using Elements which is open source.
https://github.com/ElementsProject/elements