Thats not true! Quant Networks Overledger system has been doing this for a while and you must know it... how do you see yourselves vs their tech btw?
Quant runs centralized servers that users have access to... Blocknet is decentralized across hundreds of "Service Nodes" owned and operated by random people and projects around the world. This maximizes uptime as well as security through decentralized consensus per the user's liking.
Blocknet's XRouter also allows Service Nodes to create and offer custom API endpoints for users in a completely permissionless fashion - if you were wanting to provide the ability to launch an asset on the Syscoin blockchain, with XRouter you could spend 2 minutes creating a custom plugin to provide this service via your own Service Node. For Quant, you'd have to ask the Quant project to add this feature to their product offering.
Blocknet being fully decentralized is one of the major differences... and an
extremely important difference at that.
Thats not really true either, since Overledger will be hosted on a large number of cloud services AND they will soon offer the possibility for everyone to host their own gateways (see the Utility token pdf release). Btw, do the Service Nodes need to do any form of consensus or are they just there to relay transactions?
On your second point, Overledger has planned to open source the connectors to the various blockchains so each and everyone will be able to build and publish connectors in the future. Is there any drawback though re Xrouter not having to go through this type of work? 2min sounds nice, but is that providing 100% interop?
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