Paul Brody is the global innovation blockchain Leader at EY. When we sit down inside of EY and discuss what the biggest risks are to the future of the blockchain industry, one topic that comes up again and again is the high rate at which key blockchains are forking and the possibility that future forks will split apart large blockchains with critical mass.
If public blockchains splinter into many different camps, one of their key advantages over networks of private blockchains will disappear.
Right now forking a public blockchain is as easy as copy and paste, and it happens all the time as a means to "Resolve" governance disputes.
Links between those assets - be they real estate, diamonds, gold or U.S. dollars in escrow accounts - and the blockchain tokens will only be valid on the primary network.
If they don't already, the purchase agreements for these tokens and assets will need to be quite specific about what constitutes the "Primary" or "Original" blockchain on which the token is located, and external firms involved in attestation and audit will have to agree to and link up those plans.
The role of external firms will be particularly important going ahead. As blockchains are more and more linked to ownership of real-world assets, verifying the link to those assets is going to be important to investor confidence.
Those users will be closely tied to their investment assets, which if they represent off-chain items, will have one and only one valid public blockchain representation.
As a result, it will become more and more important for the major public blockchains to develop robust governance models that are able to manage change and incorporate the views of stakeholders.
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The Age of Endless Blockchain Forks Is Coming to an End
Publié le May 7, 2018
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