Alephium Ecosystem

Author	Hongchao Liu
Discussions-To	https://github.com/ChainAgnostic/namespaces/pull/117
Status	Draft
Type	Informational
Created	2024-06-19
Requires	CAIP-2, CAIP-10, CAIP-19

Namespace for Alephium Blockchains

This document defines the applicability of CAIP schemes to the blockchains of the Alephium ecosystem.

Alephium uses the stateful UTXO model where assets are managed by UTXOs while contract states are managed using account-based model. Alephium is also a sharded blockchain, its state is divided into groups, with separate chains responsible for processing transactions from one group to another. Alephium’s mainnet currently has 4 groups and 16 blockchains, more groups and blockchains can be added to increase the throughput.

Understanding these concepts is helpful for interoperability with other account-based or classic UTXO namespaces.

Syntax

The namespace alephium refers to the Alephium blockchain platform.

References

• Official website
• Alephium Documentation
• Stateful UTXO
• Blockflow

Copyright

Copyright and related rights waived via CC0.

Citation

Please cite this document as:

Hongchao Liu, "namespaces/alephium: Alephium Ecosystem [DRAFT]," Chain Agnostic Namespaces, alephium, June 2024 / . [Online serial]. Available: https://github.com/ChainAgnostic/namespaces/alephium.md