Canopy is a recursive framework to build blockchains (the Canopy Stack) and the first (of many) decentralized networks to host those blockchains (the Canopy blockchain). The Canopy Stack offers developers the benefits of all blockchain layers in a single, easy to understand framework. The Canopy blockchain seeds the layerless future with the first recursive security root: a decentralized network that allows new projects to launch like a smart contract, but grow into a fully independent L0 to host future projects.
To learn more about Canopy, check out our docs or Whitepaper. To learn more about our Go implementation of the Canopy client, check out Github.
By relying on the current security architecture of web3, developers make many compromises, from sovereignty to censorship. We believe that Web3 applications without full sovereignty are just Web2 apps with bad UX. Canopy addresses this by eliminating security and scaling bottlenecks, and maintaining interoperability and composability, solving the blockchain trilemma and enabling scalable, autonomous, and secure ecosystems.
Canopy is built for new and existing applications. Canopy enables the creation of side-chains and interoperability tools, with functionality only limited to your imagination. Canopy can extend the functionality of your existing application, or act as an entirely new version. Need a scalable EVM on the side of your application? Canopy can do that. Missing incentives from your current protocol? Canopy can read your chain and build in the missing incentives as a modular side-chain.
Anyone can leave their mark on the Canopy Network! Validators connect to the network like any other proof-of-stake blockchain, and opt-in to securing one or more of the chains of Canopy Network. For more information, please visit our node runner docs.
Launching an application on Canopy is as simple as deploying a smart contract. Just fork the Canopy repo, add your utility, update the built-in web wallet and block explorer with the config file, and you’re instantly a Nested Chain that is compatible with the rest of the ecosystem. Learn more on how to get started in our builder docs.
Additionally, we welcome contributions to tooling, Canopy Stack, content, or simply being an evangelist for Canopy technology. Join our Discord and read our docs to dig in!
Recursiveness is the ability for a system to replicate itself within the system. A recursive blockchain is a blockchain that can both give and receive security—creating nested webs of security within the network. Because those relationships are voluntary, Nested Chains can migrate, swap roots, or detach as their ecosystem grows—nothing is locked in stone. As a Nested Chain, you can compose new features or specialized logic without duplicating the entire security apparatus.
Nested Chains maintain their interoperability after they gain sovereignty, because every chain in the Canopy ecosystem, nested or sovereign, relies on the same one-way permissionless interoperability. Because it is one way, relying on committees, switching the validator set changes the nodes, but not the code. In other words, nothing changes on how the network interacts with the ecosystem, preserving seamless interoperability. Sovereignty changes the signers, not the underlying architecture.
The Canopy blockchain issues a block reward to incentivize restaking-based validating and delegating. Beyond that, validators and delegators receive native rewards of nested chains through our unique cross-pollinating economics.
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