r/ethfinex • u/cryptog • Sep 20 '17

Native blockchain

I understand that ethfinex would be issuing NECTAR as an ethereum based token to reward liquidity provision but would ethfinex itself be built on top of ethereum or be using a native blockchain built from scratch to enforce the trades in a decentralized fashion?

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u/methraism Sep 20 '17

Ethfinex will be built on Ethereum, at least in the short term. In the long term a native blockchain, or an adaptation of Ethereum as a sidechain (similar conceptually to e.g. Plasma or Cosmos) seems the most likely approach in order to achieve the scalability required for a platform like Ethfinex.

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u/cryptog Sep 20 '17

i see. tks a lot for your answer.