Fractal goes live on Mainnet

Fractal aims to scale Runes and BRC-20s with a novel consensus mechanism

Hi Bitcoin Builders,

Fractal Mainnet went live this week. Fractal aims to enhance Bitcoin scalability without compromising its integrity.

From Fractal’s docs: “Fractal leverages a recursive blockchain computing system that virtualizes Bitcoin Core, enabling infinite scalability while maintaining full consensus consistency with the Bitcoin main network.”

Bitcoin Layers describes Fractal:

Fractal is a Bitcoin sidechain purpose built to scale bitcoin-native applications like Runes and BRC-20s. It leverages a novel consensus mechanism similar to merge-mining.

Layer 1 and Meta Protocols:

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Layers:

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