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.
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