Episode 221 Greg Meridith & Nash Foster Rchain
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We're joined by Greg Meredith and Nash Foster of the RChain Cooperative. A fundamentally kind of new blockchain platform, RChain is rooted in a formal model of concurrent and decentralized computation. Powered by the Rho Virtual Machine, and secured by Casper proof-of-stake, RCain is partitioned, or shareded by default, forming a network of coordinated and parallel blockchains. The project, which is formed as a coop, leverages correct-by-construction software development to produce a concurrent, compositional, and massively scalable blockchain.
Topics discussed in this episode:
How Rchain spun out of the Synereo project
The primary objectives RChain seeks to establish
The fundamental principles of RChain and RLang
The concepts of concurrency and parallelism in simple terms
How building concurrent systems implies scallability
The unique features of Casper consensus in the context of RChain
The importance of namespaces in RChain
Why this project was started as a cooperative
The current status of the project and roapmap