Today AntChain announced that it is open sourcing its blockchain interoperability solution AntChain Bridge. AntChain is part of Ant Group which operates Alipay, China’s largest wallet payment app.
It’s an unusual move for the group as the core permissioned AntChain blockchain is one of the few entirely proprietary blockchains. Many blockchains in China are open source, such as FISCO BCOS associated with Huawei and WeChat founder Tencent, Xuperchain from search engine Baidu and retailer JD.com’s JD Chain.
The AntChain Bridge source code has been published on GitHub, and the examples shared enable interoperability with Ethereum-compatible chains using the Solidity smart contract language. According to the company, the solution supports the newly released international standard for cross chain transactions published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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