The Vision
Consider a single industry. In the insurance industry, the most basic blockchain is for insurance policies. Each company has their policies on their own node and grants permissions for some parties to access them. There may be a separate blockchain for claims which needs to interoperate with the policy blockchain. RiskBlock, the insurance industry alliance, is implementing a network that aims to integrate these kinds of separate blockchains in a modular way. But to be able to combine multiple potential flavors (Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, R3 Corda), they’ve had to create an additional blockchain layer that translates between them.Article continues …

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