Greg Meredith&Nash Foster: RChain – The Scalable, Concurrent and Performant Blockchain - a podcast by Epicenter Media Ltd.

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We’re joined by Greg Meredith and Nash Foster of the RChain Cooperative. A fundamentally new kind of 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 covered 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 scalability

  • 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


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This episode is hosted by Meher Roy and Sébastien Couture. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/221

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