NOTE TO READER: This is a class project for a product course, not a real product. But if this gets you excited, it could be!
Cardano on Cardano
Have you ever wanted to run your own Cardano mainnet blockchain? Do you want faster slot times and zero height battles? Do you want larger block and transaction sizes at the risk of slower validation?
Well, this proposal is for you. Cardano on Cardano brings the power of the Cardano UTxO model, native assets, simple native scripts, plutus scripts and even the full Cardano governance layer to your blockchain! You can tailor the governance model to be managed by a small committee of your choosing, like the bootstrap CIP-1694 model, or full blown governance with drep participation!
You get all the power of the hard fork combinator for future upgrades for free, and because of the superb modularity of the cardano code base itself, you can take advantage of new features coming to Cardano such as utxo-hd as they’re rolled out!
How’s it work? IOG started developing a partner chains framework in 2021. This framework allows SPOs to submit contracts on mainnet to use the power of their secured stake as a BFT consensus node on your custom network.
They initially used substrate for a quick prototyping experience, but now it’s matured to be able to utilize Cardano and the wealth of research papers it’s built on as well! That means you can launch your own Cardano with a different tokenomics policy, incentives, governance rules, fixed and modifiable parameters for your own chain!
Because of open source, as Cardano evolves to have more features, you can continuously update your chain to take advantage of them, or not, the choice is up to you!!!
Research Papers
TODO: Add a list of all research papers pertaining to Cardano features and partner chains SDK
Customer Testimonials
“I always wanted to build a business that could replace credit card payments for farmers markets. The limitations of Cardano mainnet were too much for me to do it, but thanks to Cardano on Cardano, I was able to make blocks in the megabytes and process smart contracts for seconds. This would completely violate the security of Cardano itself, but I was able to set the parameters myself to be able do this safely with a handful of SPOs using the Partner Chains SDK. If it weren’t for Cardano on Cardano, my business never would have started!”
“My last crypto business was a flop because I launched it on ethereum. A bug in the ERC20 token allowed my entire customer base to lose everything. They tried to sue me, but they couldn’t find anywhere with jurisdiction. I did a lot of research, and found Cardano on Cardano. Now I can have native assets where the holders are the only ones that can touch the token and I don’t have to be accountable. Our volume was too large to use Cardano, but Cardano on Cardano allowed us to have only our transactions in blocks on a chain SPOs on Cardano sign up to make blocks for coupon rewards. Than you Cardano on Cardano!”