Greg Meredith & Nash Foster: RChain – The Scalable, Concurrent and Performant Blockchain

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

Episode links:

• RChain Website
• RChain Rholang SDK (v0.1) Released
• A Visualization for the Future of Blockchain Consensus
• Introducing Rholang! at Devcon 2

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