Bloxroute Releases Blockchain Distribution Network For ETH And BCH

The cryptocurrency software firm Bloxroute is in the latest ETH and Bitcoin Cash news for announcing the launch of the startup’s Blockchain Distribution Network (BDN) Version 1. As the co-founder Eyal Markovich said, the BDN V1 release is a milestone for the company and the scalability service aims to enable the exponential blockchain scaling by propagating blocks and transactions in a faster way.

The startup Bloxroute is a firm which is dedicated to blockchain propagation software. They recently revealed the launch of the BDN V1 as a protocol with a “Layer-0 blockchain scalability solution” and the company’s co-founder noted that developers have been working “tirelessly” toward the effort.

We first mentioned Bloxroute in the crypto news back in November 2018 after the Bitcoin Cash blockchain split – and the BSV split from the BCH network. At the time, both of the communities heavily debated about how miners and nodes would handle massive sized blocks in the future. Bloxroute was at the time brought up in the debates quite quick – mostly because they believe that BDN can bring more efficient block propagation for blockchains.

“In particular, Bloxroute propagates blocks without knowledge of the transactions they contain, their number, and the ‘wallets’ or addresses involved. Miners are free to include arbitrary transactions in a block,” the Bloxroute whitepaper explains.

Since then, Bloxroute has been experimenting with multiple blockchains and its recent tests include the ETH Mining Test, the Bitcoin Cash Miner Test as well as the Akomba Labs Test. For instance, the results from the Bitcoin Cash Miner Test showed that “BDN propagates large blocks (32MB) between 2-18 seconds compared to up to 193 seconds without Bloxroute.”

“Block compression technology, such as Compact blocks, improved with the BDN as transaction propagation allowed mempools to be more in sync,” the report highlights.

Additionally, we can see that China saw the “largest improvement” in propagation times and BDN “sped up the fork recoveries” such as missed transactions from compact blocks. Bloxroute has been working with different mining pools and had an apparent partnership with the mining operation Rawpool.

As for the latest BDN V1 Gateway software, the co-founder Markovich noted that the protocol is now available via  Github, Dockerhub, and Pypi. When asked about the future, he said:

“While the first version of the Blockchain Distribution Network (BDN) supports Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash, we are also working to integrate the BDN with a number of new blockchain projects including Ontology, Quorum, Conflux, and Metadium.”