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Overview and Frequently Asked Questions |
The Oasis Network is a privacy-first decentralized computing network.
The Oasis Network separates consensus from computation, making the platform highly adaptable while enabling high-performance computation. This unique design has two major core components, the Consensus Layer and the ParaTime Layer.
- The Consensus Layer: The Consensus Layer is a decentralized set of validator nodes that maintains a proof-of-stake blockchain.
- The ParaTime Layer: The ParaTime Layer can host multiple parallel runtimes, each representing a replicated compute environment with shared state.
Confidentiality The Oasis Network is designed to support end-to-end confidentiality and data ownership, with built-in support for key management and TEEs like Intel SGX — allowing it to support new privacy-preserving applications and services.
Versatility & Resilience The Oasis Network is designed to support a broad range of use cases without having to go through hard-forks or large updates — helping ensure it can retain its value and utility for many years to come.
Performance The Oasis Network separates computation from consensus and allows for ParaTimes to operate in parallel — avoiding throughput issues that have plagued other networks.
Oasis is a proof-of-stake platform.
Unlike many other proof of stake networks however, we have a different architectural design that separates compute from consensus and allows the system to scale to support transactions with greater complexity than many traditional sharding platforms.
Oasis is a unique Layer 1 platform and is not built on top of Ethereum.
To learn more about our platform read our white paper!
At Oasis our goal is to build a public decentralized network that offers additional properties of confidentiality and privacy for your data.
Conversely, Hyperledger is a siloed network typically run and owned by one entity that retains some of the properties often found in blockchain computing systems.
It does not support confidentiality across a public network.
All code can be found at https://github.com/oasisprotocol.
The Oasis network is a proof of stake system and we’ll look to community members to run nodes for everything from storage to computation to consensus.