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  • 👋Welcome to Canopy
    • Overview
    • What is Canopy?
      • Introduction
      • Why Canopy?
        • Blockchain 101
        • Background
        • Industry State
        • Seeding the Future
        • Comparables
          • Ethereum
          • Tendermint
          • Polkadot
          • Avalanche
          • Rollups
      • Core Features
        • Peer-To-Peer Security
        • Progressive Sovereignty
        • Capital Efficient Restaking
        • Composable Architecture
        • One-Way Interoperability
        • Built-In Liquidity
        • Chain Halt Rescue
        • NestBFT
          • PoS Is Trusted
          • PoAge Is Trustless
          • VRF Leader Election
        • Checkpoints as a Service
        • United Governance
      • Who is Canopy for?
        • New Blockchains
        • Existing Ecosystems
        • Investors
      • Tokenomics
        • CNPY
        • Supply
        • Block Reward
        • DAO Treasury Fund
        • Delegators
        • Auto-Compounding
        • Other incentives
        • Sub-Chain Block Reward
        • Subsidies
      • Future Vision
    • How does Canopy work?
      • Root-Chain
        • Consensus
        • P2P
        • State Machine
        • Storage
        • Governance
      • Connected-Chains
        • New Chains
          • Building
          • Launching
          • Independence Graduation
        • Existing Chains
          • Integration
        • Token Swaps
      • Specifications
        • CLI
        • RPC
        • Plugin Interface
        • Plugin IDs
        • Wallet
        • Block Explorer
  • ⚒️Build
    • Build a new L1
      • Introduction
      • Building
        • Application
        • Governance
        • Testing
        • Upgrading
      • Governance
        • Straw Polling
        • Proposals
    • Connect an external chain
      • Introduction
      • Building
        • Connecting
        • Testing
        • Upgrading
      • Governance
        • Straw Polling
  • 👨‍💻Node Runner
    • Setup
    • Install
    • Configure
    • Manage
    • Debug
    • Validate
      • Get CNPY
      • Plugins Config
      • Stake
      • Manage
      • Slashing
    • Govern
  • 💪Participate
    • How To Get CNPY
    • What to do with CNPY
      • Manage
      • Earn
      • Subsidize
      • Govern
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  • The problem with upgrading
  • Frictionless additions
  • Sharding as a feature
  1. Welcome to Canopy
  2. What is Canopy?
  3. Core Features

Composable Architecture

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The problem with upgrading

Adding new features to a live blockchain typically requires a consensus breaking change that involves a coordinated governance action.

This upgrade process introduces major friction to the blockchain development lifecycle and can greatly limit the speed of protocol reform and enhancements.

How would you upgrade on other stacks? Re-build? Multi-layer governance? Social coordination?

Frictionless additions

👉 Rather than growing on a single chain...

  • Canopy chains can transform into an application-specific ecosystem without any governance action.

  • This is a simple process of activating security features and cloning the Canopy blockchain for their new use-cases.

  • This process distributes workloads and lessens the reliance on single validator groups.

Sharding as a feature

  • Canopy chains are able to quickly scale by adding interoperable sibling chains

  • Horizontal clones enable a distribution of workload — lessening the reliance on single validator groups

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