Progressive Sovereignty

What is 'Sovereignty'?

In this era of buzzwords like 'modular' and 'trust minimization' - it's difficult to know what 'sovereignty' actually is.

Canopy makes this simple:

• ✅ are not dependent on any other protocol to operate

  • 'modular' is code word for more points of failure!

• ✅ can't be censored by non-stakeholders

  • if it happened on Ethereum — it can happen to your dApp!

• ✅ may scale independently — free of resource constraints of any other protocol

  • no success ceiling!

• ✅ may leave a Security Root without any software changes

  • no ground-up rebuild that takes years!

• ✅ historical finality isn't threatened by leaving

  • can retain the integrity of old blocks!

• ✅ retain the complete ledger and blockchain history

  • no re-genesis!

• ✅ can rejoin a Security Root at anytime

  • exit and enter as you please!

• ✅ retain full ownership of blockchain data

  • don't be a light client to your own chain!

• ✅ have complete value capture

  • don't leak economics to a host for life!

True sovereignty is a fundamental piece of decentralization! Without it — a chain is just Web2 with a bad UX

Canopy offers a seamless path to independence graduation - where the chain may graduate to complete sovereignty after surpassing the cold start problem of L1s by using a security root.

And the process is simple...

• Step 1:

  • Issue an on-chain governance transaction to change RootChainID

• Step 2:

  • The software will automatically use the new RootChainURL in the config.json

Dive deeper into the 'How' with Independence Graduation!