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

• ✅ Can't be censored by non-stakeholders

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

• ✅ May leave a Security Root without any software changes

• ✅ Historical finality isn't threatened by leaving

• ✅ Retain the complete ledger and blockchain history

• ✅ Can rejoin a Security Root at anytime

• ✅ Retain full ownership of blockchain data

• ✅ Have complete value capture

Things you will not see in Sovereign blockchains:

• ❌ External points of failure aka 'modular' dependencies

• ❌ Re-genesis events or ground up rebuilds to migrate

• ❌ Loss of historical block finality

• ❌ Success ceiling dictated by the resources of a host

• ❌ Censorship by 3rd party Validators

• ❌ Leaking economics to the host

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 Utility