The NULS Technical Community (NULS) has released a blueprint for Nerve Network, a cross-concatenation protocol. Until now, the mysterious mastermind backside the network was known simply known as "Berzeck".

Vitalik's dream come true

Nerve Network is tackling the aforementioned issue every bit Cosmos (Atom) and Polkadot — a lack of cross-chain interoperability. This is something that Vitalik Buterin has recently lamented about:

"Nosotros should put resources toward a proper (trustless, serverless, maximally Uniswap-like UX) ETH <-> BTC decentralized commutation. It'due south embarrassing that nosotros still can't hands move between the two largest crypto ecosystems trustlessly."

Nerve Network has two layers of super-nodes. The start layer consists of 35 nodes and is similar to EOS. On superlative of that, there is a 2d layer of 15 so-chosen "Bank nodes". These manage diverse crypto assets that may be deployed on the network.

Reaper Ran, NULS founder, believes that Nerve Network is prepare to take on competition:

"Over the past yr, NULS developers have made 4,324 GitHub commits, the fifth most of any blockchain project. Internationally, we see greater enthusiasm as we approach cantankerous-concatenation functionality, and with our modular functionality, we are on pace to outperform all other incumbents."

In the instance of Bitcoin (BTC), Bank nodes will have multi-signature addresses to which users will be sending their funds. If a Banking company node misbehaves, information technology receives a "yellowish card", which denotes its negative activity. Persistent bad beliefs warrants the issuance of a "scarlet card", farther increasing the node's negative condition on the network.

In improver to providing cantankerous-chain interoperability, developers will be able to use NULS-inherent smart contracts with the Bitcoin network. Similar to the Lightning Network, Nerve Network will brand Bitcoin microtransactions possible by lowering costs.

The big reveal

Speaking with Cointelegraph, Berzeck explained that his motivation for not disclosing his identity was rather prosaic:

"I am a very practical man, in Bolivia, the onetime government [nether Evo Morales] was very much against crypto, so I was agape. But, now the new government [under Jeanine Añez] is much more friendly. So, I don't heed publicizing my proper name if information technology helps the project proceeds credibility."

Berzeck's real proper name is Mario Blacutt.

The lack of interoperability amongst diverse blockchain networks needs to be addressed if this engineering is to gain mass adoption.