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Four documents, the same five questions.
No throughput league table and no yield. The cells are what this library is willing to say about the text.
| Question | Polkadot: Vision for a heterogeneous multi-chain framework |
|---|---|
| What the text proposes | Wood's 2016 vision paper: a relay chain that provides shared security and a queue of cross-chain messages, with parachains that keep their own state transition. It is a vision paper. The live protocol has a specification of its own. |
| Who may write | Gavin Wood |
| What is settled | Parachains are heterogeneous. The relay chain does not require them to share a virtual machine. |
| Load-bearing assumption | A vision paper is not the Polkadot host specification. |
| What this library says afterwards | Shared security is only as strong as the relay-chain validator set and the availability of parachain data. |
| Rights | Official external source only |