Decentralized / Public
Public blockchains that emphasize open participation, censorship resistance, and decentralized consensus.
Public blockchains enable permissionless participation, programmable assets, and decentralized applications.
Highlights
- Open networks and public consensus (e.g., Ethereum, Bitcoin).
- Smart contracts, tokens, DeFi, and NFTs.
- Trust assumptions are distributed across many participants.
Considerations
- Scalability, gas/fee economics, and UX challenges.
- Smart contract security and formal verification.
- Privacy-preserving techniques (zk, mixers) and regulator interactions.