Babylon Adding Bitcoin Security to NFTs
Babylon have successfully carried out testnet integration with XPLA to enhance XPLA network.
Babylon is a project that designs security protocols for the decentralized world. Babylon’s origins come from a research paper about Bitcoin security co-authored by the co-founder of Babylon, David Tse, a professor at Stanford and Ethereum 2.0 researcher, and the founder of EigenLayer Sreeram Kannan, and their colleagues. The project is led by a team of consensus protocol researchers from Stanford and experienced layer 1 engineers from around the world.
Babylon’s mission is to scale Bitcoin to secure the decentralized world through three innovative security-sharing protocols: Bitcoin Staking Protocol, Bitcoin Timestamping Protocol, and Bitcoin Data Availability Protocol. Through these pioneering protocols, Babylon envisions a more secure and decentralized future.
That said, Babylon’s testnet integration with the XPLA network directly addresses the trust and security concerns in the NFT sector. By integrating Babylon’s Bitcoin timestamping protocol to the XPLA network, each NFT gains an additional layer of Bitcoin security, leveraging the established trust and reliability of Bitcoin’s robust decentralized infrastructure.
This integration aims to mitigate the risks of scams and untrustworthy applications within the NFT space, providing a more secure and verifiable means of digital ownership. The result is a secure NFT ecosystem on the XPLA network, where users can transact with greater confidence in the authenticity and security of their digital assets.
Babylon: A bedrock of security for XPLA
Babylon’s Bitcoin timestamping protocol enhances the XPLA network by bringing in an extra layer of security to the XPLA network, offering Bitcoin security to the events and transactions that occur within our ecosystem. Babylon’s Bitcoin Timestamping Protocol is designed to timestamp events from other blockchains onto the Bitcoin blockchain, ensuring that they enjoy the same level of trust and security as Bitcoin transactions. By doing so, Babylon effectively leverages Bitcoin’s rock-solid security as a timestamping server and strengthens the integrity of XPLA’s blockchain-based assets.
Additionally, the integration also introduces a significant improvement in the form of fast unbonding. Unbonding periods have traditionally stretched over weeks, serving as a trust period where users could safely re-synchronize with the chain after a period of absence, ensuring that any potential attacks during their absence were duly mitigated. However, this extended timeframe has often been a point of concern, as it created a window of vulnerability where attackers could potentially deceive users with a malicious attack chain that reversed transactions.
In the case of the Cosmos chain, unbonding requests typically take a lengthy 21 days to complete. But with the incorporation of Babylon’s Bitcoin Timestamping Protocol, instead of waiting for weeks, users only need to wait until the Bitcoin timestamp of their unbonding request transaction is confirmed on the Bitcoin blockchain with sufficient depth, which typically takes just about one day. This enhancement not only speeds up the unbonding process but also adds an extra layer of security to it.
The use of Babylon’s Bitcoin Timestamping protocol means that as XPLA expands, it does so with a strong foundation of security that aligns with the rigorous standards established by Bitcoin. For the users of the XPLA platform, this means a more reliable and secure environment for trading and owning NFTs, nurturing a more trustworthy ecosystem for digital assets.
XPLA: A Unified Future for Digital Media
The XPLA Chain is a blockchain platform designed specifically for the digital media sector. Based on the idea of ‘Explore and Play’, XPLA encompasses a wide range of digital content with a leading blockchain gaming infrastructure empowered by a sustainable ecosystem. XPLA fosters an environment where gamers’ ownership and efforts are respected for a sustainable blockchain gaming ecosystem with its ‘P2O’ value.
Utilizing Tendermint core and Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus, the XPLA Chain provides a secure and scalable foundation for app development. Its open-source framework encourages developers to create applications that merge the current internet user base with emerging Web3 technologies.
The platform operates with its native token, XPLA, which plays a central role in governance, staking, and supporting decentralized applications (dApps).