Multichain Operation
The Multichain software is currently used to implement all 3 types of Interval Chains for the 25.5 release.
Installation
Minimum support version 2.3.3
- Download MultiChain Community | MultiChain
- GitHub - MultiChain/multichain-explorer-2: MultiChain Explorer 2. Requires MultiChain 2.2 beta 3+.
- GitHub - MultiChain/multichain-web-demo: Simple web interface for MultiChain blockchains, written in PHP.
Subscription
Multichain has this concept of "subscription" to the a data stream, although ALL nodes already stores all the blockchain data, they can save some storage (those used for stream indexes and offchain items) by NOT subscribing to some streams within a blockchain.
With subscription they can easily query the stream and have access to the offchain content of the subscribed stream.
Scaling Problem
As of 2024-11--2 the latest 2.3.3 Multichain version has a scaling problem, there might be an upcoming release version 2.3.5 which might have a fix for it.
This does not affect Interval Chain, since Team Compute separate of powers and aggregation of resources principles means we need have many blockchains anyway.
Interval Chain has almost infinite scalability due to the large number of ways that data can be split up into multiple blockchains.