What is Fractal Bitcoin?
Fractal Bitcoin is the only Bitcoin scaling solution that uses the Bitcoin Core code itself to recursively scale unlimited layers. It enables infinite scalability and seamless integration with Bitcoin, allowing it to support internet-scale applications while maintaining high consistency with Bitcoin's core principles.
What are the advantages of Fractal Bitcoin?
- Fractal’s main innovation lies in its use of virtualization to achieve infinite scalability within the Bitcoin ecosystem, allowing the network to dynamically expand and handle large volumes of transactions and complex applications without performance loss.
- Fractal’s approach ensures seamless, native integration with Bitcoin, enabling developers to build and scale applications without relying on foreign constructs or cross-chain operations, and without complex reconfigurations.
- Another key differentiation is Fractal’s position as a Bitcoin Innovation Playground, such as by introducing new opcodes like OP_CAT, allowing developers to push the boundaries of innovation directly on Bitcoin.
- Additionally, Fractal’s hybrid mining architecture (Cadence Mining) combines permissionless and merged mining, ensuring robust security while promoting decentralized participation.
- These innovations make Fractal a more versatile, scalable, and Bitcoin-aligned solution compared to its competitors, offering unique value for developers, miners, and users looking to leverage the strengths of Bitcoin for advanced applications and broader adoption.
Who uses Fractal Bitcoin?
- Fractal appeals to developers by enabling scalable solutions without leaving the Bitcoin ecosystem and providing compatibility for BTC-related, Ethereum, and Web2-to-Web3 developers.
- Fractal is especially interesting for Bitcoin developers and project teams that already have operations running on the Bitcoin mainnet but are constrained by the limitations of the Bitcoin mainnet.
- End-users, including gamers, NFT collectors, and DeFi participants, benefit from Fractal’s scalable and cost-effective infrastructure, while enterprises and brands find it an accessible entry point into blockchain technology. Key utilities include AI, gaming, memes, NFTs, social platforms, DEXes/DeFi, explorers, wallets, and infrastructure.
- For miners, Fractal’s hybrid permissionless and merged mining architecture offers secure and economically rewarding participation.
- Fractal also aligns with the values of blockchain communities and advocates, supporting decentralization, transparency, and security.
What can Fractal Bitcoin be used for?
- $FB can be used as the transaction fee for the network itself, supporting the operations of the Fractal Bitcoin network.
- $FB will also be used in inter-layer bridging between the infinitely scalable Fractal layers via the Fractal Elevator (as described in the Fractal technical litepaper).
- $FB can serve as a community governance tool for Fractal Bitcoin, playing a role in guiding development and incentivizing contributions to the Fractal network
- $FB may be used for certain services or tools within the Fractal ecosystem that require holding or spending Fractal tokens.
- $FB can be used as the most basic measuring unit of programmable execution cost on the platform, enabling more innovative use cases for contracts.