On Blockchain Scalability: What are Sidechains and Rollups?

CyberPunkMetalHead
4 min readJul 28, 2022

Scalability on the blockchain refers to its ability to successfully cope with the ever increasing computing demand as more users adopt the service.

When it comes to scaling up a chain, the discussion narrows down to two approaches, which are not necessarily mutually exclusive: Sidechains and Roll-ups.

What are Sidechains?

--

--

CyberPunkMetalHead

x3 Top Writer and co-founder of Algo Trading Platform AESIR. I write about crypto, trading, tech and coding.