What is the difference between Stellar and Substrate?

Stellar is an open-source network for storing and moving digital assets, and still remains the main blockchain for the minting of TFT and distribution of farming rewards. Until the launch of TF Chain with Grid 3.0, only TFT living on Stellar were accepted for the reservation of Internet capacity on the ThreeFold Grid.

TF Chain was built on the Substrate framework with the purpose of decentralizing user-farmer relationships on the ThreeFold Grid. It has its own native form of TFT, which can be bridged back and forth from Stellar-based TFT. This model will be implemented for other chains in the future, for interoperability and cross-chain features between blockchain and DeFi ecosystems and the ThreeFold Grid.

Stellar is the main chain for ThreeFold tokens, where they are minted. All billing for workloads happens on our Substrate based ThreeFold chain with tokens that are bridged from Stellar. We also used Stellar for billing in the last major version of the network, so it's there somewhat for historical reasons

While we use a blockchain based on Substrate for a minimal set of necessary functions, like billing and storing some public data, we are not a blockchain project. Our focus is on autonomous IT infrastructure and evolving the internet back towards its peer to peer roots

Updated on: 24/07/2024