This is the integration and staging tree for the Elements blockchain platform, a collection of feature experiments and extensions to the Bitcoin protocol. This platform enables anyone to build their own businesses or networks pegged to Bitcoin as a sidechain or run as a standalone blockchain with arbitrary asset tokens.

The latest feature in the Elements blockchain platform is Confidential Assets, the ability to issue multiple assets on a blockchain where asset identifiers and amounts are blinded yet auditable through the use of applied cryptography.

• Announcement of Confidential Assets
• Confidential Assets Whitepaper to be presented April 7th at Financial Cryptography 2017 in Malta
• Confidential Assets Tutorial
• Confidential Assets Demo
• Elements Code Tutorial covering blockchain configuration and how to use the main features.

Compared to Bitcoin itself, it adds the following features:

• Confidential Assets
• Confidential Transactions
• Federated Two-Way Peg
• Signed Blocks
• Additional opcodes

Previous elements that have been integrated into Bitcoin:

• Segregated Witness
• Relative Lock Time

Elements deferred for additional research and standardization:

• Schnorr Signatures

Elements is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.

Elements is an open source, sidechain-capable blockchain platform. It also allows experiments to more rapidly bring technical innovation to the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Learn more on the Elements Project website

https://github.com/ElementsProject/elementsproject.github.io