Omnity Litepaper
  • 📜Omnity Litepaper
  • 🗒️Summary
  • 🔮Challenges
    • Settlement and Execution Chains
    • Canonical Bridges
    • IBC Protocol
    • Relayers
    • Hub Security
    • Peg Zones
  • 💡Novel Solutions
    • IC Customs and Routes
    • Interoperability Requirements
    • Zero Off-chain Components
    • Execution Chain Finality
  • ⚙️IC Enablers
    • Chain-Key Cryptography
    • High-computational and Storage Efficiency
    • Native Integrations with Bitcoin and Ethereum
    • Reverse Gas Model
    • On-chain Governance
  • 📈Upgrowth
    • Protocol Revenue
    • Goals
  • 📝Coda
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  1. Challenges

Hub Security

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Last updated 1 year ago

The hub is more critical than relayers; if compromised, all cross-chain assets will be lost. The foremost problem is how to bootstrap hub security. The traditional way is to distribute cross-chain fees to hub security providers using the hub token as the staking asset and gas fee.

Other options include paying or with cross-chain fees. Setting up the hub as an L2 is also considerable; cross-chain fees can cover DA and L1 costs.

Regardless of the method used, remember that for a system to be sustainable in the long term, its operating costs must ultimately be borne by its users.

  • Can a hub be built to match the security level of major settlement chains without a long and expensive bootstrap process? Can users enjoy sound security without paying too much?

While there is no such thing as a free lunch in the world, there is almost free security if you know where to look.

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