Blockchain Reference for the LIP9 Namespace

Simple Summary

This document is about the details of the LIP9 namespace and reference for CAIP-2.

Abstract

In CAIP-2 a general blockchain identification scheme is defined. This is the implementation of CAIP-2 for LIP9 (Lisk).

Motivation

See CAIP-2.

Specification

LIP9 Namespace

The namespace is called "lip9" as in LIP9.

Reference Definition

The definition is delegated to LIP9. The reference format is a 16 character prefix of the network identifier from LIP9 (lower case hex).

Rationale

The LIP9 namespace should cover Lisk Mainnet and Testnet, forks and side chains.

Backwards Compatibility

Not applicable

Test Cases

This is a list of manually composed examples

# Lisk Mainnet (https://github.com/LiskHQ/lips/blob/master/proposals/lip-0009.md#appendix-example)
lip9:9ee11e9df416b18b

# Lisk Testnet (echo -n "da3ed6a45429278bac2666961289ca17ad86595d33b31037615d4b8e8f158bbaLisk" | sha256sum | head -c 16)
lip9:e48feb88db5b5cf5

Links

• LIP9

Copyright

Copyright and related rights waived via CC0.