Substrate

What if developers could build on a blockchain framework specifically optimized for their requirements that seamlessly evolves with their needs and without requiring forks?

Welcome to Substrate, the only flexible, open, interoperable, and future-proof blockchain framework.

• Substrate is a tool that allows you to easily create new blockchains (products and applications) on Polkadot.
• This is a framework that makes development more convenient and simple in terms of usability. At the same time, the substrate allows you to configure not only parachains, but also the specifics of protocols, consensuses within them (for example, not limited to choosing strictly PoW, or exclusively PoS consensus). Therefore, tools similar to the substrate, on a more general scale, represent a constructor that allows you to create more flexible conditions for both parachains within the main blockchain (relay chain) and parameters within the parachains themselves: protocols, smart contracts, consensuses, etc.

Substrate-based chains are designed to seamlessly connect to Polkadot, granting access to its system of parallel transactions, cross-chain transfers, and an expanding support network.

True Interoperablility

By utilizing the Polkadot Relay Chain, all Substrate-based chains can interoperate with others in the ecosystem without the need for bridges.

Shared Security

Polkadot’s security is shared without compromise to all chains connected to it, removing the need for and expense of developing your own security network.

Sovereign Governance

While benefiting from the network effects on Polkadot, each chain also maintains independent governance for maximum freedom.

Substrate Specifics

Modularity, performance, and flexibility

All blockchains need some sort of business logic that defines (amongst other things) what transactions do. Substrate chains are no different, and business logic is provided through a modular system known as FRAME. Using FRAME, you can very easily create, compose and publish components to form your own specialist business logic.

By providing you with a true open canvas, together with practical components that can be composed, reused and published, Substrate opens up whole new worlds of design space and potential for innovation. Indeed, the fact that Substrate is the underlying blockchain framework we used to build the Polkadot Relay Chain attests to its performance and flexibility.

The Substrate Builders Program directly supports you by connecting you with Parity’s extensive resources, taking your Substrate project to the next level.

Substrate enables your blockchain to assimilate new technology as it comes along.