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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
involving sidechain pegged Bitcoin or arbitrary asset tokens.
pegged to Bitcoin as a sidechain or run as a standalone blockchain with arbitrary asset tokens.

Confidential Assets
----------------
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* [Confidential Assets Whitepaper](https://blockstream.com/bitcoin17-final41.pdf) to be presented [April 7th at Financial Cryptography 2017](http://fc17.ifca.ai/bitcoin/schedule.html) in Malta
* [Confidential Assets Tutorial](contrib/assets_tutorial/assets_tutorial.sh)
* [Confidential Assets Demo](https://github.com/ElementsProject/confidential-assets-demo)
* [Elements Code Tutorial](https://elementsproject.org/elements-code-tutorial/overview) covering blockchain configuration and how to use the main features.

Features of the Elements blockchain platform
----------------

Compared to Bitcoin itself, it adds the following features:
* [Confidential Assets][asset-issuance]
* [Confidential Transactions][confidential-transactions]
* [Additional opcodes][opcodes]
* [Deterministic Peg][deterministic-peg]
* [Federated Two-Way Peg][federated-peg]
* [Signed Blocks][signed-blocks]
* [Additional opcodes][opcodes]

Previous elements that have been integrated into Bitcoin:
* [Segregated Witness][segregated-witness]
* [Relative Lock Time][relative-lock-time]
* Segregated Witness
* Relative Lock Time

Elements deferred for additional research and standardization:
* [Schnorr Signatures][schnorr-signatures]
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Elements is released under the terms of the MIT license. See [COPYING](COPYING) for more
information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.

[confidential-transactions]: https://www.elementsproject.org/elements/confidential-transactions
[segregated-witness]: https://www.elementsproject.org/elements/segregated-witness
[relative-lock-time]: https://www.elementsproject.org/elements/relative-lock-time
[schnorr-signatures]: https://www.elementsproject.org/elements/schnorr-signatures
[opcodes]: https://www.elementsproject.org/elements/opcodes
[deterministic-peg]: https://www.elementsproject.org/elements/deterministic-pegs
[signed-blocks]: https://www.elementsproject.org/elements/signed-blocks
[asset-issuance]: https://www.elementsproject.org/elements/asset-issuance
[confidential-transactions]: https://elementsproject.org/features/confidential-transactions
[opcodes]: https://elementsproject.org/features/opcodes
[federated-peg]: https://elementsproject.org/features#federatedpeg
[signed-blocks]: https://elementsproject.org/features#signedblocks
[asset-issuance]: https://elementsproject.org/features/issued-assets
[schnorr-signatures]: https://elementsproject.org/features/schnorr-signatures

What is the Elements Project?
-----------------
Elements is an open source collaborative project where we work on a collection
of experiments to more rapidly bring technical innovation to the Bitcoin ecosystem.
Elements is an open source, sidechain-capable blockchain platform. It also allows experiments to more rapidly bring technical innovation to the Bitcoin ecosystem.

https://github.com/ElementsProject/elementsproject.org
Learn more on the [Elements Project website](https://elementsproject.org)

Learn more on [the Elements Project website](https://www.elementsproject.org).
https://github.com/ElementsProject/elementsproject.github.io