FAQ

Ethstable is a permissioned, Ethereum-compatible blockchain built for secure, high-throughput settlement of digital representations of fiat currencies, commodities, and other financial assets. It’s designed for enterprises and financial institutions rather than retail or permissionless public use.

Institutions, banks, payment institutions, custodians, commodity houses, corporates, and approved service providers — that need a controlled settlement environment for tokenized assets. Participation is not open to anonymous users.

Ethstable uses the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and standards like ERC-20, so it works with familiar Ethereum tooling. But it is permissioned: every validator and user is a known, vetted entity that has passed onboarding and KYC/AML checks. There is no public mining or staking, and the network isn’t exposed to public cryptocurrency markets.

Ethstable uses the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and standards like ERC-20, so it works with familiar Ethereum tooling. But it is permissioned: every validator and user is a known, vetted entity that has passed onboarding and KYC/AML checks. There is no public mining or staking, and the network isn’t exposed to public cryptocurrency markets.

There are three primary roles: Validators (Authorities) who produce and seal blocks; Asset Sponsors/Issuers who originate tokenized assets; and Network Users who hold accounts and use tokens and smart contracts but don’t produce blocks. Auditors, regulators, and technical operators may have monitoring or governance access.

Yes. Contracts can embed logic such as whitelisting/blacklisting of counterparties, jurisdictional and transaction-limit rules based on KYC attributes, and conditional (delivery-versus-payment) settlement. Contracts can be audited and certified under consortium governance before production deployment.

A consortium of participating institutions. It manages validator admission/suspension/removal, network parameters (block time, gas limits, fees), protocol upgrades, and asset-onboarding standards, using on-chain voting contracts and codified procedures.

Ethstable is a permissioned ledger, so transaction data is visible to authorized participants. Additional privacy layers may be applied where needed — partitioned subnets/channels, selective disclosure and encryption of payloads with keys held by relevant counterparties and regulators, and privacy-preserving cryptography subject to regulatory approval.

The threat model covers external attacks, insider/compromised validators, and oracle manipulation. Mitigations include geographic and organizational validator diversity with node-level redundancy, hardened and regularly audited validator infrastructure, formal and external security audits of core protocol and critical contracts, and governance powers to suspend validators and deploy emergency patches. Regular security exercises and incident-response planning are part of consortium governance.

PoA supports higher throughput and lower latency than Proof-of-Work. The network scales through high-capacity validator infrastructure, protocol tuning (block size, gas limits, block times), and application-level techniques like batching and netting with on-chain final settlement. Sharding or sidechain approaches may be introduced in future if a single chain’s capacity is exceeded.

Potential items include expanded token-standard support and on-chain financial primitives, enhanced privacy and confidential transactions, more sophisticated oracle and attestation frameworks, additional identity/credentialing integrations, and progressive decentralization of governance.