CAIP-6: Blockchain Reference for the LIP9 Namespace

Author Simon Warta
Discussions-To https://github.com/ChainAgnostic/CAIPs/issues/7, https://github.com/ChainAgnostic/CAIPs/pull/1
Status Draft
Type Standard
Created 2019-12-05
Updated 2020-01-16
Requires 2

Table of Contents

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

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Citation

Please cite this document as:

Simon Warta, "CAIP-6: Blockchain Reference for the LIP9 Namespace [DRAFT]," Chain Agnostic Improvement Proposals, no. 6, December 2019. [Online serial]. Available: https://github.com/ChainAgnostic/CAIPs/blob/master/CAIPs/caip-6.md