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off-chain

off-chain adjective: occurring outside of a blockchain.

Adjective

off-chain (not comparable)

  1. Occurring outside of a blockchain.
    • The off-chain arrangements use miners who give their hard disk to store other clients' records for a prize, and the blockchain is utilized to encourage the capacity market among miners and clients.2021, D. Sumathi et al., editors, Convergence of Blockchain Technology and E-Business, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 241
    Antonyms:
    on-chain

Antonyms of off-chain

Origin of off-chain

From off + (block)chain.

Questions about off-chain

What does off-chain mean?
Off-chain means occurring outside of a blockchain.
What part of speech is off-chain?
Off-chain is an adjective.

Words near off-chain in the dictionary

  1. off-cast
  2. off-casting
  3. off-casts
  4. off-center
  5. off-centre
  6. off-chain
  7. off-chance
  8. off-collab
  9. off-color
  10. off-colour
  11. off-coloured

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