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.

The latest feature in the Elements blockchain platform is Confidential Assets, the ability to issue multiple assets on a blockchain where asset identifiers and amounts are blinded yet auditable through the use of applied cryptography.

• Announcement of Confidential Assets
• Confidential Assets Whitepaper to be presented April 7th at Financial Cryptography 2017 in Malta
• Confidential Assets Tutorial
• Confidential Assets Demo

Compared to Bitcoin itself, it adds the following features:

• Confidential Assets
• Confidential Transactions
• Additional opcodes
• Deterministic Peg
• Signed Blocks

Previous elements that have been integrated into Bitcoin:

• Segregated Witness
• Relative Lock Time

Elements deferred for additional research and standardization:

• Schnorr Signatures

Elements is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.

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.

https://github.com/ElementsProject/elementsproject.org

Learn more on the Elements Project website.