Breakout Chain / Multicurrency ledger / PoW + PoS / Genesis 2016 / Mainnet: live /
Exhibit 01 · Overview — a multicurrency blockchain from the early ledger era

Built in 2016.
Still on-chain.

The Breakout Chain payment system is unique in that it carries several currencies on a single ledger, each with different properties. This type of currency system is termed a “Multicurrency” — and the properties of each currency shape the ways in which it is used.

Ledger Single
Currencies 4
Security PoW / PoS
Block time 5 min
Architect J. Stroud
Mainnet Live
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Breakout Chain

Global payment system with tiny transaction fees

Breakout Chain is a global payment system with minute transaction fees. It allows users to send money anywhere in the world instantly and directly to a recipient, without any middlemen. Carried on a single distributed ledger — a blockchain — exist several currencies with different uses.

At the heart of the Breakout Chain Multicurrency system is the currency Breakout Coin (ticker: BRK). It is the currency designated for payments, issuances of colored coins, pegged currencies, and used to fuel the smart-contract system.

To help promote adoption of Breakout Coin, a reserve of 7,000,000 BRK was held to be lent to vendors and third-party businesses. Loan disbursements were made over time and carried strict clauses that forbade recipients from selling coins on exchanges. Loans were intended for such things as reward points or incentives. Terms encouraged the borrower to be a net buyer in the open market, and did not penalize the borrower in the event that the BRK price increased significantly during the repayment period.

More on Breakout Coin & the marketing fund

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Unique hybrid blockchain

Proof-of-Work / Proof-of-Stake

Breakout Chain is a hybrid Proof-of-Work / Proof-of-Stake (PoW/PoS) blockchain. Unlike other PoW/PoS hybrids, however, in Breakout Chain the two different security systems emit two different coins.

Whereas PoS emits Breakout Coin (by staking Breakout Stake), the PoW emits Sister Coin. This type of system is completely novel and unique to Breakout Chain.

Alongside Breakout Coin is another currency called Breakout Stake (BRX). Breakout Stake owners have the right to validate blocks of the Breakout Chain ledger. For each block, the validator is permitted to claim a reward for performing the validation.

How the two-coin security model works

One of

the most technically innovative payment systems in existence

Multiple currencies. One ledger. Two security systems, two coins.

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Four currencies + 53 NFTs

Carried on a single ledger
Breakout Coin
Role
Payments
Emitted by
PoS
Block reward
20 BRK
Inflation
5% / yr
Breakout Stake
Role
Validation
Stakes
20 BRK
Supply
Fixed
Inflation
Zero
Sister Coin
Role
PoW emission
Max supply
21 M
Reward
50 SIS
Inflation
Halving
Atomic
Role
Utility
Supply
10 B
Inflation
None
Min fee
1 BAM
Plus the Deck  — beyond the four fungible currencies, the chain also carries The Deck: 53 unique NFT tokens (tickers DAS, D2H …), each a full on-chain currency in its own right.

Full chain specifications

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