What is the Liquid Network?
1 What is the Liquid Network? Liquid Network is Bitcoin’s federated sidechain, serving as a settlement and payments network for exchanges, market-makers, brokers and other market participants. Built on the Elements codebase, it uses Strong Federation. 2 How did the Liquid Network come about? In autumn 2014 Blockstream published a white paper on sidechains titled Sidechain Elements. In June 2015 it released open-source code and a test network to let developers experiment with sidechain functionality.