Technical description of the platform

Differences between the opensource and commercial versions of the Waves Enterprise platform¶

The Waves Enterprise blockchain platform exists in a commercial and an opensource versions.

The commercial version of the Waves Enterprise blockchain platform is intended for use in the corporate and government sectors and is distributed through user licenses.

The release of the open source version of Waves Enterprise, distributed under the Apache 2.0 license, is available on GitHub. The 30000 blocks limit on blockchain height does not apply to the opensource version.

Differences between the opensource and commercial versions of the Waves Enterprise platform¶
Functionality	Opensource	Corporate
Containerized Smart Contracts
Confidential data exchange
Consensus algorithms: LPoS, PoA, CFT
Anchoring
Cryptography
Waves (Curve25519, Blake2b256 and Keccak256)
GOST
Support of TLS
PKI support v1

Correspondingly, the node configuration files are different for the opensource and commercial versions of the Waves Enterprise platform. The following sections of the node configuration file are not available in the opensource version: