Technical description of the platform

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

The Waves Enterprise blockchain platform exists in the commercial and the 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. To purchase a commercial version of the Waves Enterprise platform, contact the Waves Enterprise sales team by email: sales@wavesenterprise.com.

The release of the Waves Enterprise opensource version 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 blockchain 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 blockchain platform. The following sections of the node configuration file are not available in the opensource version: