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Enshrine

The characteristic of installing an interface onto a primary system in order for it to interact with a secondary system.

In the context of distributed ledger technology, this term is most typically used to describe the integration of off-chain systems with their corresponding beacon chain. For example, most “layer-2” rollup technologies must first deploy certain smart contracts onto the main blockchain before performing the operations they were designed for. This is because layer-2 solutions cryptography batch transactions before submitting them to the chain, at which point they need to be systematically un-batched by the corresponding smart contracts.

Similarly, the term enshrined may also refer to how a side-chain, state channel, or relay network submits their state to the beacon chain.

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