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Joel
Joel

Reputation: 23140

If a Corda OwnableState is owned by an AnonymousParty, who stores it?

In Corda, an OwnableState must specify an AbstractParty as an owner. There are two types of AbstractParty:

If I create a CompositeKey to own the OwnableState, who then will store it in their vault as part of FinalityFlow?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 91

Answers (1)

Mike Hearn
Mike Hearn

Reputation: 1473

At the moment nobody will unless lower level APIs are used.

The vault needs more work to fully understand multi-sig states, e.g. with cash, we need a way to select coins that we're participants of.

It's quite an advanced feature because composite keys have so many use cases. This is typical in the blockchain space, Bitcoin supported CHECKMULTISIG outputs in the protocol long before wallets that knew how to use them existed. And when wallets did start to appear, they had different code and features for different use cases. E.g. using multisig/composite keys for more secure wallets is different to using them to do dispute mediation protocols. At least with flows we have a straightforward way to implement support - we can make flows that understand composite keys and either have the certs linking the components to real parties, or know who they are some other way, and then go gather the signatures automatically.

Upvotes: 1

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