# Magi

> Magi (formerly known as VSC, Virtual Smart Chain) is a Hive-based Layer-2 protocol for cross-chain interoperability and WebAssembly smart contract execution. It currently connects Bitcoin and Ethereum on mainnet, with Litecoin, Dash, and Solana planned, through validator-managed vaults. Every liquidity pair routes through HBD (Hive Backed Dollar) as the base asset, and end-user transactions are feeless via Hive's resource credit model. Validators observe each external chain by running native clients (e.g. bitcoind, geth) and reaching BLS-signed consensus; zero-knowledge proofs are currently used for EVM (Ethereum) validation, with broader use planned for other chains.

The public brand is Magi; source code lives under the GitHub organization vsc-eco. Both magi.eco and vsc.eco resolve to the same project. The canonical node is go-vsc-node (Go); the older TypeScript vsc-node is archived. Smart contracts are written in Go (TinyGo) or AssemblyScript and compile to WebAssembly. The API is exclusively GraphQL — no REST.

## Documentation Sets

- [Abridged documentation](https://docs.magi.eco/llms-small.txt): a compact version of the documentation for Magi, with non-essential content removed
- [Complete documentation](https://docs.magi.eco/llms-full.txt): the full documentation for Magi

## Notes

- The complete documentation includes all content from the official documentation
- The content is automatically generated from the same source as the official documentation

## Optional

- [Altera (live app)](https://altera.vsc.eco): Flagship Magi dApp — multi-chain wallet and swaps.
- [Magi Blocks (block explorer)](https://vsc.techcoderx.com/): Inspect blocks, transactions, witnesses, contracts.
- [GitHub organization](https://github.com/vsc-eco): All open-source repositories.
- [Discord](https://discord.gg/yvGXZsQTU6)