You can use it for a lot of stuff. You cn build pretty versatile applications that are just making use of exiom with like having to deploy something on another chain inthes it's meant for. But we don't want every chain to have smart contracts, or and even have smart contracts as they're right. So then you need some ways of executing conditional logic on chains that are not smart contracting platforms. Then do have conditionals that do have a air handling, that do have alternate cases.
In this week’s episode, Anna dives back into the Polkadot world with friend and occasional co-host Rob Habermeier from Parity. They cover XCM - the Cross-Consensus Messaging format - and how XCM allows parachains to speak to one another, passing messages through the validators on the relay chain via XCMP Cross-Chain Message Passing.
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