- System channel no longer required, Now you can create a channel without a system channel
- Consortium no longer required. all channels are application channels, so the concept of a list of organizations who can create channels no longer applies.
- Now as a compensation for Consortium missing, you do need to create at least one peer organization MSP definitions provided in the configtx.yaml
- a system channel genesis block no longer needs to exist
- orderers can join or leave channels as needed,
- Easy to list the channels that the ordering node is a consenter on.
- Simple process to remove a channel and the blocks associated with that channel.
- Incompatible with system channel mode