Infrastructure

Startups

Handshake, decentralized certificate authority and naming. An experimental peer-to-peer root DNS.

Bspeak Capital

Emergence

D1 Ventures

SNZ Holding

Lowercase Capital

Wave Financial

Ausum Ventures

Meltem Demirors

Iconium

IDEO CoLab

True Ventures

Michael Yang

Sequoia Capital

Craft Ventures

QUESCHAIN

Collaborative Fund

Boost VC

INBlockchain

DHVC

FBG Capital

Polychain Capital

Hashed

Dekrypt Capital

MULTICOIN CAPITAL

a16z crypto

Kenetic Capital

Digital Currency Group

Mark Tyneway

Andrew Lee

Joseph Poon

Matt Zipkin

Hans Schoenburg

Handshake

Ignite, formerly Tendermint, State-of-the-art consensus engine. Byzantine-fault tolerant state machine replication. Or blockchain, for short.

From our origins as Tendermint, our purpose has always been to create a first-in-class developer experience for the Cosmos ecosystem. While we remain steadfast in this commitment, we also understand that individuals and organizations can benefit from truly innovative Web3 ideas.

Ignite, represents the change we inspire by connecting everyone to this world of decentralization and interoperability. As Ignite, we are leading the way in accelerating the world’s transition to a decentralized future. Creative minds have the power to advance the world and revolutionize how we live. Alongside this, mass adoption of blockchain solutions is critical to drive true global advancement.

Our solutions are developed for global communities to easily build innovative ideas and for people to use decentralized services in their everyday lives.

“Ignite” is a name that brings to mind the initiation of change and action, a starting point for more significant growth and innovation within our industry. It is the spark of inspiration for creators to build the next leap in blockchain innovation and for people to take that leap into using these blockchain services. We are the starting point: opening possibilities and fueling growth as your partner to success.

As leaders in the blockchain space, we are here to ignite your journey into the decentralized future.

Ignite

Trustworthy and Reliable Intelligent Autonomous Systems, an all-platform-supported native-application-compatible smart contract execution platform.

TRIAS

Aptos is a people-first blockchain on a mission to help billions of people achieve universal and fair access to decentralized assets in a safe and scalable way. It is a new, independent project to fulfill our vision of delivering the safest and most production-ready blockchain in the world.

Aptos was designed with an emphasis on absolute safety, extensible scalability, and credible neutrality — values that we know firsthand and viscerally understand.

We are not starting from scratch. We are the original creators, researchers, designers, and builders of Diem, the blockchain that was first built to serve this purpose. While the world never got to see what we built, our work is far from over.

We have had the luxury of thinking about these problems alongside some of the brightest engineers in the world for years. Since departing Meta (formerly Facebook) we have been able to put our ideas into motion, ditch bureaucratic red tape, and build an entirely new network from the ground up that brings them to fruition. We’re now ready to socialize those ideas more broadly and start shipping the infrastructure that we’ve been perfecting.

Aptos will be built in part on the technology we developed in the open over the past three years. Aptos is using Move, the safe and reliable language originally developed for Diem. The ideas we conceived then are still relevant and will serve as an important foundation for a safe, scalable, upgradable Web3. Our plans for decentralization and permissionless access are progressing quickly and will be developed in the open.

We have years of experience developing and deploying systems at scale, and our entire team has dedicated our careers to this calling. My cofounder, Avery Ching, is one of the world’s leading experts in building distributed systems and scaling them for billions of users. The rest of the founding team at Aptos consists of an impressive group of PhDs, researchers, engineers, designers and strategists including Alden Hu, Alin Tomescu, Dahlia Malkhi, David Wolinsky, Greg Nazario, Jake Skinner, Josh Lind, Max Kaplan, Mo Ahmed, Neil Harounian, Rati Gelashivili, Rustie Lin, Sasha Spiegelman, Sherry Xiao and Zekun Li.

As a team, we are driven by the confidence that we are the right people to build the safest, most scalable and most widely accessible network. That might sound cliché or overly idyllic, but we mean it wholeheartedly: a world utility cannot succeed in the hands of a few. Aptos will only succeed if it is collectively used, owned and maintained by everyone.

Now, on the fourth iteration of the consensus protocol, we are confident that Aptos is capable of bringing affordability, decentralization, and speed to the daily lives of billions of internet users. It is the lowest latency, optimistically-responsive BFT protocol available, and it features a robust, on-chain reputation system and novel methods for parallel execution — a key enabler of speed at scale. We will rapidly deploy many key innovations in performance, functionality and improvements to the overall user experience and leverage our ability to do major upgrades seamlessly in the process.

Aptos

Crypto-platform for asset/custom token issuance, transfer and trading on the Waves blockchain, with centralised order matching and decentralised settlement.

Waves

Ethereum is a decentralized platform for applications that run exactly as programmed without any chance of fraud, censorship or third-party interference.

Ethereum

"Mercatoria uses pseudorandom assignment and locality of state to achieve arbitrary scalability and true decentralization for its payment processing and smart contracts." — Wei Dai, co-founder.

Mercatoria

The Ardor Main Chain will be where all Ardor tokens ARDR will reside. It will serve as the system that secures all child chains and processes their transactions.

Ardor is a blockchain-as-a-service-platform that evolved from the time-tested Nxt blockchain. It launched on January 1, 2018 after a successful year on testnet. The unique parent-child chain architecture of Ardor, with a single security chain and multiple transactional chains, offers three advantages: reducing blockchain bloat, providing multiple transactional tokens, and hosting ready-to-use interconnected blockchains called child chains.

ardor

Zilliqa is the world's first high-throughput public blockchain platform designed to scale to thousands of transactions per second. Zilliqa has been under research and development for two years. It brings the theory of sharding to practice with its novel protocol that increases transaction rates as its network expands.

Zilliqa processes more transactions per second as more mining nodes join the network. This may sound like a natural thing at first, but it turns out to be technically challenging to accomplish, and certainly hasn’t been possible by past blockchain protocols. Getting consensus in a larger crowd is technically harder! Zilliqa’s novel consensus protocol solves this problem. With Zilliqa’s scalability, we can support dApps that demand transaction rates beyond today’s blockchains. Zilliqa only leverages PoW to establish mining identities. This process defends against sybil attacks and is also used to perform network sharding.

Unlike other blockchains though, Zilliqa does not use PoW for consensus. PoW is performed only at larger intervals, not by every miner on every block. Thus, it has a much smaller energy footprint. We’ve stayed with PoW since it has been well studied in the literature and field-tested, while its emerging alternatives (such as PoS) are still under active research.

Zilliqa

Aion is a multi-tier system designed to address unsolved questions of scalability, and interoperability in blockchain networks. This is the Internet, decentralized.

Aion