Infrastructure

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Mechanism designs and builds protocols on Bitcoin using Stacks. Our mission is to grow the GDP of Bitcoin. We believe in a future where Bitcoin is the money layer and Stacks is the programming layer.

Fix the money, fix the world.

Mechanism

NEAR is a decentralized application platform that is secure enough to manage high value assets like money or identity and performant enough to make them useful for everyday people, putting the power of the Open Web in their hands.

NEAR Protocol

A protocol for decentralized information curation. Our mission is to organize the world’s information and to make it freely accessible.

DIRT allows anyone to deploy a datastore on Ethereum that is openly editable. We call this a Community Moderated Datastore (CMD) because there is no single owner. All the data is community owned and managed, and any service or application can use the data in a CMD. 

DIRT built on the ideas of a token curated registry (TCR) to help communities maintain their CMD quality as follows: 

Write data: To write to a CMD, users stake tokens. The required token stake is unique to each datastore and set at the time of creation. As long as the data is saved in the datastore, the tokens are staked with the data. This prevents spam by requiring every writer to have skin in the game.

Edit data: If someone comes across an error while using DIRT, they can flag the error and earn staked tokens for incorrect data as a bounty. Changes on DIRT are decided by token weighted votes. Any DIRT token holders can vote to accept or reject the proposal. After the vote ends, voters in the majority earn tokens while those in the minority are penalized.

DIRT Protocol

Tari is a new open source, decentralized protocol that reimagines the future of digital assets.

Tari

Ceramic provides developers with database-like functionality for storing all kinds of dynamic, mutable content. This finally gives developers a Web3 native way to add critical features like rich identities (profiles, reputation, social graphs), user-generated content (posts, interactions), dynamic application-data, and much more.

Ceramic’s stream-based architecture is designed for web-scale volume and latency and to handle any type of data. Built on top of open standards including IPFS, libp2p, and DIDs and compatible with any raw storage protocol like Filecoin or Arweave, all information stored on Ceramic exists within a permissionless cross-chain network that lets developers tap into an ever growing library of identities and data while using their preferred stack.

Ceramic

Decentralized secure gossip platform.

"In P2P spaces, your friends are the data center. Data get wiped? Resync it from your friends. Lose your private key? Piece together the shards from your friends. That radical interdependence with real people that we trust can remove our dependency on corporate cloud providers. This feels important; an undoing of decades of capitalist efforts to isolate us and separate us from each other. P2P technology can help people reconnect with each other on a human beings level."

Scuttlebutt

The user-friendly blockchain for deploying programmable money and unstoppable applications.

Elrond is a novel blockchain architecture which goes beyond the state of the art by introducing a genuine state sharding scheme for practical scalability, eliminating energy and computational waste while ensuring distributed fairness through a Secure Proof of Stake (SPoS) consensus.

Having a strong focus on security, Elrond’s network ensures mathematically verifiable resistance to known security problems like Sybil attack, Rogue-key attack, Nothing at Stake attack and others.
In an ecosystem that strives for interconnectivity, our solution for smart contracts offers an EVM compliant engine to ensure interoperability by design.

Preliminary simulations suggest that Elrond exceeds Visa’s average throughput and achieves an improvement of three orders of magnitude or 1000x compared to the existing viable approaches, while drastically reducing the costs of bootstrapping and storage to ensure long term sustainability.

Elrond

Stacks is a new decentralized internet where users own their data and apps run locally.                     Take back control over your digital life. A browser is all you need to get started.

Stacks makes Bitcoin programmable, enabling decentralized apps and smart contracts that inherit all of Bitcoin’s powers.

Stacks

Carry makes personal data fair for consumers, marketers and merchants. Carry protocol that powers the next generation of apps for offline retail, delivering real incentives that enable consumers, merchants and advertisers alike.

CRE (pronounced "carry") is the main token in the Carry Protocol. Consumers can use it as currency to pay merchants within the Carry ecosystem. Merchants use it to create branded tokens or smart contracts. Consumers receive CRE from 3rd party advertisers, as payment for accessing the consumers’ transaction data blockchains. And this is all acheived without lifting the veil of anonymity.

Carry

essenceProtocol is reinventing digital rights management. Traditionally, we have relied on centralised systems to connect content creators with consumers, track digital assets and pay royalties. This old system, while functional, is inefficient and often ends with both creators and their patrons getting a raw deal.  We are harnessing the power of blockchain technology to change that.  

By using a token ecology, blockchain and peer-to-peer networks, we aim to build a new culture economy.  The digital world is undergoing a crypto revolution and we want you to join us as we innovate to establish a true value proposition to the intellectual property market, one that rewards creators and is governed by community consensus.

The essenceProtocol foundation is developing the underlying infrastructure for BiXong, a forward thinking marketplace transforming music royalties into a liquid asset class. The BiXong token (STRM) enables music lovers to buy and sell music royalties of their favourite artists on the proprietary exchange, earn proportionate royalties as they’re distributed and speculate on up and coming artists success. With community prosperity as our core ethos, the innovative exchange and integrated music streaming platform is designed to maximise user profitability and engage a transparent, long tail business model which benefits music creators and consumers alike.

Mechanism

Building on Bitcoin with Stacks.

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