Infrastructure

Startups

Monad is the world's most Performant Layer 1 EVM-Compatible Blockchain, a tech startup using low-latency programming, compiler optimization, and multithreaded computing to build an ultra-high-performance smart contract platform.

We are on a mission to enable the next generation of decentralized apps for the next generation of blockchain users—more complex apps requiring higher compute budgets, providing services to many more people.

James Hunsaker

Keone Hon

Monad

ThunderCore’s Testnet is now live. High TPS, sub-second confirmations, and maximum security. All with full EVM-compatibility. Unleash your DApp—or build for tomorrow—starting today.

ThunderCore is its own blockchain with its own native cryptocurrency. Developed by industry-leading experts, it is EVM-compatible with throughput of 1,200+ TPS, sub-second confirmation times, and low gas costs—making it quick and easy for DApps to deploy and scale.

The beauty of ThunderCore lies in its extremely simple protocol. Based on years of groundbreaking research by Professors Shi and Pass, every step of the protocol is fully specified and backed by rigorous mathematical proofs.

Consensus Nodes complete a single round of voting to confirm transactions in under a second. The accelerator-- a robust, DDoS-resilient distributed system-- coordinates the network of consensus nodes. Importantly, users do not need to trust the accelerator nor the consensus nodes; they only need to trust the honest majority.

ThunderCore

Cobalt is a multi-award winning financial technology start-up focused on re-engineering the institutional FX market from the ground up.

Post-trade infrastructure in FX is aging, inefficient and unfit for today’s market. It relies on cumbersome, manual processes and aged technology which pose significant operational and systemic risk to the FX market.

This is exemplified by huge amounts of unnecessary replication. A single trade creates multiple records for all parties, introducing inconsistencies throughout lifecycle events.

Cobalt takes a fresh approach to financial infrastructure and has been developed to replace aged current middle and back office systems which are disorderly, inefficient, risk-laden and costly.

Cobalt delivers a shared back and middle office infrastructure based on a unique combination of low latency and shared ledger technology. By creating a shared view of trade data, Cobalt frees up back and middle office resources from multiple layers of reconciliation; generating one immutable record of FX transactions from which to provide multiple services.

The platform is scalable, secure and fast – slashing cost and risk by 80% for the $5tn a day market.

This is the future of financial services: signed, sealed, delivered.

Cobalt

FANTOM is the world's first DAG based smart contract platform that solves the issue of scalability and confirmation time of the existing blockchain technology.

FANTOM

Clarion aims to give everyone in the world the tools to broadcast their message to everyone who wants to hear their message without creating dependencies on centralized infrastructure. It will achieve this with a censorship resistant "friend to friend" network which will leverage the unused resources of your friends and family to distribute your content.

The ultimate goal is to provide the performance and reliability of a "centralized service" with the freedom and independence of a logically decentralized network. With the help of the Clarion community we can free our friends and family from the tyranny of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Amazon, Apple and Google and produce a social network free from manipulation and 3rd party dependence.

Clarion learns lessons from other projects, including RetroShare, Hive (previously SteemIt ), and Voice. RetroShare is far closer to the desired level of decentralization, but has a clunky interface that isn't viable on mobile. Meanwhile, blockchain based networks are "logically centralized" and require all full nodes to process all transactions. This is not suitable for home users at scale and creates dependencies on a small number of web portals.

One of the more successful decentralized protocols is IPFS and IPNS. These P2P protocols facilitate the publishing of location independent websites; however, they have a couple of drawbacks. Among these drawbacks are the need to keep your own node online in order to seed your content -- there is no free way to "push to IPFS". There is also a high latency to looking up content. Lastly, there is not really an opportunity for dynamic multi-user interaction.

Protocols like Zeronet provide an application framework to build dynamic websites which are loaded/shared over the BitTorrent protocol. My experience with Zeronet is that it doesn't work well on Mobile, it takes a long time to "sync" pages, and suffers from excessive spam or and moderation. At scale, a Zeronet application is just a logically centralized as a blockchain application.

The core of the Clarion OS is a friend-to-friend message propagation protocol that enables the following kinds of message flows between cryptographic identities:

asynchronous person to person (like email)
realtime person to person (video/chat)
one to many (like tweet/Facebook)
many to many (like an open chatroom / blockchain)

Utilizing Web Assembly plugins it should be possible to build many different kinds of applications on top of Clarion OS, including tokens and smart contracts. A key distinction between Clarion OS and prior blockchain platforms is that the base layer has no need to reach consensus on the "order" of user actions nor to interpret the meaning of transactions. If typical Ethereum and EOS smart contracts are considered "layer 1", then Clarion OS could be considered "layer 0".

Clarion

Qtum is an open source Blockchain project that is developed by the Singapore-based Qtum Foundation. Qtum is a hybrid blockchain application platform. Qtum uses proof-of-stake consensus, meaning node operators are rewarded for validating transactions.

QTUM

The Telegram Open Network (TON) is a fast, secure and scalable blockchain and network project, capable of handling millions of transactions per second if necessary, and both user-friendly and service provider-friendly. We aim for it to be able to host all reasonable applications currently proposed and
conceived. One might think about TON as a huge distributed supercomputer, or rather a huge “superserver”, intended to host and provide a variety of services.

Telegram Open Network

Tolar is an open source, community governed crypto-currency featuring scalable, fast, secure, and fair transactions.

Tolar

"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

Nxt is an advanced blockchain platform which builds on and improves the basic functionality of pioneering cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and others. 

Nxt revolutionizes the financial technology, crowdfunding and governance industries by providing not only the groundbreaking NXT crypto-currency but also offering a powerful, modular toolset that gives users complete freedom to create their own applications based on features like Decentralized Market Place, Decentralized Asset Creation and Exchange, Decentralized Monetary System, Decentralized Voting, and Decentralized Data Storage.

The Nxt blockchain platform, born in 2013, is developed and constantly improved by Jelurida, and has a strong and loyal community behind represented by the Ardor Nxt Group (ANG).