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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.

Michael Karnjanaprakorn

Rising Tide

Applied Crypto Ventures

Visary Capital

Chain Capital

Nogle Capital Management

East Chain Co.

P2P Capital

Alphanode Capital

Kal Vepuri

Hiro

Translunar One

HashKey Capital

Version One

Oyster Ventures

Frontier Ventures

IOSG Ventures

Youbi Capital

zk Capital

Fenbushi Digital

LUX Capital

Compound VC

Continue Capital

Fabric Ventures

Huobi Ventures

June Fund

Blockchain Capital

Diwaker Gupta

Gina Abrams

Patrick Stanley

Jude Nelson

Ryan Shea

Muneeb Ali

Xan Ditkoff

Stacks

Stacks Accelerator

Signature Fund

App.co

State-of-the-art consensus engine. Byzantine-fault tolerant state machine replication. Or blockchain, for short.

All in Bits, Inc (which also does business as Tendermint, Inc., a Delaware for-profit corporation, hereafter referred to as the "Company") is the creator of Tendermint, a blockchain consensus project, as well as related products such as Ethermint.

The Company was founded in 2014 by Jae Kwon to explore the commercialization of the Tendermint consensus algorithm he developed in 2014. Since 2017, the company has been contracted by the Interchain Foundation to deliver the initial version of the Cosmos Network (hereafter referred to as "Cosmos") for the launch of the Cosmos Hub. Maturing the Cosmos software stack has been the Company's principal focus in 2017 and 2018.

At Tendermint, we build software for high-value public blockchains like the Cosmos Network. Our team consists of world class software developers, researchers and network operators.

As we progress towards the launch of Cosmos, it becomes important that the emerging Cosmos ecosystem have clarity on the role of the Company. All of the Cosmos-related technologies developed for the ICF are open source and permissively licensed. Anyone is free to build on top of it.

The Company will continue to be a partner and service provider to the ICF in supporting the development of Cosmos.

When acting on behalf of the ICF, the Company will strive to fairly support all participants in the Cosmos ecosystem and users of Cosmos technologies.

The Company will continue to develop technologies for Cosmos and, in general, continue to enrich the blockchain ecosystem for new clients and for its own business interests.

Tendermint

The smart asset blockchain. World class platform for asset management.

NEM is built from scratch as a powerful and streamlined platform for application developers of all kinds, not just as a digital currency. Using NEM in your application is as simple as making RESTful JSON API calls allowing you to configure your own "Smart Assets" and make use of NEM’s powerful blockchain platform as your fast, secure and scalable solution.

Configured for your use, NEM is suitable for an amazing variety of solution classes, such as direct public transactions via streamlined smartphone app, efficient cloud services that connect client or web applications, or a high-performance permissioned enterprise back-end for business-critical record keeping.

Charlie Lee is Creator of Litecoin, ex-Director of Engineering at Coinbase.

Lee created Litecoin while working at Google, where he served as a Software Engineer. He worked on YouTube, Chrome, and Play Games.

Although Lee was immediately excited by cryptocurrency, he was unhappy with the early altcoins. He claimed that most didn’t offer any true differences or advantages over Bitcoin.

Thus, Lee created Litecoin in 2011. Its Scrypt proof of work function was meant to keep mining distributed and fair. Unlike most altcoins at the time, Litecoin was launched publically and had no premine. Lee also cut Litecoin’s block time from Bitcoin’s 10 minutes to 2.5 minutes.

Despite being the creator of Litecoin, Lee claims “that in order for Litecoin to succeed, Bitcoin must first become adopted by the mass”. He currently spends about 95% of his time working on Bitcoin projects.

Charlie Lee

StarkWare Industries. Bringing transparent privacy and scalability to a blockchain near you.

StarkWare

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

Serverless Hosting Incentivised Peer-To-Peer Storage And Content Distribution.

Swarm is a distributed storage platform and content distribution service, a native base layer service of the ethereum web3 stack. The primary objective of Swarm is to provide a decentralized and redundant store for dapp code and data as well as block chain and state data. Swarm is also set out to provide various base layer services for web3, including node-to-node messaging, media streaming, decentralised database services and scalable state-channel infrastructure for decentralised service economies.

Swarm

Truebit is an open source community committed to appreciation, understanding, and implementation of cryptoeconomic protocols and scalable, blockchain infrastructure.

TrueBit gives Ethereum smart contracts a computational boost. Don't let Ethereum's gas limit drag your imagination!

While smart contracts can perform small computations correctly, large computation tasks pose security risks for blockchains. Truebit counteracts this shortcoming via a trustless, retrofitting oracle which correctly performs computational tasks. Any smart contract can issue a computation task to this oracle in the form of WebAssembly bytecode, while anonymous “miners” receive rewards for correctly solving the task.

The oracle’s protocol guarantees correctness in two layers: a unanimous consensus layer where anyone can object to faulty solutions, and an on-chain mechanism which incentivizes participation and ensures fair remuneration. These components formally manifest themselves through a combination of novel, off-chain architecture and on-chain smart contracts.

Rather than relying on external, cryptographic proofs of correctness, Truebit leverages game theoretic principles to effectively increase the on-chain computation power of existing networks.

TrueBit

Polkadot is a heterogeneous multi‑chain technology. It consists of many parachains with potentially differing characteristics which can make it easier to achieve anonymity or formal verification. Specialised parachains called bridges can be created to link independent chains.

Polkadot

The Graph is a protocol for building decentralized applications quickly on Ethereum and IPFS using GraphQL.

We're building The Graph because we've seen the challenges in getting data off blockchains. We envision The Graph as a truly decentralized ecosystem where the community can collaborate on curating quality data sources available to all. Together we can build a new generation of the web free from data silos and monopolies.

The Graph