Harmony is an open and fast blockchain. Their mainnet runs Ethereum applications with 2-second transaction finality and 100 times lower fees.
Scalable, Secure & Decentralized Harmony balances these three critical pillars with secure, random state sharding. Security against single shard attacks is guaranteed by leveraging 250 nodes per shard and cryptographic randomness to re-shard regularly.
Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) and cryptography primitives are fundamental innovations for Web3’s future. We created the zkDAO and zkU courses to bring the best research to production and educate our open community of developers.
Vision 2026 LATEST FROM STEPHEN Vision 2026 Harmony is scaling Web3 infrastructure of DeFi and NFT by bringing ZKPs to production and decentralizing governance by funding thousands of DAOs.
2022 Roadmap 2022 Q1 Trustless Bitcoin bridge ZKProof course Social NFT wallet Staking contract Cross-Chain to OpenSea
2022 Q2 “Blue To Fly” social tokens Elastic endpoints Game shard Opolis for DAOs
● Fully Scalable: Harmony shards not only the network communication and transaction validation like Zilliqa, but also shards the blockchain state. This makes Harmony a fully scalable blockchain. ● Secure Sharding: Harmony’s sharding process is provably secure thanks to the distributed randomness generation (DRG) process which is unpredictable, unbiaseable, verifiable and scalable. Harmony also reshards the network in a non-interruptive manner to prevent against slowly adaptive byzantine adversaries. ● Efficient and Fast Consensus: Unlike other sharding-based blockchains which require PoW to select validators, Harmony is based on PoS and thus energy efficient. Consensus is reached with a linearly scalable BFT algorithm that’s 100 times faster than PBFT. ● Adaptive-Thresholded PoS: The threshold of stakes required for a node to join the network is adjusted based on the volume of total staking in a way that malicious stakers cannot concentrate their power in a single shard. Moreover, the threshold is low enough so that small stakers can still participate in the network and earn rewards. ● Scalable Networking Infrastructure: With RaptorQ fountain code, Harmony can propagate blocks quickly within shards or across network by using the Adaptive Information Dispersal Algorithm. Harmony also adopts Kademlia routing to achieve cross-shard transactions that scale logarithmically with the number of shards. ● Consistent Cross-Shard Transactions: Harmony supports cross-shard transactions with shards directly communicating with each other.
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