| Crypto Currency: | Algorand |
|---|---|
| Trading Ticker: | ALGO |
| Date last Reviewed: | 28/12/2020 |
Objective Of Product:
- A Layer 1 Crypto currency with smart contract capability
- Our consensus model is permissionless and pure proof-of-stake. It creates full transparency, protection, and speed within a truly decentralized network. With blocks finalized in seconds, Algorand’s transaction throughput is on par with large payment and financial networks. And Algorand is the first blockchain to provide immediate transaction finality. No forking. No uncertainty.
- Papers based out of Cornell university
- Has produced several white papers nit just a paper on the original platform but also on key design elements.
- Algorand is based on (a novel and super fast) message-passing Byzantine agreement.
- Several techniques to manage blockchain-based ledgers have been proposed: proof of work [29], proof of stake [2], practical Byzantine fault-tolerance [8], or some combination.
- We call our approach Algorand, because we use algorithmic randomness to select, based on the ledger constructed so far, a set of verifiers who are in charge of constructing the next block of valid transactions. Naturally, we ensure that such selections are provably immune from manipulations and unpredictable until the last minute, but also that they ultimately are universally clear.
- Algorand’s approach is quite democratic, in the sense that neither in principle nor de facto it creates different classes of users (as “miners” and “ordinary users” in Bitcoin). In Algorand “all power resides with the set of all users”.
- One notable property of Algorand is that its transaction history may fork only with very small probability (e.g., one in a trillion, that is, or even 10−18). Algorand can also address some legal and political concerns.
White Paper Notes:
- Permissionless and Permissioned Environments. Algorand works efficiently and securely even in a totally permissionless environment, where arbitrarily many users are allowed to join the system at any time, without any vetting or permission of any kind. Of course, Algorand works even better in a permissioned environment.
- Works as long as 2/3 of users are honest
- All power resides with the users themselves. Algorand is a truy distributed system. In particular, there are no exogenous entities (as the “miners” in Bitcoin), who can control which transactions are recognized.
- New blocks take less than 10 minutes
- The amount of users and transactions is irrelevant and infinitely scalable
- Verification users are chosen at random
- As new block leaders are chosen at random and create the block and distribute it. A malicious attacker could not change this as by the time they know the block already exists it already been handed out to everyone who will in turn verify it.
- Lazy honesty: the programme can work with a large amount of users being offline.
- Other systems including cardano needs the majority of users to be online all the time and is much more susceptible to forks.
- Ideal hashing (fast and secure)
- Digital signing allows users to authenticate each other without exposing secret keys.
- Digital signitures are used for: Authentication users own payments, Generating credentials proving that it can act in certain processes, authenticating messages
- Idealized public ledger:
- The Initial status: money is associated with individual public keys
- Payments: this is just a simple ledger transaction
- Free joining via payments: Any user may join for free by generating public/ secret key pairs
- The magic ledger: All payments appear “in the sky” for all to see in a valid tamper proof list which is formed into a block and added to the pervious block after a set period of time forming the chain.
- Algorand allows for unspent balances to be logged without computation in bitcoin it sends any unspent balance back to itself to log it on the blockchain wasting power.
- Has looked at partitioning of network
Real World Applications including existing partnerships:
Team:
Git Hub Activity and road maps:
2021
- Block proposal time 0.5 seconds
- Block finalization times 4.5 seconds, 2.5 by 2021
- Finalized TPS at 1,000 to grow to 45,000
Capital investment/ funding - USV Investor
- Pillar Investor
- 11.11 ventures Investor
- Applied Crypto ventures Investor
- Lvna Capital Investor
- Bixin Capital Investor
- Continue capital Investor
- Brainchild Investor
- Cmb international Investor
- CPC Investor
- Eterna Investor
- Mozaik capital Investor
- Foundation capital Investor
- Hex capital Investor
- Leminscap Investor
- Meta stable Investor
- Multi coin capital Investor
- Neo global capital Investor
- New style capital Investor
- P2p capital Investor
- QCP capital Investor
- Spark pool Investor
- Transference fund Investor
- Wing Investor
- Youbi capital Investor
- 3.0 capital Investor
- Nirvana capital Investor
- Kosmos Investor
- IMO ventures Investor
- Cognitive blockchain Investor
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- IBF DigiLabs: An initiative of IBF Net (The Islamic Business and Finance Network) to leverage research and technology for a halal ecosystem. Development partner/ consultant
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- Ulam Labs Ulam Labs is a software development company made of Python and Blockchain experts. We focus on custom software development, DevOps, consulting and outsourcing to ensure the best service and support for our clients. Development partner/ consultant
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