Shai Mohaban

Raven is creating a network of compute nodes that utilize idle compute power for the purposes of AI training where speed is the key. AI companies will be able to train models better and faster. We developed a completely new approach to distribution that speeds up a training run of 1M images and brings it down to a few hours. We solve latency by chunking the data into really small pieces (bytes), maintaining its identity, and then distributing it across the host of devices with a call to action: gradient calculations. Other solutions require high-end compute power. Our approach has no dependency on the system specs of each compute node in the network. Thus, we can utilize idle computer power on normal desktops, laptops, and mobile devices allowing anyone in the world to contribute to the Raven Protocol network. This will bring costs down to a fraction of what you need to pay for traditional cloud services. Most importantly, this means Raven will create the first truly distributed and scalable solution to AI training by speeding up the training process. Our consensus mechanism is something we call Proof-of-Calculation. Proof-of-Calculation will be the primary guideline for the regulation and distribution of incentives to the compute nodes in the network. Following are the two prime deciders for the incentive distribution: Speed: Depending upon how fast a node can perform gradient calculations (in a neural network) and return it back to the Gradient Collector. Redundancy: The 3 fastest redundant calculation will only qualify for receiving the incentive. This will make sure that the gradients that are getting returned are genuine and of the highest quality.

MultiversX is a complete rethinking of public blockchain infrastructure, specifically designed to be secure, efficient, scalable and interoperable. MultiversX’s main contribution rests on two cornerstone building blocks: 1) A genuine Adaptive State Sharding approach: effectively partitioning the chain state into multiple shards, handled in parallel by different participating validators; 2) Secure Proof of Stake consensus mechanism: an improved variation of Proof of Stake (PoS) that ensures long term security and distributed fairness, while eliminating the need for energy intensive PoW algorithms. Our technology is aimed at developers, wide public and enterprises. Developers can use it to create decentralised applications and run smart contracts on our blockchain network. The wide public can use MultiversX as a user-friendly gateway to the digital economy. MultiversX is also attractive for businesses seeking an enterprise solution that can lower (human capital based) costs with benefits such as speed, security and scalability.

Harmony is a fast and scalable blockchain. Harmony recently launched on Binance and shipped Day ONE Mainnet. We are crazily recruiting Rust/Go language enthusiasts, protocol researchers and database hackers. Apply at harmony.one/careers! See https://harmony.one/whitepaper for our latest research and roadmap. Harmony is a fast and secure blockchain with key innovations in state sharding and peer-to-peer networking. Its sharding uses secure proof-of-stake and decentralized randomness, and its networking achieves optimal cross-shard routing and fast block propagation. Harmony helps businesses build marketplaces of fungible tokens (such as energy credits and loyalty points) and non-fungible assets (such as game collectibles and real estate). Harmony is applying zero-knowledge proofs for data sharing while preserving the consumer’s privacy. Common industry use cases include ad exchanges, credit ratings and many other data consortia that would otherwise take many years to form among competing companies.

BEAM is based on Mimblewimble – an elegant protocol released by an anonymous developer in 2016. Named after a tongue-tying spell from the Harry Potter saga, Mimblewimble uses Pedersen Commitment scheme for full anonymity and zero-knowledge range proofs to ensure validity of transaction amounts. To enhance privacy and reduce the blockchain size, Mimblewimble merges all intermediate outputs within a single block and across multiple blocks, thus only storing the current UTXO state and making the blockchain size an order of magnitude smaller than in other leading currencies. BEAM team implemented Mimblewimble from scratch using C++. BEAM blocks are mined using memory-hard Equihash Proof-of-Work algorithm. The block time is 1 minute on taver- age.

Dusk is the Privacy Blockchain for Financial Applications. A new standard for compliance, control and collaboration. Our mission is to enable any size enterprise to collaborate at scale, meet compliance requirements and ensure that personal and transaction data remains confidential. Companies use the Dusk blockchain to issue tokens, trade and collaborate via smart contracts. Founded by Jelle Pol, Emanuele Francioni, Mels Dees, Pascal Putman and Fulvio Venturelli, the company raised more than EUR €7M in 2018. Dusk is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 

ChromaWay was founded in 2014 and is an early pioneer of what is now dubbed as "blockchain 2.0"​ technology. With great blockchain experts ChromaWay provides a platform for smart contracts and issuing and transferring assets through a blockchain. ChromaWay has been working with the Swedish Land Registry and other institutions and financial companies to provide smart contract solutions for the real estate field. Among many other successes, ChromaWay presented Postchain, a consortium database. Follow ChromaWay for many upcoming products and partnerships with governments, institutions and companies around the world.

Ankr is an all-in-one Web3 development hub that provides a full suite of tools for any organization to build new decentralized apps and power them with high-performance connections to 45+ blockchains. Top clients like Microsoft, Tencent Cloud, Optimism, Polygon, Binance, and Messari trust Ankr’s global node infrastructure to supply the fastest and most reliable connection to every major Web3 network. With 2T blockchain requests served annually, Ankr enables a massive share of all Web3 traffic, paving the way for a more decentralized, open, and user-owned internet.

The Hifi Lending Protocol allows anyone to borrow against their crypto. Hifi uses a bond-like instrument, representing an on-chain obligation that settles on a specific future date. Buying and selling the tokenized debt enables fixed-rate, fixed-term lending and borrowing — something much needed in decentralized finance today.

Governed by the worlds leading organizations, Hedera provides a trust layer for AI, digital payments, tokenization, and more.

Origin Protocol builds permissionless DeFi products for enhanced yield on ETH and stablecoins. Origin’s flagship product is Origin Ether (OETH), a highly composable liquid staking token with substantially higher yield than other LSTs. Origin Protocol is the inventor of the yield-bearing stablecoin, OUSD, and Super OETH, the 1st Supercharged LST on Base. All of Origin’s products accrue value to Origin Token (OGN). Origin Protocol is backed by top venture capitalists and cryptocurrency funds, as well as many well-known Silicon Valley angels. We have a fast-paced bias-to-action culture, diverse core team, and global community. Our world-class team is led by entrepreneurs and engineers from iconic tech companies including Google, YouTube, PayPal and Dropbox.

Pure instant messaging — simple, fast, secure, and synced across all your devices.

Ocean Protocol is a decentralized data exchange protocol that unlocks data for AI. Ocean Protocol uses advanced blockchain technology that allows data to be shared and sold in a safe, secure and transparent manner. We enable a decentralized platform and network that connects providers and consumers of valuable data, while providing open access for developers to build services. Ocean Protocol uses a thoughtful application of both technology and governance for more equitable outcomes for users of data. Our team combines a deep background in big data, blockchain, artificial intelligence and data exchanges, with real-world business experience as entrepreneurs, designers and technologists who have started over 20 companies.

Introducing Fr8 Network, a new paradigm for the US freight and global logistics industry. Fr8 Network is building a protocol, the Fr8 Protocol, and suite of product offerings, the Fr8 Marketplace, that provide vastly improved solutions for the logistics industry as a whole, leveraging blockchain technology at its core. Built with key logistics industry stakeholders, the Fr8 Protocol will enable a set of global standards and precisely targeted incentivization structure to provide benefit to actors throughout the supply chain. As a decentralized protocol layer that defines the rules and connectivity for communication and data management between logistics applications, this will allow any permissioned system to connect to the same data set as the single source of truth, creating seamless coordination and information flow among stakeholders. Fr8 Network is developing accessible blockchain-enabled proprietary enterprise solutions for shippers, carriers and brokers. Our focus is on providing tools, resources and data to small and mid-sized U.S. trucking businesses that were previously only available to the largest players.

tZERO Group, Inc. and its broker-dealer subsidiaries (tZERO) provide an innovative liquidity platform for private companies and assets. We offer institutional-grade solutions for issuers looking to digitize their capital table through blockchain technology, and trade on a regulated alternative trading system. tZERO democratizes access to private assets by providing a simple, automated, and efficient trading venue to broker-dealers, institutions, and investors.

Mode Ranks #1 in Software & #2 overall on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 List of North Americas fastest-growing companies with a 32,481% revenue growth from 2019-2022. We believe that every human on the planet deserves an equal opportunity to become financially self-sustaining. Therefore, we have developed earn-as-you-go software which enables supplemental income, democratizes access to capital, and increases the realization of financial potential for budget-conscious, financially-challenged, and underserved consumers globally. The word “Mode” represents the 16 modes by which people can get paid to help reach their financial potential – Surf, Music, News, Charge, Locked, Task, Fitness, Crypto, Share, Cash, Data, Finance, Save, Weather, Watch, and Game. Our Values: Action-Driven Curious Caring Thorough Our Norms: Allow OKRs to Guide Us. Assume Positive Intent Agree to Disagree & Commit Set New Precedents Accomplish More with Less Hold Yourself & Others to High Standards Speak Up Be Resourceful Follow the 80/20 Rule

Raven is creating a network of compute nodes that utilize idle compute power for the purposes of AI training where speed is the key. AI companies will be able to train models better and faster. We developed a completely new approach to distribution that speeds up a training run of 1M images and brings it down to a few hours. We solve latency by chunking the data into really small pieces (bytes), maintaining its identity, and then distributing it across the host of devices with a call to action: gradient calculations. Other solutions require high-end compute power. Our approach has no dependency on the system specs of each compute node in the network. Thus, we can utilize idle computer power on normal desktops, laptops, and mobile devices allowing anyone in the world to contribute to the Raven Protocol network. This will bring costs down to a fraction of what you need to pay for traditional cloud services. Most importantly, this means Raven will create the first truly distributed and scalable solution to AI training by speeding up the training process. Our consensus mechanism is something we call Proof-of-Calculation. Proof-of-Calculation will be the primary guideline for the regulation and distribution of incentives to the compute nodes in the network. Following are the two prime deciders for the incentive distribution: Speed: Depending upon how fast a node can perform gradient calculations (in a neural network) and return it back to the Gradient Collector. Redundancy: The 3 fastest redundant calculation will only qualify for receiving the incentive. This will make sure that the gradients that are getting returned are genuine and of the highest quality.

MultiversX is a complete rethinking of public blockchain infrastructure, specifically designed to be secure, efficient, scalable and interoperable. MultiversX’s main contribution rests on two cornerstone building blocks: 1) A genuine Adaptive State Sharding approach: effectively partitioning the chain state into multiple shards, handled in parallel by different participating validators; 2) Secure Proof of Stake consensus mechanism: an improved variation of Proof of Stake (PoS) that ensures long term security and distributed fairness, while eliminating the need for energy intensive PoW algorithms. Our technology is aimed at developers, wide public and enterprises. Developers can use it to create decentralised applications and run smart contracts on our blockchain network. The wide public can use MultiversX as a user-friendly gateway to the digital economy. MultiversX is also attractive for businesses seeking an enterprise solution that can lower (human capital based) costs with benefits such as speed, security and scalability.

Harmony is a fast and scalable blockchain. Harmony recently launched on Binance and shipped Day ONE Mainnet. We are crazily recruiting Rust/Go language enthusiasts, protocol researchers and database hackers. Apply at harmony.one/careers! See https://harmony.one/whitepaper for our latest research and roadmap. Harmony is a fast and secure blockchain with key innovations in state sharding and peer-to-peer networking. Its sharding uses secure proof-of-stake and decentralized randomness, and its networking achieves optimal cross-shard routing and fast block propagation. Harmony helps businesses build marketplaces of fungible tokens (such as energy credits and loyalty points) and non-fungible assets (such as game collectibles and real estate). Harmony is applying zero-knowledge proofs for data sharing while preserving the consumer’s privacy. Common industry use cases include ad exchanges, credit ratings and many other data consortia that would otherwise take many years to form among competing companies.

BEAM is based on Mimblewimble – an elegant protocol released by an anonymous developer in 2016. Named after a tongue-tying spell from the Harry Potter saga, Mimblewimble uses Pedersen Commitment scheme for full anonymity and zero-knowledge range proofs to ensure validity of transaction amounts. To enhance privacy and reduce the blockchain size, Mimblewimble merges all intermediate outputs within a single block and across multiple blocks, thus only storing the current UTXO state and making the blockchain size an order of magnitude smaller than in other leading currencies. BEAM team implemented Mimblewimble from scratch using C++. BEAM blocks are mined using memory-hard Equihash Proof-of-Work algorithm. The block time is 1 minute on taver- age.