HARMONY - Building a High Performance Consensus Platform

Hello everyone, this new post I want to introduce about a very interesting and good project that is Harmony, and for more details, let's just go to the following discussion:

What is Harmony?

Harmony is an open infrastructure for 10B people in the future. Harmony builds a high-performance consensus platform that will enable decentralized economies for everyone.

Feature

Open infrastructure for the world's data
Global-scale marketplace platform
Enabling decentralized and trustless economies

Decentralization at Scale

Our goal is to deliver scalability and decentralization. The promise of blockchain is to enable decentralized coordination at scale but no platform has yet been able to achieve both. Harmony aims to change that.

Similar to the way Google vertically integrates its search infrastructure, we take a full stack approach to solve consensus at scale. We apply 10x innovations at every layer in consensus algorithms, systems and networking to maximize the performance of our network while maintaining decentralization. Our end-to-end integration allows us to iterate faster and make more aggressive optimizations than could be done with a modular approach.

Our Technology

We believe scalability requires optimization across multiple layers. Our full-stack approach applies 10x innovations in networking, systems, and consensus algorithms.

Consensus Protocol

Our consensus protocol uses design principles such as sharding and pipelining to parallelize transaction processing. This allows us to effectively handle connection latency and enables our throughput to scale with the size of our network.

Systems

We are developing a lean, mission specific kernel to run our protocol with increased CPU performance and security. This will also allow a broader set of devices to participate in consensus for a more decentralized network.

Networking

We implement network engineering techniques for smarter message propagation and faster consensus formation. An understanding of network topology allows us to run a highly concurrent protocol.

Harmony for One and All

After having worked at some of the best technology companies, we’ve come together to solve the most exciting technical problems. We share an entrepreneurial spirit, and a hunger to create solutions that matter.

Our mission is to bring open consensus to 10 billion people. It’s something we’ll tell our grandkids about, and we want to have fun making it happen.

Harmony Roadmap