Some Praise for Harmony

Lucian
Lucian
Nov 4 · 3 min read

The Harmony team is currently made up of 4 PhD holders, 8 ex-google/amazon/apple/facebook employees, 2 Harvard-graduated MBAs, and computer science graduates from Stanford University and UC Berkley. Because of their strong credentials, they have attracted some attention from a few notable figures in the cryptocurrency world.

Note: This article was originally posted on HarmonyNews.com.

Charles Hoskinson, Co-founder of Ethereum and Founder of Cardano

“Had EOS released a whitepaper like Harmony: https://harmony.one/whitepaper.pdf then I would have least said hey had some interesting ideas. I really wish people brought more rigor and made better use of active research in their product development.” — Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) May 23, 2019

Vitalik Buterin, Co-founder of Ethereum

“Interesting! I’ve thought before about using non-censorship of transactions as a soft validity condition for blocks, but my conclusion has generally been that it would lead to too much network instability if there’s disagreement about what txs have been published. But using censorship detection as an input to vote on view changes is an interesting approach!”

Comment in response to Staking Mechanism and Token Incentives Design of Harmony(May 2019)

Some of the Harmony team sitting in the second row at the recent San Francisco Blockchain Week, 2019.

Zaki Manian, Head of Research at Tendermint of Cosmos Network

“As far as I can tell, Harmony is the first blockchain with a functional PBFT view change.” — Zaki Manian (@zmanian) June 9, 2019

Eric Ly, Co-founder of LinkedIn

“honored to be interviewed by @hubtoken ceo @ericly (cofounder/ex-cto of @LinkedIn, @generalmagicco) on google’s #tgi culture, open community, data sharing vs #privacy and @binance ieo. visionary yet humble, eric embodies the original magic of #hungry & #foolish in silicon valley.” — Harmony CEO, Stephen Tse (@stse) July 20, 2019

Michael K. Spencer, Prolific Author and Futurist

Upon meeting the Harmony team, Spencer say that “Silicon Valley is getting serious about the blockchain…” and writes glowingly about his positive experience talking to team members of Harmony when it was still much younger.

Read more at What is the Harmony Protocol? (August 2018).

Alexander Skidanov, Co-founder of NEAR Protocol

“Harmony builds a sharded blockchain and is based on many state of the art techniques, such as using VDFs for unbiasable randomness and leveraging RaptorQ for faster block propagation.”

Read more of Skidanov’s assessment of Harmony at Harmony Protocol Review (May 2019)

Joshua Larson, Writer for Hacked

“What I can tell you after looking deep into this company is these guys are ‘THE REAL DEAL HOLYFIELD,’ and this project has the potential to be a top 5 token for all of crypto.”

Read more at ICO Analysis: Harmony (June 2018)

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