Harmony Overview & Milestones.
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3 min readMay 6, 2019
Here’s an overview of Harmony’s progress in the last 12 months towards an organic community and our project mission. Come celebrate our anniversary!
Our vision is “Open Consensus for 10 Billion & Harmony for One and All”. Our mission is:
To scale trust for billions of people & create a radically fair economy
For more, see Harmony Annual Letter and monthly Harmony Newsletter.
Team & Culture
- Founding team of 7 in Silicon Valley, all engineers, full time & on site since 2018/06, security Penn PhD, Stanford/CMU AI, Harvard MBA, 4 ex-Google/Apple
- Core team of 12 (full time & on site), math PhD, 3 Amazon infra engineers
- Culture & values, “Open Consensus for 10B” brand, organic ex-Googler community
- Extended team of 36: 5 community leads, 7 content strategists, 2 reward organizers
- By CEO: annual letter, 2019 roadmap, 12 newsletters, pitch deck, SFBW talk
Community & Media
- For 2 years, 4-hour weekly TGI gathering: 1500+ guests (Cosmos, Quark, NKN, Draper)
- Channels: 11k telegram, 6k email, 3k twitter, 1k wechat, 9 translations
- 9 media partners: TokenInsight, 深链财经 Deepchain, 链闻 Chainnews, SNEK
- 25 articles in 2019Q2: 金色, 火星, 晚点, 蓝狐, coindesk, briefing, hackernoon, steemit
- Asia tours: SZ/BJ 2018Q1, BJ/SH 2018Q3, Binance SG/VN 2019Q1, BJ/KR 2019Q2
Development & Technology
- Open source & 3 testnets since 2019/01, 16 contributors, 2.8k commits, 113 stars
- Strong ETH 2.0 contender: state sharding & secure PoS (300 signups for open nodes)
- Resharding w/ network randomness, optimal cross-shard routing, rateless erasure code
- Open Platform for Data Sharing help business form data consortia / credit agencies
Partners & Tokens
- Channel partner Contentos (60M users) for launching Harmony Puzzle w/ 10k users
- Signed partners: Animoca (game assets), Rymedi (FDA-approved prescription tracking), Timeless (calendar-based services), CoinXP/Quanta (decentralized exchanges)
- Token model: 34.3% ecosystem, 26.4% protocol dev, 22.4% seed investors, 16.9% team
- Team tokens vesting 4 years & unlocking from 2020
Progress & Roadmap
- 2018/Q2: $18M seed (Qtum 帅初, UVA 李江, Lemniscap), 10k tx/sec & 10k nodes benchmark
- 2018/Q3: branding, 118k tx/sec & 41k nodes benchmark, research roadmap, china tour
- 2018/Q4: 1.3-sec block propagation benchmark, SFBW talk, neuroscience research, devnet/wallet/explorer launch
- 2019/01: open source, whitepaper 2.0, discourse forum, community badges
- 2019/02: testnet 1.0, foundational node, Binance Fair SG, Jakarta/Saigon tour, tech whiteboard
- 2019/03: testnet 2.0, ETHDenver Most Innovative, $1M technical bounty, token economy
- 2019/04: testnet 3.0, Harmony Lottery, community bounty, partners, faq
- 2019/05: game of stakes, validator calls (6% inflation), consensus nyc
- 2019/Q2: Puzzle game, 8x on Binance launchpad, $16M daily on DEX, market making, 100 operators, throttled mainnet launch
- 2019/Q3: Kademlia routing, rateless erasure code, fast state sync, WASM, full mainnet launch, mainstream games
- 2019/Q4: Porting zero-knowledge proof dApps, production services for partners, ops/monitor, confidential assets
For more, see Harmony Annual Letter and monthly Harmony Newsletter.
