Overview
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What is Elrond
Abstract - The advent of secure public blockchains through Bitcoin and later Ethereum, has brought forth a notable degree of interest and capital influx, providing the premise for a global wave of permissionless innovation. Despite lofty promises, creating a decentralized, secure and scalable public blockchain has proved to be a strenuous task.
Elrond - a novel architecture which goes beyond state of the art by introducing a genuine state sharding scheme for practical scalability, eliminating energy and computational waste while ensuring distributed fairness through a Secure Proof of Stake (SPoS) consensus. Having a strong focus on security, Elrond’s network is built to ensure resistance to known security problems like Sybil attack, Rogue-key attack, Nothing at Stake attack and others. In an ecosystem that strives for interconnectivity, our solution for smart contracts offers an EVM compliant engine to ensure interoperability by design.
Preliminary simulations reflect that Elrond exceeds Visa’s average throughput and achieves an improvement of three orders of magnitude or 1000x compared to the existing viable approaches, while drastically reducing the costs of bootstrapping and storage to ensure long term sustainability.
Defining the challenges
Several challenges must be addressed properly in the process of creating an innovative public blockchain solution designed to scale:
Starting from the above challenges, we’ve created Elrond as a complete rethinking of public blockchain infrastructure, specifically designed to be secure, efficient, scalable and interoperable. Elrond’s main contribution rests on two cornerstone building blocks:
DetailsPre-sales: Mar 25, 2019 - Apr 10, 2019Public sales: Jun 22, 2019 - Jul 01, 2019 IEO (Binance Launchpad): Jul 02, 2019 - Jul 02, 2019 Total tokens for sale: 20,000,000,000 ELR Hard cap: 4,750,000 USD Raised: 1,900,000 USD LegalBlockchain Platform: Ethereum | Token infoTicker: ELRToken standard: ERC20 Token price in USD: 1 ERD = 0.00165 USD Accepted currencies: ETH, EUR, BTC, USD |