Alephium, the first operational sharded blockchain bringing scalability, ETH-inspired smart contracts, and improved energy efficiency to Bitcoin’s proven core technologies, has launched its mainnet just two months after announcing the closing of $3.6M pre-sale.

Cheng Wang is the Core Developer of Alephium.

“After over 3 years of development under the radar, we are proud to announce the launch of the Alephium Mainnet. It’s made to support powerful, scalable yet user-friendly decentralized applications and protocols. We welcome the community of developers and miners to join us in improving the ecosystem one project at a time.”
The number of blockchain innovations on Alephium’s mainnet is impressive. BlockFlow sharding technology powers Alephium’s blockchain. It is based upon stateful UTXO transaction. Alephium can be used in single-step, cross-shard transactions to make it as simple and user-friendly as any single-chain Blockchain while also spreading transaction loads.

The platform’s consensus algorithm is a clever combination of physical work and token economics, coined “Proof of Less Work”, which ensures a reduced energy footprint when compared to standard PoW protocols.

Its stateful UTXO (stateful UTXO) model combines both the benefits of the account and UTXO models. This allows for multiple participants to be included in a smart contract transaction and permits trustless P2P smart transactions. With enhanced performance and security protection, the new virtual machine solves many of today’s critical issues with dApps platforms.

M. Wang also added to the mainnet.

“Alephium offers a whole new programming paradigm for decentralized applications, ideally suited for performance-oriented and secure DeFI. Leveraging Alephium’s custom virtual machine, DApps can now benefit from the security offered by the stateful UTXO model without sacrificing the power and expressiveness of smart contracts”.
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