HARMONY

HARMONY

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

• 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.

Latest Updates
We published our Whitepaper that elaborates our technology, research and key guiding principles.
We’ve built our founding engineering team that has deep experience in building large-scale infrastructure.
We’ve raised a private seed round to develop the core protocol and start engaging our early community.

Roadmap

• 2018 Q2

Whitepaper
Founding Team
Seed funding

• 2018 Q3 & Q4

Public benchmark: 10k tps on 10k nodes
Asia Events & Community Development
Open source, Testnet and Demo Applications

• 2019

Smart contract
Developer Programs
Mainnet Launch

Harmony Roadmap 2018 - 2019

The Harmony Team

• Stephen Tse  

A seasoned engineer with experience in Google, Microsoft and Apple, Stephen graduated with a doctoral degree in security protocols and compiler verification from UPenn.

• Nicolas Burtey  

Founder of a VR video startup that raised $10 million and grew to 40 employees, serving thousands of professional content creators in 70 countries.

• Alok Kothari  

As expert in deep learning model for natural language understanding, Alok conducted research in natural language processing, information retrieval machine learning at Apple.

• Rongjian Lan  

A infrastructure engineer for Play Store at Google as well as the co-chair of ABC Blockchain Foundation, with more than 500 engineers from Google, Facebook, LinkedIn as members.

• Minh Doan  

A former champion at USA Computing Olympiad Open, Minh was worked on Google’s Assistant, Play and Plus for 5 years prior to joining Harmony.

• Nick White  

Graduating from Stanford University with master’s degrees in electrical engineering, Nick served as the AI specialist for Hong Kong-based AI incubator Zeroth.AI, and coached over 20 teams from 5 continents across industries ranging from finance to agriculture to blockchain.

• Sahil Dewan  

At Harvard Business School, Sahil served as president of the blockchain and cryptocurrency club. After graduating he worked at Draper Dragon Fund and advised several blockchain projects.

• Leo Chen  

Leading a team of engineers at Amazon, Leo built the first generation of Kindle Fire and architected FireOS for all Amazon devices.

• Kunal Patel  

Kunal Patel drives the security design and architecture of Samsung Pay and various Samsung Knox projects.

• Eugene Kim  

Eugene Kim developed advanced networking protocols during his years at Amazon (AWS) and NTT. He holds two US patents on GPU-based acceleration of routing decisions in large-scale datacenter networks.

• Li Jiang  

Li founded a logistic startup during college. During his six years at GSV Capital, Li organized Pioneer Summit and Global Education Summit with 1,500 attendees including Bill Campbell and Barack Obama.

• Chao Ma  

Chao Ma worked as a machine learning scientist at Amazon. With Ph.D. in mathematics, Chao published 6 papers on non-linear analysis and partial differential equations in Advances in Mathematics and other top journals.

The Harmony Advisors

• Hakwan Lau  

Hakwan Lau is a full professor at University of California, Los Angeles. He specializes in neuroscience and machine learning. Hakwan studied at University of Oxford on the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship , served as associate professor at Columbia University, and has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers. Hakwan is also studying privacy-preserving modeling of health data on blockchain.

• Ka-yuet Liu  

Ka-yuet Liu is a tenured associate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. She specializes in medical data, network analysis and other system science methods. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Oxford and did her post-doctorate at Columbia University. Her research is funded by major grants from the National Institute of Health.

• Zi Wang  

Zi Wang worked on Google Chrome, Google X, Android and Nexus from 2006-2015. He was Google’s first global creative director for its hardware division and co-founded a Google research lab with a $20m budget.
Zi founded Quantum Bakery, a startup partnering with Google, Corning and Toyota to develop consumer products with ambient intelligence. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and a master’s degree in economics.

• Bruce Huang

Bruce Huang 黄海旻 was a lead engineer at Microsoft for 7 years, a director at Alibaba Cloud and at Credit Ease. Later, he became the CEO of Madailicai, a top peer lending company in China. He obtained his master's degree in computer science from the Simon Fraser University. Bruce is a certified snowboard instructor.

information
https://harmony.one/
https://twitter.com/harmonyprotocol
https://www.linkedin.com/company/harmony-protocol/
https://github.com/harmony-one
https://twitter.com/harmonyprotocol/status/1092543532513062912
https://medium.com/harmony-one

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