Introducing Sign BlockChain : Next Generation Distribution Blockchain Infrastructure

Today, we’re excited to introduce a Next generation distribution Blockchain Infrastructure for third generation of internet services and applications

There are many efforts to address the scalability challenges of blockchains. The Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Zcash and [insert your favorite blockchain here] communities all have their own ideas on how to scale the transactional capacity of decentralized peer-to-peer networks. Some proposals require protocol changes and miner approval. Other proposals require significant compromises on centralization or security to be made. We are proposing an alternative that allows existing blockchains to scale without protocol changes or compromises on centralization or security.

Twenty years ago when the Internet was still in its infancy, Akamai came along to create the first Content Distribution Network (CDN). This technology breakthrough helped data propagate more quickly across the Internet, making the Internet more usable in the process.

Sign Blockchain is Evolution of distribution Blockchain infrastructure for third generation of internet services and applications

Inspired from preceding Bitcoin Relay Networks like Falcon (which was designed by our team out of Cornell’s IC3 initiative) and Fibre, Sign Blockchain propagates blocks more quickly across existing peer-to-peer networks, which increases throughput on-chain. We’ve improved upon the early Bitcoin Relay Networks by creating a Blockchain Distribution Network (BDN) that is provably neutral (nodes or blocks cannot be censored) and has a sustainable business model that enables a powerful public utility from which all blockchains can benefit.

We’ve designed Sign Blockchainwith the following principles in mind:

• General purpose implementation. Your favorite blockchain can implement Sign Blockchain and significantly increase on-chain throughput by doing so.
• Scalability, Decentralization, and Security. Sign Blockchain is designed to allow existing blockchains to maintain their decentralization and security properties while significantly increasing scalability on-chain.
• Grassroots adoption. Sign Blockchain can be implemented without any protocol changes or approval from developers and miners. It can be implemented by individual node operators on a purely bottom-up, grassroots basis. Nodes that adopt Sign Blockchain will start seeing benefits immediately and the more nodes implement Sign Blockchain , the faster blocks will propagate for the entire network.

We aspire to create a general purpose scalability solution that has a sustainable business model and a broad base of stakeholders from around the world. This can only happen after we prove that our ideas work. Our current focus is demonstrating Sign Blockchain’s claims with various partners. We hope to have more to report on that front in the coming months.

If you are interested in contributing to our vision of making blockchains more scalable on-chain, we’d love to hear from you!

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We’re always looking for good people!

If you’re equally excited to solve the scalability bottleneck for all blockchains, consider joining our team! We are always looking for passionate partners to help us on this important journey. Check out our available positions to work with us in our Chicago offices.

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