Shardus

Shardus

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The foundation for global-scale decentralized applications.

Shardus is building distributed ledger software to remedy the problems of traditional blockchains -- scalability, decentralization and efficiency. The technology being developed will use compute and state sharding to accommodate billions of daily active users, allowing for global-scale decentralized applications. The first application built with this technology will be a payment network and coin called Liberdus.
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General
Website: Visit
White paper: Read
Bounty: Bounty
ICO Time: 01 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2019
Country: USA
Token info
Ticker: ULT
Platform: Ethereum
Token Type: ERC20
Financial
ICO Price: 1 ULT = 0.1 USD
Accepting: ETH
Q4 2011
βœ“ Research Started<br /> <br /> Simulation and study of consensus algorithms started.<br />
Q2 2016
βœ“ Consensus and Ledger Design Started<br /> <br /> Design of consensus algorithm and distributed ledger started.<br />
Q2 2017
βœ“ Consensus Algorithm Defined<br /> <br /> Specifications for the consensus algorithm completed.<br />
Q3 2017
βœ“ Ledger Specs Defined<br /> <br /> Specifications for the distributed ledger completed.<br />
Q4 2017
βœ“ Consensus Algorithm Testing<br /> <br /> Small-scale testing of the consensus algorithm was carried out.<br />
Q1 2018
βœ“ Legal Counsel<br /> <br /> Legal opinion on the project funding model was obtained.<br /> <br /> <br /> βœ“ Launch Preparation<br /> <br /> The website and whitepaper were developed.<br />
Q2 2018
βœ“ Project Launch<br /> <br /> The project was launched as Unblocked Ledger Coin. No ICO needed.<br /> <br /> <br /> βœ“ Team Expanded<br /> <br /> The core team has been expanded with more developers.<br />
Q3 2018
βœ“ Rebranding<br /> <br /> The Project was rebranded from Unblocked Ledger Coin to Shardus (technology) and Liberdus (payment network and coin built on Shardus).<br /> <br /> <br /> βœ“ Consensus Algorithm Development<br /> <br /> The Shardus Consensus Algorithm for a single shard was developed.<br /> <br /> <br /> βœ“ Consensus Algorithm Testing<br /> <br /> Large-scale testing of the Shardus Consensus Algorithm was carried out on global network.<br /> <br /> <br /> βœ“ Shardus Wallet Development<br /> <br /> The Shardus mobile app and web wallet were developed.<br /> <br /> <br /> βœ“ Social Media Content<br /> <br /> Videos, blog posts and other content explaining the Shardus project were developed.<br /> <br /> <br /> βœ“ Bounty Managment Software Developed<br /> <br /> Software was developed to manage a social media bounty program.<br /> <br /> <br /> βœ“ Quarterly Status Event<br /> <br /> The team gave a presentation of the project and demonstration of current milestone.<br />
Q4 2018
Shardus Enterprise Server<br /> <br /> The first version of the Shardus server software will be developed using only one shard and simple transactions.<br /> <br /> <br /> Shardus Wallet Update<br /> <br /> The Shardus mobile and web wallet will be updated to work with the Enterprise server.<br /> <br /> <br /> Social Media Bounty Program<br /> <br /> Awareness of the project is increased through a social media bounty program.<br /> <br /> <br /> Quarterly Status Event<br /> <br /> The team will give a presentation of the project and demonstration of current milestone.<br />
Q1 2019
Shardus Global Server<br /> <br /> The Shardus software will be developed to allow parallel processing of transactions and storage of data across multiple shards.<br />
Q2 2019
Shardus Universal Server<br /> <br /> The Shardus software will be developed to allow complex transaction across multiple shards.<br />
Q3 2019
Liberdus Server Development<br /> <br /> The Liberdus payment network application will be developed by forking the Shardus software and modifying the application layer.<br />
Q4 2019
Liberdus Test Network<br /> <br /> The public Liberdus test network will be released for users to download the binaries and join the network.<br />
Q1 2020
Liberdus Main Network<br /> <br /> The Liberdus main network will be released for users to download the binaries and join the network.
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