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Placeholder Proof System
07 Jan 2023
Author: Alisa Cherniaeva, Ilia Shirobokov, Mikhail Komarov

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Database Management System providing a fault-tolerant replication mechanism for newly created databases and handling different kinds of fault-tolerant replication protocols for existing ones. Puts replication protocol to the database level, introduces swappable query languages and sub-clustering.

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Solana


Solana claims to provide a performance-oriented cluster with a Berkley Packet Filter-based virtualization mechanism. =nil; Foundation's Crypto3 team has facilitated Solana cluster with the in-EVM "Light Client" state verification mechanism to pave the way to the trustless zero-knowledge proof-based bridge.

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Mina


Mina is building a gateway between the real world and crypto — and the infrastructure for the secure, democratic future we all deserve. By design, the entire Mina database is possible to be packed into a Pickles SNARK proof, which size is about 22kb – literally the size of a couple of tweets. So participants can quickly sync and verify the whole state. =nil; Foundation's Crypto3 team has facilitated Mina Protocol with the in-EVM Pickles SNARK proof verification mechanism paving the way to the bridge with Ethereum.

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Filecoin Prover


Filecoin is a descentralized storage network, incentivized with crypto-token and based ontop of IPFS storage protocol. =nil; Foundation's internal =nil; Crypto3 team has designed and developed a special version of Filecoin prover, which is the up to 4x times more performant and less hardware-demanding Filecoin prover alternative increasing mining profitability.

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Crusty3


Modern cryptography suite implemented in Rust. Uses the same architecture type traits as Crypto3 along with the same backend implementation in YASM. Includes permutative, public key, zero-knowledge cryptograhy along with verifiable delay functions, threshold schemes and cryptographic accumulators.

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Chia Network


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Chia Network claims to be providing the first alternative to traditional Nakamoto consensus. With participating and winning VDF and ProofOfSpace contests with its' =nil; Crypto3 team, =nil; Foundation resulted in providing the most performant plottng implementation, helping to develop the protocol.

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Iosg Ventures


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Crypto3


Modern cryptography suite implemented in C++. Statically typed, C++14, stack-only. Includes permutative, public key, zero-knowledge cryptograhy along with verifiable delay functions, threshold schemes and cryptographic accumulators.

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