In 2021 Harmony strives to be a top blockchain for cross-chain assets, collectibles, identity, and governance. Our main themes are:
- Adoption — We are bringing utility to users through developers and partners. Hackathons with Gitcoin and workshops at Ethereum events will boost our reach.
- Interoperability — We are bridging with Bitcoin and Ethereum for broader assets. Our cross-shard and cross-chain transactions will enable new finance applications.
- Decentralization — We are growing our validator community and network features. External voting power and resharding will guarantee our long-term governance.
How to scale Ethereum applications in 2021? Harmony is a sharding protocol with a trustless Ethereum bridge. Our developers use Etherum tooling such as Solidity and Ether.js. Users use Metamask to store and they use our bridge to swap Harmony and Ethereum assets. We achieve 2-second finality for fast transactions and support 1000 delegating stakers for secure shards. A cross-chain Uniswap fork is already live on our mainnet. Similar to layer 2 protocols, Harmony is now fully interoperable with Ethereum ecosystem.
We openly commit and update for engineering milestones here (as harmony.one/launches).
Launch Dates & Weekly Updates
Yuriy Menkov
Ganesha Upadhyaya
Giv Parvaneh
Peter Abilla
Boris PolaniaGanesha Upadhyaya
Jacky Wang
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Harmony in 2021 will focus on adoption through developers and partners. We will continue to strengthen our network features, to lead industry in our cross-chain architecture, and to engage broad ecosystem to build with us. There will be explosive growth and new applications this year in blockchains — Harmony is ready to be leading a part of this global fintech revolution.
Harmony is a fast, cheap and secure settlement layer. Now we are bridging with Bitcoin and Ethereum to extend our use cases. Ethereum developers can easily scale their applications with Harmony to enjoy our 2-second finality and cheap fees. Our applications are fully EVM compatible and can already withdraw and deposit Ethereum assets via a bridge. We offer the same toolings and portals such as Web3.js and MetaMask. Our value proposition as a layer 1 protocol with a Ethereum bridge is making Harmony more attractive than layer 2 protocols.
Through marketing and evangelism, Harmony is ready to showcase our technical strengths as a top blockchain. We are hosting hackathons with Gitcoin and workshops at Ethereum events to attract developers. We are incubating to launch projects through grants and product development.
Harmony’s vision remains “Open Consensus for 10B People” — that is, there will be an open platform for our future generations to create in harmony. We are committed to the mission “To scale trust and to create a radically fair economy”. That means building a decentralized, scalable and secure blockchain to settle any transactions without trusted parties. Here, fairness in radical markets promises everyone opportunity for creating meaningful wealth.
Towards our mission, Harmony’s current strategy is “Cross-Chain Finance” and "Bridge to All Chains" as decentralized finance and interoperable protocols are the product-market fit in 2021. We are building trustless bridges to Bitcoin and Ethereum for broader access of users and assets with Harmony as a hub. An example of utility is a cross-chain exchange without custodial risks. Our current settlement layer and soon liquidity infrastructure will enable further financial innovations, leading to cross-exchange integrations and cross-border finance.
In our keynotes below, we summarize our roadmap as “Interoperability with On-Chain Bridges and Wallets" and "Hackathon & DAO on Building Bridges”. The post "$300M+ on Bounties, Grants & DAOs" gives a long-term plan on our ecosystem growth.
In short, here are our focus for coming 6 months:
- 1M users with $1000 assets: earn 20% fixed return with our authenticator wallets,
- 10k developers new to crypto: serve 10k users each with our cross-chain API,
- 100 DAOs on technical and ecosystem: govern 10k bounties of $300M.
