zilliqa

Zilliqa is a permissionless public blockchain designed for high throughput, with the ability to confirm thousands of transactions per second. Zilliqa was founded by Prateek Saxena, Amrit Kumar, and Max Kantelia. While the official development of the platform started in June 2017 and the testnet went live in March 2018, Zilliqa is a smart contract platform that enables innovators to build a new digital economy. It is the first public blockchain to implement the concept of sharding. It offers a more scalable and secure blockchain infrastructure. And is a permissionless blockchain sketched to offer high throughput with the eligibility to process and complete thousands of transactions per second. It attempts to resolve the glitches associated with blockchain scalability and transaction speed by employing sharding as a second-layer scaling solution. The Zilliqa platform has its own native token, ZIL, which is used to strengthen, secure, and enable faster transactions. while also allowing the execution of smart contracts on the platform.