Elrond
3 min readJul 11, 2019
What is Elrond?
Elrond is a high-througput public blockchain focused on providing security, efficiency, scalability, and interoperability by employing two key elements. Adaptive State Sharding and a new (SPOS) Secure Proof of Stake consensus mechanism. (explain further on their whitepaper) https://elrond.com/files/Elrond_Whitepaper_EN.pdf
Elrond focuses on combining 3 key innovations
- Adaptive State Sharding — transaction, data & network sharding +shard merges and shard splits in real time
- Secure Proof of Stake — stake for sybill prevention + random reshuffling of the consensus group + fast BFT like consensus
- Formally verified VM & Smart Contracts on sharded architecture with balance nodes on shards
Other Features
- Security with 99% malicious actors using fisherman challenge
- Consensus in two communication rounds with modified BLS multi-signatures
- Low system requirements
- Testnet live, exceeding 12k+ TPS with just 5 shards
- Secure randomness beacon with BLS signing
Token Sale Details Held on Binance
- Token Name: Elrond (ERD)
- Hard Cap: 3,250,000 USD
- Total Token Supply: 20,000,000,000 ERD
- Total Tokens Allocated to Binance Launchpad: 5,000,000,000 ERD (25% of Total Token Supply)
- Public Sale Token Price: 1 ERD = 0.00065 USD (price in BNB will be determined prior to the lottery draw date)
- Token Sale Format: Lottery
- Max Number of Winning Lottery Tickets: 10,833
- Allocation Per Winning Ticket: 300 USD (461,538.46 ERD)
- Supported Sessions: BNB only
- Elrond (ERD) will be issued on Binance Chain as a BEP2 asset.
Team background
Elrond is built by a team experienced entreprenuers, engineers and researchers with significant technical experience at Microsoft, Google, Intel, NTT. a PhD in CS, and blockchain backgrounds, including being previously part of the NEM core team.