Cypherium is a New York based third-generation blockchain startup and smart contract platform, that focuses on enterprise blockchain. In 2017,
Sky Guo (
CEO) founded Cypherium with the aim of repairing existing shortcomings in blockchain technology, which prevent widespread adoption by organizations and industries[1].
Cypherium Token (CPH) serves to allocate network resources to participants.Cypherium's Gas mechanism resemble to Ethereum's and charge a smart contracting fee, and each CPH represents one share of the total network resources[15][16].
Cypherium
Virtual Machine (CVM) for
smart contracts runs on
Java (
Dalvik architecture), the most widely-utilized and reliable programming language in the world[17].by using this type of lightweight architecture Cypherium virtual machine is enable to operate on mobile devices too[18].
CypherSwap a cross-chain compatible
Decentralized Exchange (DEX) based on the Cypherium public chain.CypherSwap is expected to launch by the end of 2020 [19][20].
Cypherium goals
To enable enterprise use cases for all industries with smart contract platform[21].
To create a secure vault to combat the increasing threats on data privacy[21].
To connect isolated data islands around the world to a trusted database[21].
To create an open network to enfranchise for everyone[21].
To create an instant ledger to process transactions for billions of users in real-time[21].
History
Cypherium was founded in 2017[22] by former software developers at
Google,
Microsoft,
Amazon and
Tencent, whose expertise encompasses cryptography, virtualization, network security and artificial intelligence[23][24]. The company raised 32$ million in capital via token (CPH) sale constitutes three rounds[25]:
The first round was conducted in early 2018 (Institutional participants, notably Pantera Capital and Blockfolio, and the Founding Community) - 24$ million[25].
The second round was the Final Pre-sale that was opened in September 2020 [26][27][28] - 4$ Million[25].
The final round was the Public sale in Q3 - 3.5$ Million[25].
Cypherium Mainnet Has Launched on October 31, 2020[29].
Major Events
In January 2018 Cypherium and IC3 declared on their partnership and their goal to develop new blockchain scaling solutions and to advance the integration of blockchain technology as a service[30][31][26].
In January 2019 Cypherium begun their Public test net and explore. on that test net launch Cypherium also presented the public release of the Cypherium Virtual Machine (CVM)[32][33].
In May 2019 Cypherium,
IBM and
Amazon declared on their collaboration[34][35] and in June 2019 the partnership with
The Federal Reserve (the central bank of the U.S., that being in charge of the country’s monetary policy), has declared[36].
In August 2019,
Google has announced on their partnership with Cypherium[37][38][39][40].
In February 2020
Randstad has begun testing a combination of the Cypherium blockchain and Google Cloud in their platform [41][42][43][44].
In April 2020 Cypherium joined
Microsoft for Startups program to explore new use cases and becoming a part of the company’s blockchain as a service[14]. In may 2020
OMFIF and Cypherium declared on their partnership [45].
Cypherium Listed in August 2020 as a preferred startup at
Société Générale’s Startup-Flow, the company will be invited to submit a
proof of concept to introduce its innovative technologies to facilitate global
CBDC interoperability[45][50][51][52][53].