Zilliqa
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Zilliqa pioneered sharding technology in 2017 using a peer-to-peer approach, solving one of the most complex blockchain challenges.

Our experienced engineering team are constantly improving our core infrastructure and providing support for dApp developers.

Why research matters to Zilliqa

Zilliqa Research is a world leader in blockchain-sharding infrastructure and is renowned for its safe-by-design smart contract language.

Since blockchain technology happens at breakneck speed, there's a tendency to build fast, break things and introduce fixes along the way.

At Zilliqa, we don't believe that's the right approach.

We believe blockchain applications should be subject to peer-to- peer academic scrutiny to help ensure protocols are safe for the applications built on them.

Our research and development
Distributed Systems (DS)
Programming Languages (PL)
Scalability (S)
Verification (V)

Research library

Our revolutionary smart contract sharding proposal

Zilliqa will show how you can safely shard smart contracts to scale, which has been impossible to achieve until now.

Practical Smart Contract Sharding with Ownership and Commutativity Analysis
Authors: George Pîrlea, Amrit Kumar, Ilya Sergey
PL
S
Compiling a Higher-Order Smart Contract Language to LLVM
Authors: Vaivaswatha Nagaraj, Jacob Johannsen, Anton Trunov, George Pîrlea, Amrit Kumar, Ilya Sergey
PL
Safer Smart Contract Programming with Scilla
Authors: Ilya Sergey, Vaivaswatha Nagaraj, Jacob Johannsen, Amrit Kumar, Anton Trunov, Ken Chan Guan Hao
OOPSLA 2019 Distinguished Artifact Award.
PL
Temporal Properties of Smart Contracts
Authors: llya Sergey, Amrit Kumar, Aquinas Hobor
PL
V
Scilla: a Smart Contract Intermediate-Level Language
Authors: llya Sergey, Amrit Kumar, Aquinas Hobor
PL
V
The Zilliqa Technical Whitepaper
Authors: The Zilliqa Team
DS
S
A Secure Sharding Protocol For Open Blockchains
Authors: Loi Luu, Viswesh Narayanan, Chaodong Zheng, Kunal Baweja, Seth Gilbert, Prateek Saxena
DS
V

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Working with Zilliqa

If you're a researcher with experience in blockchain technology, distributed systems, and applied cryptography, we'd love to hear from you at careers@zilliqa.com