ICON aims to connect blockchains and communities. The organization’s core goal is to enable easy development of solutions that are interoperable across multiple blockchains, to deliver as broad a suite of solutions as possible and to reach as large a potential market as possible. In achieving this, ICON aims to bring the benefits of blockchain technology to the masses.
Paraphrasing ICON’s 1-liner, ICON is a public blockchain protocol that is committed to building a hyperconnected future with BTP, their chain-agnostic interoperability solution.
And, according to their website, “ICON is an open-source layer 1 delegated proof-of-stake (DPoS) blockchain and smart contract platform focused on connecting unique blockchains and their respective communities. ICON’s Blockchain Transmission Protocol (BTP) is a trustless and chain-agnostic interoperability solution that supports generic smart contract calls between connected blockchains. ICON offers a unique high-performance smart contract execution environment powered by the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that is ideal for developing minimal-latency cross-chain dApps. The ICON blockchain is governed by validators elected through the network’s ICX staking and delegation mechanism.”
Additional resources:
- ICON’s official website: https://icon.community/
- The Iconist: https://theicon.ist/
- ICON blog: https://icon.community/blog/
- Discord: https://discord.com/invite/7a75Hf3cFm
- Buy ICX: https://icon.community/learn/icx/#where-can-i-buy-icx
