Automata Network is a Middleware protocol that focuses on privacy and fairness. It is a high-performance compute protocol that empowers Web 3.0 applications and businesses with privacy-first, high assurance, and friction-less transactions. Its mission is to provide the functionalities and infrastructure necessary to realize the vision of a seamless Web 3.0 experience. It tackles the lack of transparency in data ownership, censorship, and intrusion into personal privacy.
Automata’s products include:
- Privacy-first cross-chain service plane: Automata offers privacy services for various blockchains that let users control their data.
- Shielded and unbiased compute plane: the degree of privacy of computation in Automata can be stronger than in centralized web services like AWS.
- Elastic and scalable control plane: it is operated by a group of staking nodes and governs interactions between participants of the protocol.
- Ledger plane: Automata provides interfaces for multiple blockchains to exchange data and cooperate on the agreed set of data in an atomic and privacy-preserving manner.
Automata was founded in 2019 by a team of blockchain developers and researchers, including previous founding members of Zilliqa. Co-founder Zheng Leong Chua holds a PhD in computer science from the National University of Singapore, while the other co-founder Deli Gong previously worked at Zilliqa as infrastructure lead.
