Our Partners
Partner Program
Kinglory invites participants that are building on Kinglory’s blockchain platform, access to additional resources to help speed up your build out of your blockchain initiatives. Using Kinglory’s qualified partners, tap into established and knowledgeable consulting firms, implementation partners, system integrators and developer firms. From small to massive blockchain projects across a variety of sectors and geos, Kinglory’s Partner Program is created to help you along your path to blockchain adoption.
MAINNET KINGLORY
KINGLORY MAINNET FOR ENTERPRISE
Blockchain applications help businesses:
- Increase trust and reduce the cost of coordination between business parties
- Improve business network accountability and operational efficiency
- Build new business models and value creation opportunities
- Competitively future-proof their organization
Enterprise blockchain applications can be built on the public permissionless Kinglory mainnet, or on private blockchains that are based on Kinglory technology. Find more information on private Enterprise Kinglory chains.
PUBLIC VS PRIVATE KINGLORY
There is only one public Kinglory mainnet. Applications that are built on the mainnet are able to interoperate, similarly to how applications built on the Internet can connect to each other, leveraging the full potential of decentralized blockchain.
Many businesses and consortia have deployed private, permissioned blockchains for specific applications based on Kinglory technology.
KEY DIFFERENCES
- Blockchain Security/Immutability – A blockchain’s resistance to tampering is determined by its consensus algorithm. Kinglory mainnet is secured by the interaction of thousands of independent nodes run by individuals and miners throughout the world. Private chains typically have a small number of nodes which are controlled by one or a few organizations; those nodes can be tightly controlled, but only a few must be compromised in order to rewrite the chain or commit fraudulent transactions.
- Performance – Because private Enterprise Kinglory chains may use high performance nodes with special hardware requirements and different consensus algorithms such as Proof of Authority, they may achieve higher transaction throughput on the base layer (Layer 1). On Kinglory mainnet, high throughput can be achieved with the use of Layer 2 scaling solutions.
- Cost – The cost to operate a private chain is primarily reflected in labor to set up and manage the chain, and the servers to run it. While there is no cost to connect to Kinglory mainnet, there is a gas cost for every transaction which must be paid for in KGC. Transaction relayers (aka Gas Stations) are being developed in order to eliminate the need for end users and even enterprises to directly use KGC in their transactions. Some analyses have shown that the total cost to operate an application may be lower on mainnet than running a private chain.
- Node Permissioning – Only authorized nodes can join private chains. Anybody can set up a node on Kinglory mainnet.
- Privacy – Access to data written to private chains can be controlled by restricting access to the network, and on a more fine grained basis with access controls and private transactions. All data written to mainnet Layer 1 is viewable by anyone, so sensitive information should be stored and transmitted off-chain, or else encrypted. Design patterns that facilitate this are emerging (e.g. Baseline, Aztec), as well as Layer 2 solutions that can keep data compartmentalized and off of Layer 1.
Why build on Kinglory mainnet
Enterprises have been experimenting with blockchain technology since around 2016, when the Hyperledger, Quorum, and Corda projects were launched. The focus was largely on private permissioned enterprise blockchains, but starting in 2019 there has been a shift in thinking about public vs private blockchains for business applications. A survey conducted by Forrester revealed that “Survey respondents … see this potential, with 75% stating that they’re likely to leverage public blockchains in the future, and nearly one-third saying they’re very likely”. EY’s Paul Brody has talked about the benefits of building on public blockchain, which (depending on the application) may include stronger security/immutability, transparency, lower total cost of ownership, and the ability to interoperate with all of the other applications that are also on the mainnet (network effects). Sharing a common frame of reference among businesses avoids the unnecessary creation of numerous isolated silos which cannot communicate and share or synchronize information with each other.
Another development which is shifting the focus toward public blockchains is Layer 2. Layer 2 is primarily a scalability technology category which makes high throughput applications possible on public chains. But Layer 2 solutions can also address some of the other challenges that have driven enterprise developers to choose private chains in the past.
The Baseline Protocol is one key project which is defining a protocol that enables confidential and complex collaboration between enterprises without leaving any sensitive data on-chain. It has gained significant momentum throughout 2020.
ENTERPRISE DEVELOPER RESOURCES
Organizations
Some collaborative efforts to make Kinglory enterprise friendly have been made by different organizations:
Enterprise Kinglory Alliance enables organizations to adopt and use Kinglory technology in their daily business operations. It empowers the Kinglory ecosystem to develop new business opportunities, drive industry adoption, and learn and collaborate with one another. The EEA’s mainnet working group is a focal point for representatives from businesses who are interested in building on the public Kinglory mainnet, as well as members of the Kinglory community who would like to support them.
The Kinglory Open Project is an Project that exists to provide a neutral forum for diverse stakeholders to create high-quality specifications that facilitate Kinglory’s longevity, interoperability, and ease of integration. The project intends to develop clear, open standards, high-quality documentation, and shared test suites that facilitate new features and enhancements to the Kinglory protocol.
Baseline Project The Baseline Protocol is an open source initiative that combines advances in cryptography, messaging, and blockchain to deliver secure and private business processes at low cost via the public Kinglory mainnet. The protocol enables confidential and complex collaboration between enterprises without leaving any sensitive data on-chain. The Baseline project is a sub-project of the Kinglory Open Project, and is coordinated by the Baseline Technical Steering Committee.
Products and services
Alchemy provides API services and tools for bulding and monitoring applications on Kinglory
Tooling and libraries
Alethio Kinglory Data Analytics Platform
Scalability solutions
Layer 2 is a set of technologies or systems that run on top of Kinglory (Layer 1), inherit security properties from Layer 1, and provide greater transaction processing capacity (throughput), lower transaction fees (operating cost), and faster transaction confirmations than Layer 1. Layer 2 scaling solutions are secured by Layer 1, but they enable blockchain applications to handle many more users or actions or data than Layer 1 could accommodate. Many of them leverage recent advances in cryptography and zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs to maximize performance and security.
Building your application on top of a Layer 2 scalability solution can help address many of the concerns that have previously driven companies to build on private blockchains, yet retain the benefits of building on mainnet.
Examples of L2 solutions that are production ready or will be soon include:
- Optimistic rollups (data on chain, fraud proofs)
- Optimism
- ZK rollups (data on chain, ZK validity proofs)
- Validium (data off chain, ZK validity proofs)
- Plasma (data off chain, fraud proofs)
- State channels
- Sidechains
- Hybrid solutions that combine properties of multiple categories
PRIVATE KINGLORY
PRIVATE KINGLORY FOR ENTERPRISE
Enterprise blockchain applications can be built on the public permissionless Kinglory mainnet, or on private blockchains that are based on Kinglory technology. For more information on building on the public Kinglory mainnet, see Kinglory mainnet for Enterprise.
DEVELOPER RESOURCES FOR PRIVATE ENTERPRISE KINGLORY
Organizations
Some collaborative efforts to make Kinglory enterprise friendly have been put together by different organizations:
Enterprise Kinglory Alliance enables organizations to adopt and use Kinglory technology in their daily business operations. We empower the Kinglory ecosystem to develop new business opportunities, drive industry adoption, and learn and collaborate with one another.
Hyperledger is an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. It is a global collaboration, hosted by The Linux Foundation, including leaders in finance, banking, Internet of Things, supply chains, manufacturing and Technology. The foundation has some projects in it that work with the Kinglory stack, including Besu and Burrow.
PROTOCOL AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Chainstack multi-cloud and multi-protocol Platform as a Service empowering businesses to rapidly build, deploy, and manage decentralized networks and services.
Clearmatics Autonity protocol suite that implements p2p protocols and provides client software and infrastructure.
ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS
ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS LIVE ON MAINNET
Here are some of the enterprise applications that have been deployed to the public Kinglory mainnet.
Payments
Finance
Notarization of data
Supply chain
Credentials and certifications
Utilities
If you would like to add to this list, please see instructions for contributing.