Swirlds – The Platform for Distributed Applications
http://www.swirlds.com/

Swirlds is a software platform designed to build fully-distributed applications that harness the power of the cloud without servers. Now you can develop applications with fairness in decision making, speed, trust and reliability, at a fraction of the cost of traditional server-based platforms. Features include: a) Secure – Maintain private and secure data, without having to trust the privacy and integrity of any central server; b) Reliable – Deliver applications that are always available; as reliable as the internet; c) Fair – Ensure the actual order of transactions is the consensus order, and all transactions are included; d) Trusted – Enforce rules, achieve fairness and ensure safety in a highly trusted system; e) Fast – Speed time-to-consensus with more transactions per second; and f) Cost-effective – Build high-throughput, scalable applications without incurring server costs and maintenance. The Swirlds platform enables developers to create both permissioned and permissionless distributed applications with high transaction throughput, low consensus latency, and fairness in transaction order, without the burdensome costs of Proof-of-Work. Some of the application categories include: 1) Markets; 2) Gaming; 3) Online Collarboration; 4) Identity; 5) Cryptocurrency; and 6) Public Ledger. This will be added to Financial Sources Subject Tracer™. This will be added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™. This will be added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™. This will be added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™. This will be added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™.