A blockchain for decentralized apps beyond blockchains
We are building a clean-slate L1 to expand the Web3 vision of a decentralized, secure, and private internet beyond blockchains.
Learn more about our vision — a vibrant ecosystem of full-stack decentralized apps freed from the current on-chain smart contract model, yet still ultimately secured by blockchain consensus.
Our betanet is out, so you can start running nodes and developing protocols.
Also check out the pre-alpha of Earendil, a Mel-secured anonymous communication network and first of its kind to resist ISP-level censorship.
And join our growing community:
Powering post-blockchain decentralization.
Today, the "decentralized web" is limited to blockchain smart contracts. Real apps running on your device — even Web3 frontends — still suffer under Web2's centralization and insecurity.
Mel enables a new paradigm: off-chain composability. Here, "Web3 protocol" and "dApp" aren't fancy names for smart contracts loosely taped onto a Web2 frontend.
Instead, they're next-generation network protocols and apps, none of which run on a blockchain, yet interacting with minimal on-chain code to achieve censorship resistance, radical decentralization, and user-aligned incentives.
Our off-chain composable visionUniversal, composable, and robustly neutral .
Conventional blockchains serve intricate smart contract ecosystems. This means complex protocols, messy governance, and unwieldy clients — bad news for composability between on-chain and off-chain.
Mel turns this model upside-down. Everything is designed for easy access not by smart contracts, but by regular non-blockchain programs. Trustless light clients easily power everything from naming systems to data storage networks.
And we get an elegant, minimal blockchain that distills blockchains' incentive-based trust: an immutable, credibly neutral, "code-is-law" engine that liberates us from contentious human governance.
How composability synergizes with neutralityThe first zero-trust, low-volatility currency.
The world we are building needs a new kind of money. Neither volatile cryptocurrencies nor oracle-backed fiat stablecoins point to our monetary future.
MEL is the first ever cryptocurrency that's both stable and trustless. Protocol-internal mechanisms dampen its value against computation time without any oracles.
A truly decentralized unit of account changes everything from payments to incentive design.
How we finally get "sound money"A new frontier of unstoppable protocols
We are building an ecosystem of basic off-chain decentralized protocols with security and resilience backed by the Mel betanet.
The most important piece of the stack — Earendil, the world's first decentralized anonymous communication and payment network designed to resist ISP-level censorship and metadata collection.
Earendil will power a new generation of autonomous applications and peer-to-peer protocols, providing them with unstoppable data transport and programmable off-chain micropayments.
Learn more about Earendil