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GoChain is a scalable, Ethereum based smart contract blockchain that is fast, secure and green. It enables DApp and smart contract developers to lift and shift from Ethereum to GoChain for 100x increased performance.

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What is GoChain?

A Better Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

GoChain is a scalable, high performance, low cost, and decentralized cryptocurrency and blockchain that supports smart contracts and distributed applications.

  • A public cryptocurrency
  • Build decentralized applications and rock solid smart contracts
  • Fully compatible with existing Ethereum wallets, smart contracts and other tools
  • Fast transactions and contract execution
  • Next generation decentralized app platform goes beyond Ethereum smart contracts - coming Q4 2018

Goals of GoChain

GoChain's mission is to provide a scalable, low cost, energy efficient platform for digital currency and decentralized applications.

10x More Decentralized

Open decentralization did not work as intended as more than 70% of mining is in China and the majority of that is run by just a few companies. GoChain forces nodes to be in different countries, run by unrelated people/companies.
Goal: 10x more decentralized

100x Faster

GoChain will support very high transaction volumes with fast verifications. Ethereum can only process 13 transactions per second, GoChain will initially target 1300 transactions per second.
Goal: 100x more transactions per second

1000x Less Energy

The energy used to run the Bitcoin network could power more than 3.5 million US households, 1 million to run Ethereum. We think that's completely unnacceptable and unsustainable. GoChain will use a small fraction of the energy used to run other cryptocurrencies.
Goal: 1000x less energy consumption

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Development Timeline

Dec 2017

Proof of Concept (COMPLETE)

Implemented proof of concept, proved validity of ideas.
February 2018

Private Sale

Private Sale. Build out testnet.
March 2018

Testnet live and available for review

Closed period for partners and media to try it and verify our claims.
May 2018

Public Sale

Public token sale.
May 2018

Public Network Launch

Mainnet live and open to the public with nodes around the world, supporting 1300 tx/sec.
Q4 2018

Next Generation Smart Contracts

Easy, accessible, upgradeable smart contracts.
Q1 2019

Apache 2.0 Licensed Rewrite

To increase Enterprise adoption of GoChain.
Q2 2019

13,000 Tx / Second

10x increase in performance and volume over initial launch.

Our Team

The core team is a group of software engineers, tech founders and business leaders who have spent their careers building high scale, distributed cloud systems, including high performance messaging, data storage and compute services for cloud infrastructure. This experience is a natural fit for an inherently distributed system like a public blockchain. The founders have built and exited successful startups with funding from top-tier Silicon Valley VCs.

Jason Dekker

CEO
Jason is a serial entrepreneur, former hedge fund manager managing in excess of $250 million, angel investor, board member and advisor with an exit to a public company. He has extensive C-level experience in finance, biotech, tech, and the food & beverage industries.

Travis Reeder

Chief Software Architect
Travis has over 20 years of experience developing high-throughput, high scale applications and cloud services. He founded successful technology companies and has raised tens of millions in funding from some of the top VC firms in Silicon Valley. Having solved scaling problems and delivering scalable services for his entire career, he is now applying that knowledge and experience to blockchain. Travis holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.

Ben Johnson

Sr. Software Engineer
Ben Johnson is an open source software developer specializing in writing databases and distributed systems. He created BoltDB, a very popular in-process, transactional, key/value store that is used by many projects including CoreOS's etcd & Hashicorp's Consul.

Guilherme Rezende

Sr. Software Engineer
Guilherme has extensive software development experience in both cloud technology and open source. He is also a blockchain developer and speaker. Guilherme holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.

Jordan Krage

Sr. Software Engineer
Jordan Krage is a software engineer with experience in big data and distributed systems. He is one of the developers of the Go (golang) dependency management tool dep. Jordan holds a Master's degree in Computer Science.

Roman Kononov

Sr. Software Engineer
Roman has 12 years of experience developing software and leading engineering teams. He also has extensive knowledge and experience with cyber security, helping companies protect themselves from threats. Roman holds a Master's degree in Computer Science.

Adam Norris

Director of Marketing and Community Relations
Adam has over 10 years of experience in customer service and support. For the last two years he worked as a technology consultant implementing sophisticated customer experience and market research software for major Fortune 500 companies. He also has extensive knowledge and expertise in blockchain, community management, academic research and visual design. As an early-adopter that has been in the space since 2011, he has managed the communities of several ICO and cryptomining projects. Adam holds a Bachelors in Psychology with an emphasis in statistical models and research methods.
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Brooke Hansen

Social Media Director
Creative visionary, blogger, and social media guru. Brooke has had a passion for creating since a young age. She has explored almost all outlets of creative expression, through painting, drawing, writing, photography, and modeling. She pursued her creative passions through her education and continued on to receive a degree in Journalism at the University of Nevada Reno.

Advisors

Benn Godenzi

Marketing Advisor at WanChain

Chad Arimura

VP Cloud at Oracle

Morgan Mackles

VP Sales at X.ai

Etiënne VantKruys

EU Biz Dev at WanChain

Dr. Majid Almansouri

CEO at ChainVisory

Shihab Ali

CSO at HODL Partners

Matthew Skinner

Founder at EtherSportz

Jameson Stafford

VP Corporate Development at Catalytic, Inc.

Alex Barrett

Founder and CEO at Likemoji

Partners / Investors

Amazix
Renowned & Co
Carnaby Capital
HODL Partners
Current Capital
Blockox Fund
Crypto Jack
Hades Capital
ChainVisory
Token Research Group
EtherSportz

Frequently Asked Questions

Why Ethereum?

We believe Ethereum is one of the better blockchain protocols today, due to supporting smart contracts. Smart contracts will have a huge impact on so many industries. And while we love what the Ethereum org has done, they are progressing on their path, and we would like to take it in a different direction. We believe we can improve on some core things (speed, energy, etc) and also we plan to improve on the smart contract system to make it easier to use and less chance for error.

How can I become an authoritative node?

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