IC3 is an initiative of faculty members at Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, Cornell Tech, EPFL, ETH Zurich, UC Berkeley, University College London, UIUC and the Technion. It's based at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech in NYC.
IC3 uniquely meets the blockchain community's urgent need for world-class expertise in computer science that spans cryptography, distributed systems, programming languages, game theory, and system security techniques. IC3 applies this depth of expertise to deliver value on the two nested levels of science and code:
- Blockchain Science: Bringing the science of blockchains to the forefront of blockchain technology development. Currently most cryptocurrencies and contracts rely on heuristic designs without a formal basis upon which strong assurance of security properties might be achieved. Establishing a rigorous scientific foundation for efficient, scalable, high assurance blockchain-based solutions is a critical need that IC3 is highly qualified to satisfy.
- Blockchain Code: Delivering blockchain innovation in code, underpinned by solid scientific foundations. We collaborate on the development and verification of multiple Open Source blockchain tools and solutions to meet the expectations of the financial industry for breakthroughs in cost, security, privacy and performance. Our blockchain test bed Miniature World simulates real world scenarios at scale; such as experiments at 15% the size of the operational Bitcoin system, where we compared Bitcoin with Bitcoin–NG, a new high performance blockchain protocol pioneered by IC3.
Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compiance, and pirvacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, stablecoins, and more. Since inventing decentralized oracle networks, Chainlink has enabled tens of trillions in transaction value and now secures the vast majority of DeFi.
Many of the world's largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink's standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, ANZ, and top protocols such as Aave, GMX, Lido, and many others. Chainlink leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve.
Learn more about Chainlink by visiting chain.link or reading the developer documentation at docs.chain.link
The Chainlink Labs Channel Partner strategy is intended to outline a joint approach between Chainlink Labs and select accelerators, launchpads, incubators, devshops, and software tools to promote the user adoption and growth of the web3 ecosystem. Chainlink Labs and the channel partners will collaborate to accelerate and nurture the web3 ecosystem in key areas including gameFi, NFTs, developers, and startups.
Chainlink Labs is the leading provider of secure and reliable open-source blockchain oracle solutions, enhancing smart contracts by connecting them to a wide range of off-chain data sources and computations, such as asset prices, web APIs, IoT devices, payment systems, and more. We are dedicated to the development and integration of Chainlink as the standard decentralized oracle framework used by smart contracts across any blockchain.
