Below is Harmony’s vision for Web3. We started the project 4 years ago with a mission of scaling trust and creating a radically fair economy. Looking forward the next 4 years, Harmony is scaling Web3 infrastructure of DeFi and NFT. Our strategy is bringing the best results of Zero-Knowledge Proofs to production and decentralizing governance through thousands of DAOs.

We are a Day ONE startup. Blockchains are becoming the foundation of the global economy, yet their adoption is at only 1%. That means that pioneers and developers are shaping the future with 10X impact. Harmony is a community-driven project, a network with billion dollars of assets, and a team wearing crazy ambitions on their sleeves.

As Messari and Vitalik both emphasize, Web3 is growing in all areas but particularly NFT infrastructure, DAO tooling, and inter-protocol bridges.

Harmony in 2026 will serve as a unifying Web3 platform. We see Metaverse as the market-product fit of marrying culture and technology for billions of users. We take fluid employment and token-aligned incentives in autonomous organizations as the basic of the creator economy. We know trustless and secure bridges to all chains as the core of open platforms.

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) and other cryptography primitives are fundamental innovations for years to come. Harmony has created zkDAO and zkU courses, bringing not only the best research to production but also the brightest minds into the field.

We are focusing on products with 100X benefits, magical uses, or universal constructs. Harmony has identified the following 6 products as the most ready in coming years; they already have usable prototypes on mainnet.

The first is compressing computations and states to succinct representations – namely, low-fee zkEVM rollups, trustless Flyclient bridges, and stateless Non-Interactive-PoPoW clients.

The second is protecting privacy across multiple chains and Web2-to-Web3 actions. For example, cross-chain coin mixers like Tornado – which is a top use case with 35K users and $6M revenue; Ethereum Foundation's Semaphore Project now enables anonymous authentication and voting.

Lastly, fairness is now guaranteed on blockchain. Verifiable Delay Functions (VDF) will be a key primitive for randomness in games and lotteries; anti-collusion for quadratic funding will be critical for anonymous and open grants.

Just a few months ago in Lisbon, we announced our $300M ecosystem fund for 100 DAOs. Today 25 DAOs are already funded with Gnosis Safe multi-signatures and Snapshot votings.

Harmony has committed millions of funds to these initiatives. More importantly, we have pushed their formations, governance, and milestones in the public – all as open development across chains. By 2026 all of our treasury, development and coordination will be diversified into thousands of DAOs – across and joint with multiple chains.

Currently, our Research DAO already has multiple top professors as governors and giving travel grants to students; our Wallet DAO spawned three mobile clients and pushed through many security audits.

Our bottom-up approach is the "Basic Income" DAO, paying creatives and builders at $75 per hour – globally for at-will contributions. Our top-down approach is the "Organic Liquidity" DAO, market-making across tens of exchanges by thousands of strategy bots – with aligned and public incentives.

Harmony’s consensus offers 2-second finality and uniform scaling via state sharding. Our staking has on-chain delegation, view change and slashing. Harmony’s bridges and wallets are trustless and secured by smart contracts. Our cross-chain architecture universally connects heterogeneous chains such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cosmos and any EVM-compatible chains.

Like the incentives of Curve’s locked CRV and Olympus’ owned OHM, we are offering 40% discount for locking over 4 years, at 30-day volume-weighted average price (VWAP). Harmony Foundation currently holds more than $500M in tokens for ecosystem growth and $300M for protocol development. In 2021 our token price $ONE jumped 60.4X. As of 01/01/2022, our market cap is $3.10B, or $3.56B at fully dilated valuation.