Elrond

TL;DR

A sharded smart contract system. The project started in 2018. Network setup: 3,200 nodes, with 4 shards.

Useful Data

Parameter	Data
Round	6 seconds
Consensus mechanism	PoS
Token standard	ESDT (FT, SFT, NFT)
Native Token	eGLD = 10^9
Blockchain Programming Language	Go
Block Explorers	https://explorer.elrond.com/
Wallets	https://docs.elrond.com/wallet/web-wallet/
Smart Contract Deployment	https://docs.elrond.com/developers/tutorials/counter/
Signing Transactions	https://docs.elrond.com/developers/signing-transactions/tools-for-signing/

Stack

Layer	Description
1 The Arwen WASM VM	https://docs.elrond.com/technology/the-arwen-wasm-vm/
2 Smart Contracts	C, C++, C#, Rust, Go, TypeScript and many other compiled to WASM
3 Nodes	https://docs.elrond.com/sdk-and-tools/rest-api/nodes/
4 Client APIs	https://docs.elrond.com/sdk-and-tools/rest-api/addresses/
5 Observer Squad	https://docs.elrond.com/integrators/observing-squad/