2021 was a year of rapid growth year for us. Our tech stack made giant leaps through regular updates, and our workforce doubled in size, adding important talent not only to our tech team, but also across sales, marketing, HR, and more.

From a tech perspective, we are working tirelessly to fully decentralize our software and network. From here on, everything we do will create a foundation for a truly decentralized Layer Zero solution for Web3 and beyond.  

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Tech Highlights From 2021

  • Syntropy Team: doubled in size.
  • Syntropy Nodes: 800 nodes are now running on more than 140 providers.
  • Syntropy Connections: over 2.1 million connections have been made.
  • Syntropy Agent: has been downloaded more than 3 million times.
  • Syntropy Agent Commits: our team committed more than 400 commits.
  • Syntropy Stack: we moved from closed beta to a full-fledged SaaS product.
  • Syntropy Launches: we launched Syntropy Stack, VPN, and Windows App.
  • Syntropy Stack Connections: the Controller can now handle up to 15,000 concurrent connections (full mesh).
  • Syntropy Stack Releases: we released 13 new updates, introducing new features and improvements.
  • Blockchain: 556 nodes are now running in our AmberChain, with a 7 sec average block time.
  • Staking: Nominator & Validator Smart Contracts, locked 200+ million NOIA tokens in 1,500 actively staking wallets, expected to reach 250 million tokens.

Team Expansion

The scarcest asset is extraordinary people. We now have a fully dedicated R&D team solely focused on decentralizing the Syntropy Stack platform architecture. The end result is that our tech can scale seamlessly across other chains and Web3 products.

We're also very pleased to announce the hiring of Abdelrahman Omran (previously at Google) who will be accelerating our rev relations efforts. We have many new community and developer initiatives in the pipeline, so stay tuned.

The rest of our tech team remains fully staffed, although we are always looking for more ways to grow.

Integrations

Syntropy will be compatible with everything. To prove that, we shipped more than a dozen tech integrations last year, including Minecraft, CS:GO, Terraria, Elrond, Polkadot, Chainlink, Ethereum, Ethereum 2.0, Bitcoin, GTA Mod FiveM, Team Fortress 2, ARK: Survival Evolved, Filecoin.

Many of these integrations originated from our Syntropy Builders program, harnessing the power of our global developer community.

Blockchain

Our blockchain is healthy, with large numbers of tokens locked-up via our Nominator and Validator staking programs. I am very excited to see our full decentralization efforts come to fruition in 2022 and beyond.

Community Programs

Last year, several community programs were launched to facilitate continued adoption, including Syntropy Writers, Syntropy Testers, and Syntropy Builders. We already have strong relationships with developers working across both small startups and S&P 500 enterprises. I believe our community efforts will contribute to additional growth this year.

Syntropy Stack

Production-ready view of Syntropy Stack

Syntropy Stack is the core of our tech stack. We continue to make it more user-friendly, stable, and powerful, moving from beta to a completely open platform in just a few months.

Future Plans

The foundation is now ready, with our team preparing the next set of tools and features to support developer and enterprise adoption in 2022.

I believe Syntropy Stack will become a key piece of the world's Web3 future. Syntropy will easily enable programmable internet services for all connected devices and network — powered by the $NOIA token. We have never had more confidence that our technology will have a profound impact on the future of Web3. Persistence is a virtue.