*Updated May 1, 2019

On a company channel in 2015, ConsenSys’ founder Joseph Lubin captured the shape of ConsenSys as an organization:

“Mesh of quasi independent, loosely coupled orgs. Everyone owns a piece of everyone else’s project. Everyone is a stakeholder and rooting or working to help those around them succeed. The Mesh keeps growing to encompass much of humanity.”

With employees now located in New York, Dublin, London, Paris, Sydney, and beyond, the ConsenSys Mesh has since grown into a global formation of developers, entrepreneurs, enterprise experts, lawyers, educators, creatives, and more who are working together to lay the foundations for a decentralized future, anchored on the Ethereum blockchain. We’re approaching the challenge from nearly every angle conceivable, and we’re using Ethereum to solve real-world problems for organizations of all sizes, from the global enterprise to the local community.

Here’s an overview of some of the platforms, applications, services, core components, developer tools, infrastructural projects, and initiatives that make up the ConsenSys Mesh, and some insight as to the goals of each. This is how we’re getting to Web3.

//Platforms and Applications

ConsenSys platforms and applications range from re-imaginations of foundational industries like supply chain (Viant), energy (Grid+), journalism (Civil), and law (OpenLaw), to cornerstones of the digital asset economy (Airswap), and groundbreaking dApps like Ujo, Gitcoin, Bounties.Network, and Gnosis that provide real utility, create value, and are leading the way towards global, decentralized economies.

//Services

ConsenSys provides consultation and enable partnerships in fields that run the gamut from tech to enterprise, government, education, community, and media. Some examples: The Brooklyn Project provides a platform for establishing best practices for consumer protection in the token economy, while Token Foundry spins up exceptionally engineered token launches from around the world. Diligence protects and improves the Ethereum ecosystem by conducting smart contract audits and publishing security best practices. ConsenSys’ series of Ethereal Summit events has emerged as one of the premier meeting-places for the blockchain community, while ConsenSys Academy is training the next generation of blockchain developers and technologists. ConsenSys Social Impact strives towards innovations that create a better world.

//Core Components, Developer Tools, Infrastructure

At the heart of ConsenSys is a host of infrastructural projects that underpin much of the Ethereum network. MetaMask, an Ethereum web browser extension, has been downloaded over one million times, while Infura provides node infrastructure for the Ethereum network and directs billions of traffic requests a day.

The Truffle suite of developer tools has reached over 1.7 million lifetime downloads, and uPort is poised to establish self-sovereign identity as an essential feature of the blockchain era. PegaSys, our protocol engineering spoke, recently released Pantheon 1.1, an Apache 2.0 licensed Ethereum client written in Java that offers an open-source private transaction management solution. Kaleido, the blockchain business cloud, is the first blockchain SaaS platform for enterprise, radically simplifying the entire journey from PoC to pilot to production; it offers innovative features such as multi-protocol and consensus options, Ethereum mainnet tethering, and more. Alethio, a comprehensive suite of blockchain exploration and forecasting products, allows developers, dApp leads, and Ethereum enthusiasts to analyze and act on data previously unavailable through block explorers.