In The CopyrightBank Story, I recounted how I learnt about NEM at a full-day briefing in Melbourne last year. Right after that event, I approached then Vice President, Jeff McDonald, to ask him whether he could help me find developers for CopyrightBank. His reply blew me away.

“You can program in any language to build on NEM. Hence, any developer will be able to build your platform for you.”

This was eventually proven true. The host of that event was Asta Solutions and they eventually became the developers of CopyrightBank. It took the development team at Asta just 2 weeks to build a functional proof of concept. This is virtually unheard of in the blockchain world. Some projects still have nothing after a year of development!

NEM is a smart asset blockchain that was designed and coded from the ground up for scale and speed. Its architecture is designed for both simplicity and flexibility of development. The developers found it fairly easy to build on NEM because of the API architecture that simplifies the creation of client apps.

The features of the NEM blockchain are accessed through simple RESTful JSON calls to an API Gateway Server. This is why any programming language can be used without trying to find a new way to implement existing business logic or having to work within a novel and unfamiliar environment.

This setup allows for different solution architectures:

NEM is known as the sleeping giant. We believe that once more people discover how easy it is to build a solution with NEM, there would not only be increased adoption of NEM but an increase in the success of blockchain projects.