We are happy to hear from Dfinity, which is compatible with and has close ties to Ethereum. We think it's important to see what is happening elsewhere in the ecosystem; this is an important talk that we recommend to you. Here's a summary from Dominic Williams:



DFINITY (http://dfinity.network/)is an Ethereum-compatible scalable decentralized cloud being created with the aim of hosting open versions of mass market services such as Uber, Twitter, Gmail and even Web search, and supporting high volume business applications such as financial exchanges. Several innovations are introduced. The project segments the market by introducing dynamic governance that can mitigate hacks, prevent platform misuse and manage seamless protocol upgrades via a "Blockchain Nervous System", a distributed intelligence upon which the "Code is Law" is made contingent. The project also draws on research into network protocols dating back to the 2014 Pebble project. Novel applications of cryptography generate unstoppable, unmanipulable and unpredictable streams of random values then leveraged by network protocols to provide enormous gains in performance and "scale-out" the capacity of the tamperproof virtual machine as new miners join.