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7 min read · Aug 29, 2020
What is Constellation Network?
Constellation Network provides cybersecurity for big data. The Constellation Hypergraph Network provides a scalable and secure distributed network that validates data for enterprise and public sector clients. It is the first truly decentralized, infinitely scalable DAG protocol.
Hypergraph addresses digital threat vectors prone to big data initiatives, IoT, and data transportation. It provides an infrastructure for an open decentralized data marketplace and an enterprise grade software solution for data provenance and integrity. It’s secure, cost-effective, scalable, and easy to integrate.
The software infrastructure tool removes the financial and organizational cost of insecure data pipelines and bad data. It provides a secure and tamper-proof audit trail that simultaneously validates your data, allowing early visibility for data management teams into downstream issues — preventing bad logic across automated systems.
Partners
Constellation only recently migrated to their mainnet, but already managed to build a very impressive list of partners. Some of these partners are the United States Air Force (USAF), MOBI, Chainlink, Quant, Decisive Point, Dcode, Mousebelt/BEA, MongoDB and Splunk.
United States Air Force
Constellation’s technology will help securely unlock traditionally siloed and non-accessible data and data sources. This is commonly referred to as Multi-Domain Command and Control (MDC2) at the U.S. Air Force.
Multi-domain, cross-service stakeholders are disbursed, disconnected and complicated and the data created by each domain is either non-accessible or requires significant manpower to handle data forensics, planning, and collection. Constellation will create a leap in the USAF’s current capabilities with a focus on the agile interoperability of both legacy and future data types. It is a scalable and secure approach to Big Data processing while enabling the merging of legacy system data with existing cloud infrastructure data. As such, Constellation provides decentralized security not only to Air Force data pipelines, with encryption, but also creates audit trails and a live overview of the status of any data source.
The USAF was very pleased with the results of this partnership and wrote a letter of support.
USAF Letter of Support
“The unique Constellation Blockchain for Big Data technology has significant potential to help Air Force cyber security and the 618 Air Operations Center (AOC) with commercial partners mission transaction interactions verifications by mitigating security risks of attack points like servers, cloud storage and centrally hosted access control systems that are either exposed to hacking and/or spoofing activities.
The foreseeable result would successfully thwart spoofing attacks from intercepting and replacing an existing data stream with a data stream from a hostile agent or adds fraudulent information to the existing data stream.”
www.prnewswire.com
MOBI
MOBI’s mission is to explore Blockchain and related technologies, promote standards, and accelerate adoption for the benefit of the industry, consumers, and communities. (https://dlt.mobi/)
Chainlink
In an important integration for the advancement of blockchain technology, Chainlink, with its Oracle Network, will be leveraging Big Data Solutions from Constellation to bring scalable real-world and streaming data to the Blockchain.
This intergration will see Constellation to provide data and blockchain services, validate streaming data for the Chainlink ecosystem by becoming a Chainlink node operator.
Through Constellation’s “Blockchain for Big Data” approach, the company is able to assist in providing data infrastructure tools for developers to enable interoperability between legacy and cloud data systems.
More info on the Constellation and Chainlink partnership can be found here: https://constellationnetwork.io/3041-2/
Quant
“An Internet for Automation with IoT and Edge Devices” outlines how Constellation and Quant will provide robust security for IoT and interoperability of data between systems and devices for use cases like connected cities. Smart (or Connected) Cities can use IoT to develop and connect digital ecosystems that have many benefits, ranging from improved energy distribution and more efficient waste collection to connected cars and better air quality.
In recent years, billions of dollars have been invested into the development of the Connected City, but progress has been held back by the lack of a sufficiently powerful, secure, flexible and interoperable technology able to interconnect the many blockchain technologies currently used. This new partnership will change this.
More info on the Constellation and Quant partnership can be found here: https://www.quant.network/blog/quant-network-and-constellation-network-partnership-represents-a-major-step-forward-for-smart-cities/
Decisive Point
Decisive Point’s mission is to effectively combat the frictions that impede rapid adoption of new tech and services in the US Government.
Dcode
Constellation is part of Dcode’s AI cohort. (https://dcode.co/spring-2020-AI-cohort/)
Dcode connects the tech industry and government to drive commercial innovation in the federal market.
‘Government organizations trust Dcode to train them on innovative business and acquisition practices, the emerging tech landscape, and how to scale solutions and advance their mission. Dcode also offers federal agencies premier tech scouting and customized accelerators to solve critical challenges through commercial technology.’ https://dcode.co/government/
150 companies have applied to become part of the AI cohort of Dcode and only 12 companies got in. Constellation is the only Blockchain company of those 12 companies.
Mousebelt
Mousebelt has setup the Blockchain Education Alliance (BEA). ‘The BEA will cultivate a network of 20 leaders in both industry and academia to jointly develop educational initiatives that accelerate mass adoption of blockchain technology. MouseBelt will organize meetups, and more to support collaboration. Members can also engage with researchers to develop new use cases that will address specific challenges within their industry.’
Some of the other members of BEA are mastercard, Binance X, NEO, Kucoin and Ripple’s Xpring.
More info on the Blockchain Education Alliance can be found here: https://cointelegraph.com/news/mastercard-binance-x-and-ripples-xpring-join-the-blockchain-education-alliance/amp?__twitter_impression=true
MongoDB
Constellation has partnered with MongoDB to work on building a security layer within MongoDB itself. The partnership is a multi-phase breakdown. Currently Constellation is in the first phase, this means that they are an Independent Software Vendor. This allows Constellation to present MongoDB to clients (such as the USAF) as a suite of data management tools that work with Constellations technology. The second phase of this partnership will be to certify the technology with MongoDB enterprise.
Currently Constellation is working with a few of Mongo’s account executives to make them understand how our Hypergraph and immutable ledger work ALONGSIDE MongoDB with a shared customer (United States Air Force).
Technical integration paper: https://constellationnetwork.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/MongoDB-Constellation-Network-MongoDB-Technical-Integration-Overview. pdf (remove the dash between Overview. and pfd).
Splunk
Splunk Inc. is an American public multinational corporation based in San Francisco, that produces software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data via a Web-style interface.
Constellation Network has a Technological Alliance with Splunk (https://partners.splunk.com/locator/search?q=Constellation+network), Splunk is a tech giant currently worth $35b+ and is listed on NASDAQ. The team did not mention too much about this partnership but I have tried to connect the dots with DRC and I believe we did a fairly good job, read about it here: https://medium.com/@Cryptopleb4_32442/splunk-x-constellation-network-5964bebc3c3e
Find out what a Technological Alliance with splunk means here https://www.splunk.com/en_us/partners/become-a-partner/technology-partners-program.html
Token utility
Technically speaking $DAG is the financial state channel of the Constellation Network. It allows the seamless exchange and interaction between the various state channels and nodes that make up the network. $DAG binds the components of the network together and enables them to relate to each other.
In short, $DAG is representative of tokenised bandwidth, allowing for transactions above the rate limit and the monetization of data streams between businesses.
DAG plays a couple of roles inside Constellations mainnet:
- Nodes earn validator rewards in the form of DAG.
- DAG is used to secure throughput on the network.
- DAG will be used to purchase validated data sets on the network (programmatic data exchange).
DAG allows for the tokenization of data packages which then opens the road to the network becoming a network for exchanging the data commodities of the future.
Tokenomics: https://medium.com/@mateo_gold/token-economics-and-the-role-of-dag-in-the-constellation-network-74b73f4c3d5b
Team
CEO — Benjamin J. Jorgensen
Ben is a great CEO and has shown this in the past. Ben was the founding CEO of Klick Push, an ad technology company that made it easy for F500 brands to implement dynamic content and music into digital advertising initiatives. This captured the attention of a $50 Billion industry by being awarded Best Emerging Ad Tech Company in 2014. https://www.linkedin.com/in/bjorgensen/
Chief Revenue officer (CRO) — Benjamin Diggles
As the CRO, Diggles is responsible for all government and enterprise engagements, consortia programs and driving the global partnerships strategy to promote the commercial adoption of Constellations enterprise grade distributed ledger technology. Mr. Diggles has worked for various companies, among these are Oracle and Universal Pictures & Disney Pictures.https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrdiggles
Chief Operations Officer (COO) of Constellation — Mathias Goldmann
The COO supervises the designing and implementation of business operations, he establishes policies that promote company culture and vision and oversees operations of the company and the work of executives. Mathias has an impressive track record just like the rest of the team. He has worked for the ECB and the PwC, just to name a few. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathias-goldmann-711a85110/
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) — Wyatt Meldman-Floch
Wyatt (and his team of engineers) developed the Constellation Protocol from scratch. https://medium.com/@wyatt_52942/out-of-the-cave-721890cd78eb
In the past Wyatt was a platform/lead back-end/data engineer for various companies. He also used to be an intern for NASA and contributed to GUI’s of light curve data from the Kepler spacecraft and implementation of Shannon entropy for non-human communication. https://www.linkedin.com/in/wlmeldmanfloch
Extra information
Some useful links on Constellation.
Nik Patels coin report: https://www.altcointradershandbook.com/coin-report-constellation/
AMA with Satoshi club: https://medium.com/@stardustcollective/constellation-ama-hosted-by-satoshi-club-249324a78dd5
AMA with Kucoin: https://www.kucoin.com/news/kucoin-ama-series-constellation-dag-full-transcript
AMA with TehMoonwalkeR: https://medium.com/@tehMoonwalker/transcript-from-the-live-ama-with-team-constellation-in-tehmoonwalkers-telegram-group-96af13b1dd09
Interview with Ray Rehito Hatoyama, the ex-CEO of Hello Kitty Japan, an advisor to Constellation: https://youtu.be/KGVpdNSLp54
2019 highlights of Constellation: https://youtu.be/RcnwcSvw89o
Information website: www.constellationinfo.com
Website/social media
Website: https://constellationnetwork.io
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChMBV4al3p_iO4bnfzcIzVQ / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe7ZIi9bXHONM3ovA05akbw
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Conste11ation/#
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Conste11ation / https://twitter.com/stardustco11ect
Medium: https://medium.com/@stardustcollective
Telegram: https://t.me/constellationcommunity
