On July 15, Constellation Network opened up its Hypergraph blockchain, developed in collaboration with the U.S. military, to application developers at a global hackathon event co-hosted by tech giants IBM and Panasonic.
The hackathon marks the debut of Constellation’s “metagraph” application layer, which allows third-party developers to build Web3 applications (or new Layer 1 blockchains) on top of Hypergraph’s existing network.
Hypergraph is a so-called “Layer 0” protocol designed to validate and store data from interoperable applications and networks (called metagraphs) in a ledger. According to the announcement, the metagraph works with any data type, interfaces directly with external data sources, and allows for mainstream programming languages such as Java.
“Constellation’s Hypergraph is a blockchain of blockchains,” said Ben Jorgensen, CEO of Constellation Network, in a statement. “The best way to deliver Web3 and blockchain technology to all of us is through interoperability and collaboration between chains and communities.”
In 2019, Constellation became one of the first Web3 developers to sign a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to explore the application of blockchain technology for national security. Constellation is also working with the U.S. Space Force and the Treasury Department, according to a statement.
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According to its website, Constellation is investigating use cases such as facilitating secure encrypted communications and aggregating data from disparate legacy systems as part of a DoD contract. It is also working with the U.S. Air Force to prototype technology designed to protect military data streams from adversarial cyberattacks.
According to an Air Force memo cited on Constellation’s website, Constellation’s blockchain technology “will successfully thwart spoofing attacks that intercept existing data streams and replace them with those of a hostile agent.”
Constellation deployed its own token, DAG, in 2018. According to its website, the DAG token is designed to secure the Hypergraph network through a staking mechanism and benefit from the proliferation of new metagraph applications.
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