Reality

Reality is a distributed compute network assembled from ordinary devices, arguing that compute should come from users' own laptops, desktops and phones rather than data centres. After installing a client called Portal, a machine begins taking work and returning proofs, and the compute contributed doubles as the user's stake in the network. The network targets a class of software it calls rApps: programs that run on the devices of the people using them, so growth in users adds capacity instead of raising server bills.

Technically the execution layer provides a WebAssembly runtime, so any language that compiles to WASM can be deployed without being rewritten for a proof system. Proofs are ZK-STARKs, requiring no trusted setup and resting on hash functions rather than elliptic curves. Consensus uses a mechanism called 2MEME that substitutes useful work for pure hash competition, and a DAG structure with dynamic partitioning delivers millisecond finality and horizontal scaling. A companion language, Babel, describes deterministic state transitions and rejects invalid states at compile time. An esports anti-cheat application already runs on the network, with players' own machines cross-verifying each ruling.