# Chainbound

> Chainbound is a research and development lab focusing on decentralized
> technologies. We advance peer-to-peer networking, scalable decentralized
> systems, and applied cryptography.

## About

Chainbound is a Web3 infrastructure R&D lab. Our work spans networking,
distributed systems, and applied cryptography: building and advising on the
infrastructure that decentralized networks run on.

## Products

- [Umia](https://umia.finance): The protocol for funding and governing
  token-native ventures. Currently incubated by Chainbound.

## Previously

Before Umia, Chainbound built infrastructure at the core of Ethereum. See
https://chainbound.io/previously for the full picture.

- Fiber: A global, low-latency network for propagating Ethereum blocks and
  transactions, giving validators and searchers the fastest access to the
  network's data.
- Echo: A single endpoint for submitting bundles and transactions to the whole
  Ethereum builder market.
- [Bolt](https://github.com/chainbound/bolt): Sub-second pre-confirmations on
  Ethereum through proposer commitments, a primitive that let validators make
  credible commitments about the blocks they produce.

## Open source

- [msg-rs](https://github.com/chainbound/msg-rs): A messaging library for
  distributed systems, built in Rust.
- [prometric](https://github.com/chainbound/prometric): Attribute macros for
  embedded Prometheus metrics in Rust.
- [taiko-mk1](https://github.com/chainbound/taiko-mk1): A sequencer sidecar for
  the Taiko rollup.
- [valtrack](https://github.com/chainbound/valtrack): An Ethereum validator
  crawler.
- [cryo-mcp](https://github.com/chainbound/cryo-mcp): Query EVM blockchains in
  natural language.
- [async-rust-benchmarks](https://github.com/chainbound/async-rust-benchmarks):
  Benchmarks exploring the performance of async Rust.

## Research

- [Engineering blog](https://engineering.chainbound.io): Research and
  development notes from the Chainbound team.

## Links

- Website: https://chainbound.io
- Careers: https://chainbound.io/careers
- GitHub: https://github.com/chainbound
- X (Twitter): https://x.com/chainbound_
- Contact: contact@chainbound.io