Commonware: Engineering purpose-built blockchain infrastructure

Antier engineers Commonware-based blockchain infrastructure with modular primitives, rust and protocol-level expertise.

The primitives behind purpose-built blockchain infrastructure

Commonware is a Rust-based library of distributed-systems primitives designed for adversarial environments. Rather than providing a fixed blockchain stack, it gives developers composable building blocks for custom blockchain and distributed-system architectures.

These primitives let protocol teams define how core components such as consensus, networking, cryptography, storage, and runtime work together, with greater control over system architecture and performance.

The building blocks of purpose-built blockchain infrastructure

Commonware provides composable Rust primitives for engineering the core layers of custom blockchain and distributed systems.

Consensus

Orders opaque messages in Byzantine environments for custom consensus architectures.

P2P

Enables authenticated peer communication over encrypted connections for secure networking.

Cryptography

Provides primitives for key generation, signing, verification, and cryptographic operations.

Storage

Provides abstractions for persistent data access and authenticated state-management structures.

Runtime

Provides asynchronous task execution with configurable scheduling for protocol components.

Broadcast & coding

Supports wide-area data dissemination and recovery through encoded distributed fragments.

Parallel

Parallelizes fold operations with pluggable execution strategies for performance-sensitive workloads.

These primitives are designed to be composed rather than forcing every blockchain to follow the same architecture.

Build around your protocol requirements

Develop purpose-built blockchain infrastructure using Commonware primitives, Rust systems engineering, and protocol architecture expertise.

Shape the protocol around the workload

Commonware primitives can be composed into purpose-built blockchain infrastructure tailored to specific protocol requirements.

Application-specific chains

Build custom networks around defined execution, consensus, and state-management requirements.

Custom consensus architectures

Design consensus around network conditions, fault models, and communication requirements.

Performance-critical infrastructure

Optimise networking, concurrency, execution, and data processing for demanding workloads.

Cross-network infrastructure

Build protocol components enabling communication and verification across independent networks.

Commonware's repository includes examples such as Alto, a minimal blockchain built with the Commonware Library, and a bridge that sends succinct consensus certificates between two networks. These examples are illustrative and are not intended for direct production use.

Antier advantage

Antier combines blockchain protocol engineering, Rust development, and distributed-systems expertise to engineer custom infrastructure around Commonware primitives.

Protocol-level expertise

Design and engineer core components across consensus, networking, storage, and execution.

Rust engineering

Build performance-sensitive blockchain infrastructure using Rust and systems-level engineering practices.

Custom architecture

Compose infrastructure around protocol requirements, workload characteristics, and network constraints.

Performance optimisation

Benchmark critical paths and tune networking, storage, concurrency, and resource usage.

Ongoing engineering

Support infrastructure evolution through upgrades, optimisation, testing, and technical maintenance.

Frequently asked questions

What is Commonware?

Commonware is a Rust-based library of distributed-systems primitives designed for adversarial environments. Its current primitives cover areas including consensus, cryptography, peer-to-peer networking, storage, runtime, broadcast, coding, and parallel execution.

Is Commonware a blockchain framework?

What can be built with Commonware?

Which programming language does Commonware use?

Can Commonware primitives be customised?

Can Commonware be used to build a Layer 1 blockchain?

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