Technology that allows for frictionless financing. We are the technology company that developed and built the first open, permissionless, pure-proof-of-stake blockchain protocol. This protocol, which is free from forking, provides the security, scalability and decentralization necessary for today's economy. We are a team of award-winning professionals that enable traditional finance and decentralized financial companies to embrace frictionless finance. Advanced technology opens the door to sophisticated applications. DeFi solutions and DeApps with smart contract capabilities can scale to billions of people, tens or millions of transactions per day, and incur negligible transaction fees. Algorand Standard Assets, which are standard blockchain assets, have customizable options and can be found directly in Layer-1. Layer-1 provides secure transactions and transaction settlement for multiparty transactions. Facilitating enterprise adoption of decentralized finance