Dear Apache Members, Hope you are safe and well.
Over the past 6 years, we have been developing a distributed blockchain framework, called ResilientDB <https://resilientdb.com/>, which has been open-sourced <https://github.com/resilientdb/resilientdb> since 2019. ResilientDB is a lightweight and highly performant framework (written in C++) that has been extensively evaluated and refined resulting in over 20 publications and 2 books. It allows for easy integration with various Byzantine Fault-Tolerant (BFT) and Crash Fault-Tolerant (CFT) consensus protocols. ResilientDB has been a key educational tool, thus far, 1 postdoc, 3 Ph.D., and 13 MSc students have graduated while working on it. Furthermore, it has been used in the classroom for the past 5 years with several hundred students utilizing it for their course projects. The current core team of ResilientDB consists of 1 Postdoc, 2 PhD, 8 MSc, and 6 BSc. In addition to academic success, it has been utilized by our industry partners (e.g., Radix Ltd <https://www.radixdlt.com/> and Mysten Labs <https://mystenlabs.com/>) for analysis and as an industrial-strength framework to implement their consensus protocols. The broader team of active contributors currently included UCB, UCI, UPenn, and McMaster U. Our ResilientDB platform has now reached a stable point in its product life-cycle, and we believe it is now an excellent candidate to be considered for the Apache Incubation program to further expand its reach and development by building a larger community and ecosystem around it. Furthermore, considering the thriving field of blockchain / distributed ledger, Apache does not have any core blockchain software in its portfolio. We are looking for champions and mentors for our project. Your kind support is greatly appreciated. We look forward to growing and expanding our product as part of the Apache community. Here is the live / latest draft of the proposal. https://docs.google.com/document/d/12WPvs1A7tqH8VjkMrgXTGQ_z4fiL6f6oi32e7bxSjXc/edit?usp=sharing Currently, we have *Anh Dinh*, Apache SINGA’s PMC, as our Apache mentor (cc'ed). --- Best Regards, Mohammad Sadoghi, PhD Associate Professor Exploratory Systems Lab (ExpoLab) Department of Computer Science University of California, Davis ExpoLab: https://expolab.org/ ResilientDB: https://resilientdb.com/ Phone: 914-319-7937
