Automata Network aims to be recognized as the go-to privacy service for DeFi and Web3 with its proposition of privacy middleware. It aims to fill a gap in the market by providing privacy-focused solutions that integrate with existing blockchain infrastructure in an intuitive, seamless manner. Its applications are built for Web3 purposes and include anonymous voting, miner extractable value (MEV) minimization, and do-not-track indexing. These allow users to transact safely, regain control of their identity, and offer better building blocks to developers with open-source code and APIs.

Its anonymous voting service is called Witness and offers low-cost, off-chain voting, on-chain execution based on the results and different levels of privacy, ranging from private to public, based on the protocol’s requirements. The solution supports Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, and other Substrate-based EVM-compatible chains. Each of these functions can be used as standalone or together, e.g., if a project wants to use Witness as a signaling tool without on-chain execution.

Conveyor is Automata’s MEV minimization solution that is chain-agnostic and works seamlessly with DEXes like Uniswap. It ingests and outputs transactions in a determined order, thereby creating a front-running-free zone that removes the chaos of transaction reordering. Features include gasless trading, anti-front running, privacy on ordering, and integration with other DEXes.

ATA is a BEP-20 and ERC-20 token with a total supply of 1 billion and a current circulating supply of 172 million. As the native utility token of the Automata Network, it has several use cases:

• Governance: ATA token holders can create and vote on proposals, platform features and network parameters.
• Mining rewards: Compute and storage miners earn ATA tokens by running applications and executing transactions for users on the network
• Protocol fees: Users pay miners for storage and computation tasks
• Geode allocation: Users can bond ATA tokens to participate in Geode auctions

ATA is BEP-20 and ERC-20 on the Binance Smart Chain.

ERC-20 is a token standard most new tokens follow when publishing on the Ethereum blockchain. Ethereum is secured by a proof-of-work consensus mechanism that requires miners to mine new Ether. A set of decentralized nodes validates transactions and secures the Ethereum blockchain.

BSC is secured through the proof-of-stake consensus mechanism. 21 validators are elected every 24 hours to validate transactions and maintain blockchain security. These validators have to stake a certain amount of BNB coins with Binance to be eligible to do so.

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