Established by Li Jun in November 27th, 2017, Ontology is building the infrastructure to provide trusted access to Web3, allowing individuals and enterprises to rest assured that through regulatory compliant digital identity solutions, users and their privacy come first.

As a philosopher with a technical background, Li Jun named the project Ontology, 1) in philosophical terms, “Ontology is the branch of philosophy that studies concepts such as existence, being, becoming, and reality.” 2) In the Semantic Web, there is a very basic protocol called Ontology. Across the technology and philosophical field, Ontology refers to the basic infrastructure of things, which matches our vision of building a decentralized and credit-based infrastructure.

Ontology offers a variety of real-life use cases and allows businesses to build their own blockchain on top of the Ontology blockchain. This provides businesses and enterprises with more flexibility, enabling them to create customized blockchains to fit their specific needs.

The Ontology chain is designed with interoperability in mind. The network currently supports three virtual machines (Ontology EVM, NeoVM, WasmVM), helping to break down barriers to development and provide a familiar environment for those wanting to build with Ontology. This is the baseline infrastructure to enable easy, cross-chain building for Web3.

Of course, providing the infrastructure is only one of the solutions to the challenges provided by Web3. The user experience is also crucial, and this is another area where Ontology is uniquely placed to make a positive contribution. ONTO Wallet gives cross-chain access to the user, placing Web3 in the palm of their hands. Combine this with ONT ID, which allows users to keep control over the ID and data. Furthermore, with features like ONT Login, which simplifies the registration and password management procedures, Ontology has the tools available to provide the most seamless access to the next iteration of the Internet.

Ontology has a total coin supply of 1,000,000,000 ONT, of which nearly 80% are currently in circulation.

At its launch, 15% of ONT tokens were allocated to its core team, 10% to the NEO council, 28% to institutional partners, 10% to its technical community and 25% to the development of its ecosystem.

These tokens were subject to a strict screening process and various unlocking periods that ran over two years until the end of October 2020. Read more about its token distribution here.

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