Introduction

Blockchain technology today has some sustainability risks including cryptographic techniques being used becoming obsolete and the price of native tokens declining (thus miners get incentivized to leave). There are also other technological problems and problems of technical governance, involving political situations surrounding development communities and miners.

BBc-1 (Beyond Blockchain One) is a kind of “middleware” to give long term solutions to these problems, and at the same time to provide support for currently ongoing application development. It is designed to implement requirements specified in “BBc Trust” (our charter), and is being developed as a set of open protocols and open source software that implement them, obtainable and usable for free. We are in the process of forming a global open community, a non-profit consortium of corporations and individuals (beyond-blockchain.org) who will keep working on this project together.