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![harmony](harmony2.png)

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## About

Harmony is a fast and open blockchain for decentralized applications.
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- Its protocol has achieved secure and random state sharding, being the first sharded Proof of Stake on production.
- Harmony's Mainnet supports thousands of nodes in multiple shards, producing blocks in a few seconds with instant finality.
- The network's staking mechanism reduces centralization while supporting stake delegation, reward compounding and double-sign slashing.
- Harmony aims to build an open network of nodes operated and governed by a large community.
- Harmony has designed a novel Proof-of-Stake (PoS) mechanism for network security and economics - Effective Proof-of-Stake (EPoS) which reduces centralization and distributes rewards fairly to thousands of validators

## Harmony and ThreeFold

Harmony.one and ThreeFold joined forces to provide a performant, decentralized and customizable solution that enables anyone (with the right knowledge) to easily and cost-effectively deploy and run a Harmony validator node (or many) and access the growing staking ecosystem of Harmony's Blockchain.
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With the ThreeFold P2P Cloud and its developer tools - 3Bot admin panel, the ThreeFold SDK - Harmony empowers its expanding community with 1-click validator node deployments, directly from the web or from a local machine
This gives its node operators control over their containerized validator nodes, and a more efficient way to spin them up on a decentralized IT infrastructure.
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By Leveraging ThreeFold's decentralized storage, compute, and networking, as well as its compatibility with Docker, Kubernetes, S3 storage, containerized databases, and other open-source software, Harmony's developer community unlocks an additional alternative to centralized cloud providers.
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This brings the ability to build highly-scalable cloud-native and Blockchain-based applications and deploy them close to where their users are.

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### Roadmap

- Q4 2020
  - 1-click Harmony validator node deployment
-Q1 2021 
   - Harmony’s Smart-contract  and API integration with the ThreeFold grid and 3BOT  Build autonomous dApps on TomoChain, powered by ThreeFold’s P2P cloud
Q2 2021
   - Additional 1-click storage and compute solutions for the Harmony community -->