Syscoin SYS / Syscoin

Who Are the Founders of Syscoin?

Syscoin was created in 2014 by Sebastian Schepis — one of the co-founders of the company that created what became the Oracle Project Manager, an enterprise management system. Following the success of Project Manager, Sebastian has gone on to consult for large corporations like Lockheed-Martin, Bank of America, General Dynamics, Verizon Wireless, and several others

Today, Syscoin as an open source project is led by the non-profit Syscoin Foundation with board members including Jagdeep Sidhu (Foundation President and Lead developer) and Michiel Näring, Syscoin Foundation Vice President.

SYS Labs, an enterprise, leads the development of flagship apps and systems built on Syscoin, including Rollux (OPStack L2), SuperDapp, Pegasys DAO (DEX), and Luxy (NFT marketplace).

What Makes Syscoin Unique?

The most unique feature of Syscoin is its ability to combine the strongest elements of Bitcoin and Ethereum on a single platform. Syscoin's layer 1 consensus is based on Bitcoin’s SHA-256 PoW model and allows merged mining with Bitcoin. This means that miners can simultaneously mine both BTC and SYS at no extra cost. Comparing Syscoin's hashrate to Bitcoin's it can be seen that generally over 50% of Bitcoin's hashrate also mines Syscoin and that it is supported by several larger Bitcoin pools. Syscoin also provides decentralized finality on top of Nakamoto consensus which effectively eliminates the risks of 51% attacks normally associated with PoW while also retaining proven Nakamoto consensus from beneath. Moreover, Syscoin is modular layer 1 that supports optimistic rollups and ZK rollups, and provides them a low-cost data availability service that is censorship resistant called PoDA. The first layer 2 built on Syscoin is a fork of Optimism called Rollux, an EVM-equivalent optimistic rollup that went live on June 28, 2023, built by SYS Labs. The Rollux ecosystem is Syscoin's primary target for ecosystem growth as it provides scalability with a fast and low-cost user experience.

In sum, Syscoin's technology today effectively provides what Ethereum plans to provide in the future with its modular roadmap, including data availability, while retaining Bitcoin's Proof-of-Work.

The network utilizes incentivized full nodes (masternodes) to serve multi-quorum chainlocks for finality. You can find out more about the incentives and requirements to run a Syscoin masternode at sysnode.info.