Elevator Pitch

Since the inception of Ethereum, which enabled dApp development, validating off-chain data has remained a persistent challenge, affecting scalability, interoperability, and security. The main cause of this challenge is a missing component in the general architecture of dApps.

In Web2, projects typically consist of three components: Frontend, backend and database. Frontend is the user interface, the backend processes frontend requests and handles application logic while the database stores data and implements part of the logic through stored procedures.

In the Web3 development stack, smart contracts function as a combination of the database and stored procedures. However, the backend layer – which processes and validates data before pushing it to the blockchain – is missing.

‏To address this architectural challenge, we spent the last few years building Muon, a request-based, general-purpose validation layer that serves as a backend for web3 apps, allowing them to pre-process and validate any data before pushing it on-chain. In simple words, Muon takes over processing complex operations that are either not possible or not viable to perform through smart contracts. By doing so, it removes dApp limitations and greatly expands their use-cases.

To ensure security, Muon has designed a tri-layer security stack that includes different validators. See Muon Security Stack for details.