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A Better Place to Build

Canopy revolutionizes web3 innovation through a layerless appchain framework + sovereign ecosystem built for security, autonomy, and unlimited scaling.

Designed for builders and innovators at every stage.

Unlocking the next generation of blockchains.

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Security-First Design

Protection is woven into every aspect of our design. Our dynamic, peer-to-peer community both provides and receives security.

Every new chain benefits, and strengthens the ecosystem overall.

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Create on Your Terms

Dream up something that's truly yours. Your rules, your timeline, your adventure.

Our tooling, resources, & ecosystem design support builders from the start, with no compromises required.

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Airspace to Grow

Our expansive architecture allows for limitless scalability, and seamless, one-way interoperability.

Growth is possible at any stage, and our ecosystem enriches with every new project that blooms.

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From Launch to Scale

Our full-lifecycle appchain toolkit provides everything you need to build, launch, and grow—all at record pace.

Now, it's possible for ideas to go to market more quickly than ever.

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Everything You Need to Scale Smarter

Building with the best doesn’t have to be hard. Our suite of tools make unparalleled building tailor-made and simple.

NestBFT: Better Consensus

A groundbreaking consensus mechanism boosting both scalability + security.

NestBFT levels up Proof-of-Stake consensus, by fusing it with the novel Proof-of-Age. It provides immediate economic security, guards against attacks, & scales to meet massive enterprise needs.

Canopy Templates

Write in your native language. Launch quickly. Maintain easily.

Development is simpler than ever with Canopy Templates. Build in the coding language you prefer, and jump start your launch—all while holding access to the full utility of Canopy's architecture.

Built-In Ecosystem Tooling

Visibility, discovery, & integration with the Canopy Explorer + Wallet

Access Canopy's built-in tooling for real-time visibility into all ecosystem activity. Validators, stakers, and traders can discover opportunities, gauge performance, and stay connected.

Deploy in One Click with the Canopy Launchpad

Launch fast. Launch with Community. Launch with Security.

Deploy an L1 in minutes with Canopy's One-Click Deployment tools. Get access to feedback, security, and distribution without the high technical and financial barriers to entry.

NestBFT: Better Consensus

A groundbreaking consensus mechanism boosting both scalability + security.

NestBFT levels up Proof-of-Stake consensus, by fusing it with the novel Proof-of-Age. It provides immediate economic security, guards against attacks, & scales to meet massive enterprise needs.

Canopy Templates

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Write in your native language. Launch quickly. Maintain easily.

Development is simpler than ever with Canopy Templates. Build in the coding language you prefer, and jump start your launch—all while holding access to the full utility of Canopy's architecture.

Built-In Ecosystem Tooling

Visibility, discovery, & integration with the Canopy Explorer + Wallet

Access Canopy's built-in tooling for real-time visibility into all ecosystem activity. Validators, stakers, and traders can discover opportunities, gauge performance, and stay connected.

Deploy a Blockchain in One Click

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Launch fast. Launch with community. Launch with security.

Deploy an appchain in minutes on Canopy. Get access to instant validation, security, and distribution without the high technical and financial barriers to entry.

How Canopy
Stacks Up

Learn what Canopy solves, compared to the existing tooling and infrastructure out there.

Feature / Benefit
Canopy
Legacy L1 Tools
Monoliths
Architecture
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Recursive, Peer-to-Peer
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A builder SDK for blockchains
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Monolith + Layers
Scaling Method
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Every new chain horizontally scales Web3
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Independently
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Semi-centralized layers
Builder Sovereignty
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Progressive
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Full
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Critical, lifelong reliance on host for security, finality, execution, and blockchain storage
Ecosystem
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New
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Fragmented
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Strong
Long Range Attack
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Proof of Age
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Centralized checkpointing
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Centralized checkpointing
Builder Difficulty
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Quick to market
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Slow to market
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Quick to market
Builder Economic Security
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Immediate
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Vulnerable at launch
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Secured by non-stakeholders
Builder Framework
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Fork & clone with templates in web2 languages
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Complex with dependecy to Tendermint
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Standards with DSL (Solidity)
Chain Resources
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Exponential: Each new chain is additive
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Independent
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Competitive
Value Capture
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L0 Premium
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L1 Premium
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Typically lower FDV than sovereign L1s
Native Interoperability
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Permissionless
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2 Way, limited to IBC
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Builder Decentralization
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Full (progressive)
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Full (immediate)
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Not decentralized

Your Top Questions, Answered

Check out the most common questions builders, stakers, and users ask before getting started with our protocol.

What is Canopy?
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Canopy is a recursive framework to build blockchains (the Canopy Stack), and the first (of many) decentralized networks to host those blockchains (the Canopy blockchain). The Canopy Stack offers developers the benefits of all blockchain layers in a single, easy to understand framework. The Canopy blockchain seeds the layerless future with the first recursive security root: a decentralized network that allows new projects to launch like a smart contract, but grow into a fully independent L0 to host future projects.

What problem does Canopy solve?
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By relying on the current security architecture of web3, developers make many compromises, from sovereignty to censorship. We believe that Web3 applications without full sovereignty are just Web2 apps with bad UX. Canopy addresses this by eliminating security and scaling bottlenecks, and maintaining interoperability and composability, solving the blockchain trilemma and enabling scalable, autonomous, and secure ecosystems.

What if I have an existing application?
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Canopy is built for new and existing applications. Canopy enables the creation of side-chains and interoperability tools, with functionality only limited to your imagination. Canopy can extend the functionality of your existing application, or act as an entirely new version. Need a scalable EVM on the side of your application? Canopy can do that. Missing incentives from your current protocol? Canopy can read your chain and build in the missing incentives as a modular side-chain.

What’s a recursive blockchain?
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Recursiveness is the ability for a system to replicate itself within the system. A recursive blockchain is a blockchain that can both give and receive security—creating nested webs of security within the network. Because those relationships are voluntary, Nested Chains can migrate, swap roots, or detach as their ecosystem grows—nothing is locked in stone. As a Nested Chain, you can compose new features or specialized logic without duplicating the entire security apparatus.

How do Nested Chains maintain interoperability while gaining sovereignty?
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Nested Chains maintain their interoperability after they gain sovereignty, because every chain in the Canopy ecosystem, nested or sovereign, relies on the same one-way permissionless interoperability. Because it is one way, relying on committees, switching the validator set changes the nodes, but not the code. In other words, nothing changes on how the network interacts with the ecosystem, preserving seamless interoperability. Sovereignty changes the signers, not the underlying architecture.

How does the Canopy protocol incentivize participation?
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The Canopy blockchain issues a block reward to incentivize restaking-based validating and delegating. Beyond that, validators and delegators receive native rewards of nested chains through our unique cross-pollinating economics.

Why does Canopy allow for restaking?
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Restaking is a core component of Canopy's economic framework, driving validator and delegator participation in the ecosystem's growth. As new Nested Chains emerge, stakeholders must restake their CNPY to maximize rewards, unlocking additional native token rewards. We anticipate that not all validators will stake for every chain, creating a dynamic where demand for new Nested Chains drives staking. Those who don't restake will experience reward dilution, as active stakeholders accumulate more rewards. This mechanism incentivizes CNPY retention, as stakeholders seek to capitalize on the expanding ecosystem.

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Forge new ground with your sovereign app

Let your ideas take root and thrive. Deploy in minutes, with instant protection, distribution, and ownership.