Harmony is a blockchain platform designed to facilitate the creation and use of decentralized applications (DApps). The network aims to innovate the way decentralized applications work by focusing on random state sharding, which allows creating blocks in seconds.
According to the project’s website, Harmony is expected to introduce cross-shard contracts and a cross-chain infrastructure by the end of 2021.
Harmony’s Horizon Bridge facilitates transfer between Harmony and the Ethereum network, Binance Chain and Bitcoin. The Lazarus hacking group exploited a system weakness on the multichain network, thus siphoning about $100 million.
In the proposal posted via the protocol’s community page, Harmony developers revealed that over 14 different asset classes worth close to $100 million were stolen from 65,000 wallets.
