Supra CEO and Co-Founder Joshua Tobkin is a passionate entrepreneur with over 15 years of technology leadership, including significant experience in SaaS businesses with a focus on digital payments and online gaming.
After his first successful exit, Joshua entered the blockchain industry in late 2016, organizing groups of developers and founders to evaluate whitepapers that showcased promising research. After founding a blockchain lab in 2018, he became the project’s lead architect and co-designed Supra’s state-of-the-art Moonshot consensus algorithm.
Joshua Tobkin is a passionate founder and entrepreneur with over 15 years of technology leadership, including significant experience in SaaS businesses with a focus on digital payments and online gaming. Joshua has held a variety of positions in growth-stage companies, including Creative Director and CTO.
After his first successful exit, Joshua entered the blockchain industry in late 2016, organizing groups of developers and founders to evaluate whitepapers that showcased promising cryptographic research. After founding a blockchain lab in 2018, he became the project’s lead architect and co-designed Supra’s state-of-the-art Moonshot consensus algorithm.
Joshua is passionate about blockchain interoperability and believes that blockchain technology will revolutionize a variety of core industries such as banking, governance, and even AI.Based on these core beliefs, Joshua founded Supra to address blockchain’s core safety, data integrity, performance, and interoperability issues. While Supra began with a primary focus on solving the blockchain oracle dilemma, under Joshua leadership, the project has expanded to deliver a powerful suite of decentralized blockchain interoperability protocols.
These include HyperNova, a decentralized, trustless blockchain bridge; Moonshot, a powerful high-throughput, low-latency consensus algorithm; and Supra distributed on-chain randomness service, which provides unpredictable random numbers for applications including blockchain lotteries, NFT trait generation, and randomized blockchain node selection.
Most importantly, however, Joshua is leading Supra’s efforts to launch a revolutionary new fully vertically integrated Layer-1, which aims to be the world’s fastest, most secure, and most interoperable blockchain. Supra’s state-of-the-art L1 will provide significant advantages over the competition, with multi-VM support, native oracles, native VRF, native cross-chain communication, and native automation that will enable dApps to do new things that were otherwise impossible on a single infrastructure.
This generates a new level of in-built security and allows dApps and other blockchain protocols to effectively bootstrap liquidity while simultaneously communicating with all major L1s and L2 chains.
Supra’s goal isn't just to host great dApps; it's to help developers create 'Super dApps,' decentralized applications that are more secure, interoperable, and easy-to-use than anything else on the market today.
Supra is a next-generation blockchain that vertically integrates smart contracts, native Oracles, cross-chain communication, automation, and more into one unified, shared security infrastructure.
Supra’s core products include the world’s most decentralized blockchain oracle protocol, which currently services 500+ data pairs, and is currently deployed to 85+ chains. Other essential products include distributed Verifiable Random Function (dVRF) services, trustless, decentralized blockchain bridges, and a revolutionary cross-chain liquidity provisioning protocol.
Supra’s core mission is to break down the barriers between blockchain ecosystems to create a new era of interoperability, improving real-world use cases and bringing blockchain to the next billion people.
Supra is a blockchain startup pioneering the world's fastest, most powerful, and most decentralized blockchain data infrastructure. Most importantly, Supra is in the process of launching the world’s highest-performing Layer-1 blockchain. Currently, Supra's main products include:
Decentralized Oracles: Supra solves the blockchain oracle dilemma by utilizing cutting-edge cryptography to create the world’s first truly secure decentralized oracle. By using node randomization and our revolutionary "Tribes and Clans" model, Supra's oracles are nearly impossible to corrupt or manipulate.
Verifiable Random Function Services: Supra’s distributed Verifiable Random Function (dVRF) service provides truly random numbers for applications such as blockchain lotteries, NFT trait generation, and randomized blockchain node selection.
Blockchain Bridges: Supra has developed the industry's most decentralized and secure ‘trustless’ blockchain bridge, providing the same core safety guarantees as the underlying Layer-1 blockchain.
Cross-chain Liquidity Provisioning Protocol: Supra’s cross-chain helps act as a communication protocol between all L1s and L2 chains, making it easier than ever to stake, restake, and move assets between chains.
Vertical Integration: Supra is a fully integrated Layer 1 blockchain, providing users and devs all the services they need, all in one place. Now, having to use multiple chains, bridges, and other tools to move and bridge your assets is a thing of the past.
Moonshot Consensus: Supra's revolutionary Moonshot consensus mechanism significantly surpasses the capabilities of its predecessors Tendermint (Cosmos), Hotstuff (Libra), & Jolteon (Aptos) when it comes to block finalization throughput and latency.
For an in-depth look, here's a link to Supra's whitepapers and litepapers.
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Over the last few years, Supra CEO and Co-Founder Joshua Tobkin has relentlessly pioneered developments in blockchain technology. After a successful exit in the SaaS industry, Josh founded Supra in 2018. While Supra started with oracles, today, they’re in the process of launching a revolutionary Layer-1 blockchain. Today, Joshua will sit down with us to discuss the emerging L1 landscape, the challenges inherent in blockchain interoperability, and why cross-chain communication protocols will be the real winners in the coming months and years.
Joshua Tobkin is a figure at the cutting edge of blockchain technology. He started researching blockchain technology before Ethereum boomed-- and when Bitcoin was still a niche phenomenon. Today, he leads one of the most interesting and revolutionary startups in the blockchain data space, and is leading the launch of what might be the most exciting L1 blockchain in years. Today, Joshua will sit down with us to discuss the current state of blockchain and crypto, the real-world use cases of blockchain technology, and how protocols like Supra can bring the next billion users to blockchain and crypto.
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