Metadium is a next-generation blockchain protocol designed to create a decentralized identity ecosystem. Vitalizing the concept of self-sovereign identity enables individuals to exercise total control of their own identity - managing, securing, and utilizing personal data only under the owner’s consent. Metadium aims to present a future in which one can freely and conveniently use one’s own identity data.
Sumokoin (スモコイン in Japanese) is a fork from Monero, one of the most respectable cryptocurrency well-known for security, privacy, untraceability and active development. Starting as an educational project, we found that it would be great to create a new coin with high level of privacy by (1) moving forward right away to Ring Confidential Transactions (RingCT), (2) setting minimum transaction mixins to 12 that would make it high resistance to blockchain analysis attacks.