What is HashNET? HashNET is a scalable, fast, secure, and fair decentralized- beyond blockchain project, leveraging Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and consensus algorithm which keeps all positive characteristics of a blockchain technology while increasing throughput to more than 200,000 transactions per second. Network is using Proof-of-Stake with masternodes, which eliminates the need for a massive energy consumption.
DEMOS comes from ancient Greek, meaning democracy, and also means collective. DEMOS is mainly to provide help for more and more public chains. In the process of helping, they gather public chains.