Dec. 28, 2022 — The Occam DAO and Velas Blockchain strategic partnership proposal has passed stake-based voting. The DAO will begin integrating as an incubation and due diligence layer within the Velas blockchain, providing all the support and expertise needed to grow the Velas ecosystem.

Velas Network launched its mainnet in July 2019, and it is the first and fastest Ethereum Virtual Machine and eBPF hybrid blockchain that allows decentralized applications and smart contracts to be built on its mainnet. Velas is highly scalable and capable of validating over 50,000 transactions per second.

The network offers ideal foundations for Web3 builders to implement DApps and decentralized projects that boast market-defining speed, and equal convenience of use.

In October 2022, Occam DAO’s ambassadors had the unique opportunity to interview the CEO of Wavelength, a project building on the Velas Network. This offered a glimpse into what it is like to work with the network, and discover more about it through a Discord Soapbox session — a channel on Discord intended for project teams to present their ideas, technology and themselves to the entire Occam DAO. You can find the original chat here.

Following the Soapbox session, the Velas team submitted an Occam Improvement Proposal (OIP) in which they expressed their desire to partner with the Occam DAO in order to further grow the Velas ecosystem. In the meantime, the community learned more about the project via an insightful Twitter…