F1R3FLY builds the computing foundations for organizations that cannot afford mistakes – banks, hospitals, governments. Everything that runs on F1R3FLY is checked and proven mathematically before it is implemented, so errors are caught before they can do any harm. And everything the system does is permanently recorded, so you can always look back and see exactly what happened. (The mathematics behind this is called the Rho-Calculus – a way of describing many computations happening safely at the same time.)
Every organization now runs on software, yet almost none of this software has been proven to be free of errors. Companies test their systems as well as they can, accept that failures and break-ins will still happen, and deal with the consequences afterwards – patching, insuring, apologizing. In banking and healthcare, “we tested it” is no longer an acceptable answer to a regulator. F1R3FLY exists because there is a better answer: proving mathematically, before the software runs, that it will behave as intended.
Conventional software is only ever tested, not proven. The F1R3FLY platform is proven, not tested.
Before any program runs on F1R3FLY, a checking tool called OSLF (short for Operational Semantics in Logical Form) examines it and works out, mathematically, exactly what it will do. It catches the kinds of mistakes and weaknesses behind many of the most notorious hacks and software failures before they can ever cause harm. We call this “correct by construction”: built to be correct from the start, rather than patched after something goes wrong.
Explore →Most computer systems handle work one task at a time, like a line of people at a single checkout. F1R3FLY is built on the Rho-Calculus, expressed in a programming language, Rholang, implementing mathematics designed for doing many things at once – like a supermarket opening every till at the same time. Thousands of transactions run side by side on ordinary hardware without interfering with each other. Highly secure systems that used to be too slow and expensive for everyday business become fast and affordable – and data centers get through far more work as a welcome side effect.
Explore →Every change on F1R3FLY is written into a permanent, tamper-proof record called a consensus chain – the same family of technology that protects blockchains, which has never been successfully attacked in twenty years of trying. Combined with MORK, our search engine that can comb through billions of records in seconds, an organization can always answer the question “show me exactly what happened, and why” – with proof.
Explore →This is already running in the real world. Boring Financial's gold-backed token – a digital certificate of ownership for real gold that can be bought, sold and cashed in electronically – runs on F1R3FLY. Every issue, transfer and redemption is carried out by software contracts that were mathematically checked before going live, and every step is permanently recorded. On the strength of that success, the engagement is being extended to the foundations of the client's core platform.
Read the case study (PDF) →Financial services – turning real assets into digital tokens, completing trades and payments, in a world where being provably right is a legal requirement, not a nice-to-have.
Healthcare – letting hospitals and researchers work together on shared data, and keeping AI systems accountable, without any organization giving up control of its own records.
Enterprise and public sector – tamper-proof record-keeping, software proven correct before it is deployed, and the ability to search huge collections of data scattered across separate systems.
Our founding team works directly with prospective clients and partners. Tell us what you are building – and what it would mean if it were provably correct.
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