Short description
Zen is a decentralized financial platform, built from scratch with the goal of providing people with a secure, scalable and useful infrastructure for creating their own financial instruments, and trading them directly without intermediaries. The Zen blockchain is secured by multiple proof-of-work algorithms, with token-holder voting on the balance between them.
Abstract
We introduce Zen, a blockchain to trade in any kind of financial asset with the same consensus on ownership and freedom from central control that Bitcoin provides for money. These assets connect to digital agreements with powerful, programmable abilities to process information and grant rights. Zen observes the Bitcoin network and allows for assets backed with Bitcoin. Before discussing Zen in detail, let’s look at what can be done with the Bitcoin protocol itself.