Shakil Muhammad / RNS Solutions
Shakil Muhammad on Antlia blockchain protocol and real world applications
In this episode
Ashton Addison interviews Shakil Muhammad, PhD, the Founder of RNS Solutions, a top software development company in Pakistan which has developed Blockchain use cases for over 40 different projects. We discuss the in-house Blockchain protocol Antlia, and its use in the Blockchain industry. We focus on the scalability, decentralization, security, and interoperability benefits of Antlia’s Blockchain and discuss real world use cases.
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- RNS Solutions has developed blockchain-related software for over 40 projects, including public blockchains, cryptocurrency exchanges, wallets, and fintech applications for international banks.
- Antlia is a public blockchain built on the Cosmos network designed for interoperability and scalability, enabling seamless data and asset sharing between different blockchain ecosystems.
- Antlia uses roll-over bonded proof of stake consensus where only 75 of 100 validators randomly participate every five blocks to balance security, decentralization, and scalability.
- The platform prioritizes safety over liveness, following Cosmos tradition, to maintain strong security foundations as blockchain value grows.
- Antlia's native Honor coin functions as the economic blood of the blockchain ecosystem, enabling autonomous transactions in future use cases like autonomous vehicles and charging networks.
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you for being here i'd love to kick off our talk just getting an overview of rns solutions as your development and the antlia blockchain rna solution if i just reconstruct rns it's a reliable and secure solutions so we are software development risk firm so we develop blockchain related software but when we see blockchain we see the block
or the software that should be more secure but we believe the block software and the block blockchain they should be reliable and then secure so that's how we come up with the name of our rna solution back in 2017 we have done over 40 plus blockchain related products we developed a public blockchain we have developed cryptocurrency exchanges some apps wallers
d-apps and we are involved with the fintech application as well for the international banks for example we are working with international islamic development bank that is a common bank for all that islamic wealth related islamic countries those have some wealth management related things so this is rna solution
so rna solution basically is in different country but main headquarters in pakistan okay so because in pakistan the population is higher and the developers are pretty good we believe yeah if you go in outsourcing community they are in top three countries for outsourcing because there's not big
companies like facebook google those have their headquarters there like in india they have and they are sucking up the talent but in pakistan we are the facebook and the google those are providing our source software so that is our solution that's very interesting shaquille and what i really like about that is that you've worked on 40 plus different blockchain protocols
and you get a of deep understanding of the benefits but also the limitations of each of the protocols and with that now your team is going in-house and developing antlia blockchain solutions really to solve all of those problems that you've experienced throughout developing on all these other platforms so i think that's super cool so if you could just explain a little bit more
about you know antlia blockchain what makes it unique and how you came to start building that would be great so anthalia is a part of cosmos network chains community so the cosmos philosophy is there will not be one or two public blockchain there will be multiple there is no like global language as it is in the
world and there is no global system or no global database where we are putting off the blockchains are also similar like localized blockchain for the need and the purpose and for the specific industry so anthony is also public blockchain so we are also one of the not we are little bit more generalized than the application specific blockchain our ultimate goal have to be
Interoperable blockchain and scalable for data and asset sharing seamlessly okay how data and asset sharing for example there is a ashton coin there is a shaquille coin and we are two different ecosystem and they are not listed directly and they are different chains for example the framework is different one is on ethereum one is on for example
anthalia and how we can swap those token are the data between because right now we when we talk about blockchain we talk about only data assets we are not talking about the data sharing in coming days so that is the ultimate goal of antholia and as i said anthony is so we are following the interoperability like the local
interoperability like you for example you have a polish language i have for example urdu language and we want to communicate there is this is local interoperability but if we put some in between some language that's a global language and then that's a global interoperability english is providing us so we believe for the data and for the
asset sharing there will be local interoperability instead of the global interoperability and yeah that's all in nutshell but his anthalia project i like that because right now there is a nice standard with ethereum having the erc20 protocol and the tokens are interoperable but really even bitcoin doesn't work with that protocol you have to integrate it
in using these side measures and same with all of the other blockchains and now with this decentralized finance movement it's all turning into decentralized swapping and not using a third party to swap coins and that you can't really have that cross block chain swap if unless you're using a third party which sort of defeats the purpose of a decentralized movement
so i think focusing on the interoperability is definitely key and another part i want to focus on as well is the security of the platform you know as these blockchains grow also the need for security needs to grow as well because there's more value locked inside there you know in terms of growing the platform from the beginning obviously
you want to have a strong foundation so you don't have a giant tower with a weak foundation can you talk about how you approached that as you were developing antlia from the beginning yeah so we prefer safety over liveness in term of our chain and if there is like blockage in the network so we will prefer safety as following with the cosmos
tradition for the security we are providing bonded proof of stake from the validator so it's a basically practical byzantine fault tolerance consensus engine and on top of it the validator are providing security but the tendermint have one challenge that is like centralization for centralization we to make it more decentralized we made it roll over proof of stake or
you can say rule over bonded proof of stake so we just remove bonded to not make confusion about our consensus india so this rollover proof of stake what does it do if you have like 100 validator out of 100 only 75 will participate for the consensus randomly so and after five blocks not on every blocks otherwise your scalability
will go down yeah you will go for consensus every second so this is how we deal with the security through bonded proof of stake through datas yeah it's a really interesting dilemma where you need to focus on the scalability but also the decentralization and also the security and the interoperability there's all these moving parts right and i think that you're
you're from what it looks like your team's doing a good job at balancing those acts so that's great and also i want to add into the conversation about the a you know antlia cryptocurrency how that works in with the core ecosystem provides value and you know drives value to the users of the community in the ecosystem can you touch on the coin as well oh
yeah sure blockchain without coin is like a body without blood so this will be i met one nobel laureate back in 2013 i believe in the city where i am living in dayton so he actually developed one clock and i asked him like there's why you got like nobel prize because of this clock
what does what is the specialty of that clock what is the use of actually that clock it was like private session when in networking party so he said actually i don't know exactly the application of my clock this clock will be useful after 50 years after 50 years yeah then he explained me when we will be traveling in cosmos
Through different stores then there will little error will be also challenging so error propagation will make a bigger deal and the accurate time that time will be a very important thing the same way right now if we see these these coins ecosystem we see for right now it's not for right now yeah give people
example when you're autonomous car if you see every day how the auto industry is changing so you see they have they have to move independently maybe i will be sending my car my car might be entire car can you come here i am waiting here and can you come here after park because some time maybe parking may be expensive here i am
and i will send it to some nearby place so that car needs some charging how they will be charging like there's no person now we have gasoline station and we fill up and when there will be autonomous cars and autonomous charging and the autonomous ecosystem for trading money are buying and selling yeah that's how coin
will play role in coming days so enter your coin in antholia we have a coin called honor coin and that will be the blood of the economy of the whole blockchain we are launching not only with the blockchain initially our blockchain initially we will be taking validator for the testnet and then we are launching our two exchanges the first exchange will be centralized
via centralized we still didn't solve in defy or decentralized world the problem of providing fiat liquidity and because we are still living in the world of yacht mostly and some part we were living there on cryptocurrency birth and in the upcoming world you can see in detail where it's like 80s of internet yeah but definitely but mostly we were living
in the real world and some some people were like on digital world on and they were on internet so that's how we are starting with our centralized to provide fiat liquidity to our token ecosystem and then the rest will be decentralized apps decentralized aggregator decentralized aggregator for the asset
sharing for when i called it asset sharing that's not only the coins and that's also our data maybe asset maybe some crypto kitties kind of things that will be the assets that it might be the real estate asset so that kind of in inter interoperable aggregator to provide trading aggregator
and then the chain we will be launching together yeah great well you know what i think that's a great approach and charles hoskinson when he was on the show he had a similar you know ideology where you really it's it's a lot harder to get a really strong project off the ground when it's fully you know community run and decentralized and starting with a little
bit of centralization to help build the momentum and then being able to release it to the community i think it is a good approach so it sounds like you know you sort of understand where you're going with that and you know we're running out of time shaquille but i want to hear about the future of antlion r s moving forward can you talk about what are the next upcoming
milestones that the community can look forward to yeah so we will be more active right now the last year we did olympia blockchain olympiad in pakistan there were a different university collaborated with us and we made five people group to participate in our olympiad and they can we divided projects in smaller phases so they can learn so i'm very happy one of
participants in olympia they joined rna solution for the permanent position and right now we are collaborating with different universities i am a part of committee for government of pakistan for looking think future for the blockchain so anthony will be there r d we will not contain only to the entire but we will open up for all other chains but antholia will be
one of the major force for r d project different university students can participate and they can get benefit of doing rnd work on antholia that is moving part another is we were not doing more much kind of marketing because we were not doing kind of ico so we had our own funds how usually people ask me how do you run your business do you have
a funding do you receive funding from somewhere i told them it's like business approach are different usually some people see like the fund getting funding and then doing something and some people are like okay i will do something i learn doing making money and then making something so we made money by developing software and then we develop software as you mentioned charles has
cancer he's one of great guy he needs some money and then he's doing a very very exciting project i love this he's one of the blockchain guy that i fascinate i love him and he knows that and he's great guy and he has the same philosophy like he's using his own money to build some the sentiments are different here yeah
when you are taking the investor of money and you are building something the sentiments are different when we see how to do marketing the crowd funding is one of the solution you have to do little bit crowdfunding to get marketing to get users on your ecosystem so for that reason we have we are going to be
Do some crowdfunding to get users okay it will be very very limited this is what we are looking in future and we will be doing more marketing so the marketing basically many people say ico is bad icu were bad yeah there were bad elements we developed many icos we had done dozens of icos platform for other clients and we see some were totally
they even didn't know what is blocked in why they are in crypto space and they built those icos platform but if you see for the marketing purpose this is the beauty of ico and this will remain there we are not going to do ico we will be doing everything very legalized if not like legalize in grey's areas but not going on the black side of
the world now so this is the future and that's how we started marketing this month exactly still our marketing team is not active they will be active from next week and the development team we revamp our website it was just a placeholder before the most active thing was our gitlab now we and github is also a little bit code is there but it will
be also active right now you can see from last month onward it will be very active so this is what we are doing a lot of collaborations sorry a lot of collaboration with different universities for rnd with the government we want to open up our chain for the adoption they might do some pilot protests for cbdc and some marketing stuff and
later on for investment to get some users on our chain and open up for test net our main nets very exciting shaquille sounds like you have a lot of partnerships in the works and there's a lot going on so all the best moving forward with antlia and with rns solutions and i'll leave the links to all of your platforms in the description box below for the viewers as well
and thanks so much for the time let's follow up in the near future thank you so much ashton for this time lovely to talk to you it's amazing your channel is amazing keep doing a good job for the adoption thank you
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