Crowdsourced Threat Detector PolySwarm Goes Live on Mainnet
The network uses PolySwarm’s NCT token for transactions.
Dec 15, 2021 at 9:53 p.m. UTCUpdated Apr 10, 2024 at 2:43 a.m. UTC
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Crowdsourced threat detection firm PolySwarm went live with its mainnet, the company announced Wednesday in a tweet. Mainnet refers to a blockchain in production whose products, services and tokens are live in the wild.
- The threat detection marketplace will use PolySwarm’s nectar (NCT) token, which operates on the Ethereum blockchain.
- Here’s how it works: Users submit their URLs or files to PolySwarm to check for malicious code that could be embedded within such files. An automated engine then runs a search against several other “safe” codes, following which the user-submitted file is either deemed malicious or safe. Transactions for this service are done via nectar tokens, which are additionally rewarded to software partners and customers using PolySwarm.
- In the marketplace, security experts will compete with each other to identify and protect users against threats. Those that can correctly identify threats, will be rewarded with nectar tokens. All suppliers and consumers will also need nectar tokens to use the marketplace.
- PolySwarm has over 55 engines operating in its marketplace and these include Crowdstrike, Sentinel One and Kaspersky. Some of the company’s largest customers include Microsoft and Verizon, PolySwarm CEO Steve Bassi told CoinDesk.
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Will Canny is CoinDesk's finance reporter.