CTSI plays a crucial role in securing the Cartesi network through staking and transaction fees, ensuring smooth data processing.

🔸 What is Cartesi?
#Cartesi is the protocol that bridges the gap between the mainstream software stack and blockchain.
The infrastructure of the internet took 40 years, billions of hours of work, and trillions of dollars to build.
As a result, all the most powerful internet applications we use today are built upon decades of meticulously refined operating systems, programming languages, software libraries, and tools. Blockchains haven’t had access to any of that – until Cartesi.
With big partnerships underway, a growing ecosystem of dApps, a foothold in hot narratives like altVMs and AI, over 20% APY in staking rewards, and a game-changing token utility under development, there are a number of fundamental catalysts that point toward a face-melting breakout for Cartesi in 2025.

🔸 How does Cartesi work and what makes the project unique?
@Cartesi is a Layer 2 blockchain solution, meaning it focuses on making the blockchain faster and more scalable. The decentralized applications built on Cartesi utilize both blockchain and off-chain components, allowing the network to maintain its efficiency and speed. The platform employs a Proof of Stake consensus protocol and technologies like Optimistic Rollups and side-chains. CTSI is an ERC-20 token.
Cartesi is particularly known for being an attractive development environment. Here are the key features that make this true for Cartesi:
🔺 Mainstream Programmability: Cartesi offers an off-chain development solution, allowing developers to code smart contracts and DApps directly using regular programming tools on a Linux operating system.
🔺 High Scalability: Cartesi can theoretically achieve million-fold computational scalability. This is achieved by moving some processes off the blockchain without compromising decentralization.
🔺 Privacy: Due to its structure, Cartesi can protect the privacy of DApp users, such as gamers running decentralized games who want to keep their data anonymous.
🔺 Portability: Cartesi is not tied to a specific blockchain. This is possible because off-chain nodes (network nodes) don't "know" which blockchain they're working with. This means Cartesi applications can run on most top blockchains.
🔸 The Cartesi Machine
At the core of the Cartesi tech stack is the Cartesi Machine.
The Cartesi Machine is a virtual machine (altVM) that brings a Linux operating system to Ethereum, Optimism, Base, Avail, and other L1 and L2 blockchains.
This introduces two unique characteristics to blockchain that no other projects can offer: “backward compatibility” and “forward compatibility” with the mainstream software stack.
🔺 The Cartesi Machine is “backward compatible” with the hundreds of thousands of programming languages, libraries, and tools used to build the internet applications we use every single day.
🔺 The Cartesi Machine is also “forward compatible” with mainstream software infrastructure that hasn’t even been built or invented yet!
With Cartesi, developers can now build blockchain applications with all the tools they already know how to use – in addition to all the new tools that mainstream software developers continue to invent everyday.
🔸 Building on Cartesi?
With access to a full suite of traditional languages, libraries, and tooling, Cartesi is a general purpose development stack.

This makes the Cartesi Machine an Everything Machine.
With Cartesi, developers can build applications in any vertical – for example:
🔺 DeFi: DCA Monster is an automated market maker (AMM) that leverages ERC20 streaming to bring the super popular TradFi dollar cost averaging (DCA) strategy onchain in a way not previously possible.  Projected mainnet in 2025.
🔺 Gaming: RIVES is a first-of-its-kind onchain gaming console allowing for verifiable play of DOOM and other Nintendo-style games.  User gameplay is shareable on social media and tradable as NFTs
🔺 AI: Cartesi’s backward compatibility with mainstream AI software libraries makes it one of the only projects in the space capable of bringing AI verifiability truly onchain.  Cartesi is also uniquely positioned in the AI space because it will be forward compatible with the fast-evolving future of AI, too.  
🔸 CTSI Token Utility
CTSI is the native token of the Cartesi ecosystem. It powers the governance processes, plays a central role in the ecosystem's economics, and will align incentives to support dApp growth through the Validator Marketplace. Discover more about it and see how you can use the token to participate in these initiatives by holding, staking, voting, and more.
CTSI holders can currently stake their tokens to earn over 20% APY in rewards and participate in ecosystem governance. 
Cartesi also recently announced the development of a Validator Marketplace that will add game-changing utility to the $CTSI token.

🔸 Cartesi x EigenLayer Partnership
Cartesi and EigenLayer just partnered on an initiative to bring new builders to their joint infrastructure, with an initial focus on AI use cases, among others.
Cartesi’s compatibility with the mainstream software stack makes it uniquely positioned in the crypto x AI space.  Specifically, Cartesi’s backward compatibility means blockchain developers can leverage the mainstream AI tools that have already been built, while Cartesi’s forward compatibility makes it the easiest solution to bringing new AI developments onchain.
EigenLayer is one of the biggest projects in the industry, spending a massive warchest to bring new applications to their protocol.
A collaboration with Cartesi to kick off the year could mean that Cartesi will be a huge beneficiary of EigenLayer’s aggressive spending in 2025.
🔸 Benefits of Cartesi
Why are more investors interested in Cartesi? These are the reasons they choose CTSI:
🔺 Bridging the Gap: Cartesi bridges the gap between traditional software and the blockchain.
🔺 Developer-Friendly: Developers can use Linux components and familiar programming languages to build DApps.
🔺 High Speed and Efficiency: The network offers high speed and efficiency.
🔺 High Scalability: Cartesi can scale significantly.
🔺 Cross-Blockchain Compatibility: It can be applied to various blockchains.