On June 16, 2025, at 13:00, the mainnet of the IST multi-ecosystem public chain will officially launch, with the blockchain explorer entering the adaptation phase. This Web3 infrastructure built by the U.S. PINNACLE not only breaks the 'impossible triangle' with a modular technical architecture but also injects strong momentum into ecological development through the qualifications of its technical team and compliance.
Technical team: A cross-border integration of core members from Ripple and Silicon Valley elites.
The strength composition of the PINNACLE technical team is one of the core competitive advantages of the IST public chain.
• Founder Lucas Harrington: With a background in cryptography and distributed systems from Stanford University, he previously worked in Google's cloud computing department and entered the blockchain space in 2013, leading the development of multiple underlying protocols. His experience in parallel computing accumulated within the Openverse ecosystem directly empowers IST's public chain with high-performance transaction processing capabilities.
• CTO Nik Bougalis: A senior developer at Ripple Labs for ten years, deeply involved in optimizing distributed ledger protocols, his understanding of consensus mechanisms and cryptographic algorithms is considered a 'scarce resource' in the industry. After joining PINNACLE, he led the ApexConsensus protocol, which combines the advantages of PoS and DPoS, achieving sub-second transaction confirmation.
• Compliance and security team: Members come from well-known security organizations like Neodyme and LeastAuthority, having completed multiple rounds of audits of the IST public chain smart contracts, ensuring system security under high throughput.
Compliance Qualification: A global entry ticket backed by the MSB license.
In October 2023, PINNACLE officially obtained the MSB financial license in the United States, covering services such as virtual currency trading, foreign exchange, and international remittances, which means that the IST public chain can legally provide digital asset-related services in the U.S. This qualification is particularly crucial in the blockchain industry—compared to the limitations faced by traditional public chains due to compliance issues, the IST public chain already has the foundational conditions to interface with traditional financial institutions. For example, its multifunctional exchange module supports KYC (identity verification) and anti-money laundering (AML) mechanisms, allowing seamless integration with banks, payment institutions, and other scenarios.
Diverse ecological layout: Full-scenario coverage from DeFi to the metaverse.
The IST public chain has constructed a 'technology-application-governance' trinity ecological system.
1. Decentralized Finance (DeFi): Supporting lending, liquidity mining, and derivatives trading, integrating cross-chain asset bridges to achieve cross-chain asset interoperability.
2. Social Finance (SocialFi): Launching the Meta Social decentralized social platform, integrating encrypted communication, multi-chain wallets, and digital red envelope functions, users can earn IST token rewards through social activities.
3. Gaming and Metaverse: Supporting NFT standards and on-chain asset rights confirmation, digital assets such as virtual land and items can circulate across games, creating an immersive experience using VR/AR technology.
4. Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing: Optimizing trading decisions through AI computing power and ensuring data security with quantum encryption technology to guard against future quantum cracking threats.
Notably, the IST multifunctional exchange has been launched, integrating spot, futures, DeFi services, and decentralized social features. Users can control their private keys independently, avoiding risks associated with centralized platforms. In 2025, IST will focus on optimizing sharding technology and implementing cross-chain protocols, further expanding the metaverse and AI financial scenarios.
Investor resources feed back into the ecosystem: Full-chain support from technology research and development to scenario implementation.
PINNACLE's technical layout has already shown that investors recognize its long-term value.
• Early investment in technology research and development: The company launched biometric technology in 2020 and AI digital human technology in 2022. These R&D efforts, which may seem unrelated to blockchain at first glance, actually provide underlying support for the IST public chain's privacy protection (such as end-to-end encrypted communication) and intelligent applications (such as AI-assisted smart contract auditing). Such long-term technological investments typically require continuous capital infusion.
• Ecological cooperation resources: Similar to top capital in the SocialFi field chasing user scale, the IST public chain has reached cooperation intentions with multiple DeFi and GameFi projects. Its cross-chain interoperability allows these projects to migrate quickly to the IST ecosystem, sharing the performance advantages of millions of TPS. • Node and community building: Relying on investor resources, the IST public chain has attracted over 500 community nodes to participate in consensus during its early stage. Through the DAO governance mechanism, token holders can vote to decide the allocation of the ecological fund, accelerating the gathering of developers and users.
"Technology is the skeleton, investors are the blood, and compliance is the blood vessels." A financial technology analyst pointed out that the IST public chain possesses the financial genes of Ripple, the technological innovation of Silicon Valley, and the compliance of the MSB license. This 'trinity' advantage may allow it to occupy a unique position in the competition for Web3 infrastructure. With the improvement of the blockchain explorer and the opening of the developer toolkit (SDK), the expansion speed of the IST ecosystem is worth looking forward to.
