On July 15, Constellation Network, in collaboration with the United States military, launched its Hypergraph blockchain to application developers at a global hackathon event hosted alongside tech titans IBM and Panasonic.

This hackathon heralded the advent of Constellation’s “meta graph” application layer, empowering third-party developers to craft Web3 applications or even new layer-1 blockchains atop Hypergraph’s robust infrastructure.

Hypergraph, a “Layer 0” protocol, is engineered to validate and store data from interoperable applications and networks, known as “meta graphs,” on its ledger. According to the announcement, these meta graphs can handle any data type, directly interface with external data sources, and support mainstream programming languages like Java.

“Constellation’s Hypergraph is the blockchain of blockchains,” declared Ben Jorgensen, CEO of Constellation Network. “The future of Web3 and blockchain technology lies in interoperability and collaboration across chains and communities.”

In 2019, Constellation broke new ground by securing a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to explore blockchain technology applications for national security. The network also partners with the U.S. Space Force and Treasury Department, as highlighted in the statement.

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Per its website, Constellation is exploring use cases under its DoD contract, such as facilitating secure encrypted communications and aggregating data from disparate legacy systems. It is also collaborating with the U.S. Air Force to prototype technology aimed at securing military data streams from cyberattacks.

Constellation’s blockchain technology is designed to “thwart spoofing attacks by preventing the interception and replacement of an existing data stream with one from a hostile agent,” according to an Air Force memorandum cited on Constellation’s website.

In 2018, Constellation distributed its native token, DAG. The DAG token secures the Hypergraph network through a staking mechanism and is poised to benefit from the proliferation of new metagraph applications, as detailed on their website.