Ontology

[Ontology](https://ont.io) is a project designed to bring trust, privacy, and security to Web3 through decentralized identity and data solutions. It is building the infrastructure to provide trusted access to Web3, allowing individuals and enterprises to rest assured that through regulatory compliant digital identity solutions, users and their privacy come first. The Ontology blockchain is a high speed, low cost public blockchain. It is designed to bring decentralized identity and data solutions to Web3, with the goal of increasing privacy, transparency, and trust. To achieve this, users and enterprises are provided with the flexibility to build blockchain-based solutions that suit their needs, while also ensuring regulatory compliance. Through Ontology’s Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), Ontology ensures frictionless compatibility with Ethereum, the first step in the creation of the Ontology Multi-Virtual Machine and further interoperability for the chain. At its launch, Ontology chose to forego the popular [initial coin offering (ICO)](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/initial-coin-offering-ico) model in favor of a series of community distributions and airdrops of its ONT [cryptocurrency](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-are-cryptocurrencies). This helped to quickly establish both organic price discovery and a passionate community and helped the project to avoid subsequent regulatory scrutiny. For example, for a brief period any person who signed up for the Ontology newsletter received an airdrop of free 1,000 ONT, which reached a value of $10 per token soon after the token became listed on major exchanges like [Binance](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/binance/). Ontology [launched its own MainNet](https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/ontology-mainnet-ontology-1-0-has-officially-launched) on June 30, 2018 and has been up and running smoothly since.