Zurich, Switzerland, November 19, 2024 – Anapaya announces that the Sui blockchain will be integrating the SCION network architecture, offering unprecedented high-performance, secure, and resilient connectivity for its validator nodes. This collaboration between Anapaya, InterCloud, Cyberlink, and Mysten Labs marks a major milestone in blockchain security and connectivity, offering a groundbreaking solution for mitigating key vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure.
One of the major threats to blockchain networks today is the vulnerability of traditional Internet infrastructure, where malicious actors can interrupt network traffic. This enables attackers to intercept, drop, or even impersonate legitimate communication partners. Until now, no blockchain has had a comprehensive solution to defend against these types of attacks. The Sui blockchain becomes the first to integrate SCION, a next-generation network architecture developed to combat these vulnerabilities. The SCION network provides Sui validator nodes with secure, fault-tolerant, and high-performance connectivity, enhancing the blockchain's overall stability and robustness.
The partnership between Anapaya, InterCloud, Cyberlink, and Mysten Labs has made it possible for Sui to leverage SCION’s advanced capabilities, ensuring reliable communication and network security. The partnership represents a significant advancement in blockchain technology, as SCION ensures secure, isolated network paths that prevent common vulnerabilities associated with traditional Internet infrastructures. By leveraging SCION’s path control, Sui validator nodes will be equipped with reliable, resilient connectivity, ensuring optimal network performance and enhanced security for blockchain operations.
"By integrating SCION into Sui, not only the network performance of the Sui blockchain is improved, routing becomes transparent and predictable, Sui also is the first blockchain offering its validators a fully isolated global network protecting its validators against attacks performed from the traditional Internet" said Martin Bosshardt, CEO of Anapaya. "This partnership ensures that the blockchain ecosystem can grow without the risk of traffic manipulation and interception."
With InterCloud and Cyberlink’s role in facilitating the infrastructure and connectivity, the integration of SCION into Sui represents a significant advancement in blockchain security, enabling seamless and secure validator node operations.
Jérôme Dilouya, CEO at InterCloud, explained that “InterCloud addresses these needs by deploying SCION technology across its backbone, offering a premium connectivity solution for high-demand applications. Our extensive global reach and multiple access points—whether through public Internet Exchanges, private local loops, or cross-connects—allow SCION customers a scaled-up, secure network infrastructure, even accessible from major cloud regions worldwide.”
Globally distributed systems, such as content delivery networks, often operate their own private networks to achieve security, control, and isolation. However, blockchains cannot rely on the same solutions to defend against network-layer attacks. One of the key promises of blockchains is their decentralization.
“Blockchain Networks require a public, distributed, and redundant network that is guaranteed to be available at any time”, said Thomas Knüsel, CEO of Cyberlink. “SCION combines the benefits of private and public networks and fulfills all these requirements, by providing defense against routing attacks, path selection, packet authentication and bandwidth reservation. At Cyberlink, we are proud to contribute our expertise through operating Sui’s global, SCION-based network jointly with InterCloud.”
About Anapaya
Anapaya is a Swiss company that strives to enhance Internet security and connectivity through the SCION Internet architecture, a groundbreaking technology offering secure routing, resiliency against DDoS attacks, and high availability.
Anapaya's solutions empower global businesses to operate with confidence in today's world by delivering higher security and flexibility for their business-critical services and data communication.
Together with its partner ecosystem of telecommunication companies, system integrators, and cloud providers, Anapaya is making the SCION Internet accessible to everyone. Customers include the Swiss National Bank and SIX with the Swiss Secure Finance Network, the Health Info Net with the Secure Swiss Health Network and the Swiss Federal Administration, among others.
Anapaya was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland.
About InterCloud
InterCloud’s end-to-end global connectivity platform eliminates the complexity in deploying the cloud, giving businesses full control over the security, sovereignty and performance of their critical data traffic with complete peace of mind.
Working with organisations to help them transform global connectivity, reduce network complexity and accelerate growth and innovation, InterCloud is a trusted advisor to some of the world's leading brands when it comes to leveraging the cloud for future success.
With offices across Europe, the company's platform is underpinned by its team of cloud experts who guide customers to implement effective strategies to leverage the power of the cloud across their organization – making global connectivity a driver for business performance.
About Cyberlink
Founded in 1995, Cyberlink AG is an independent Swiss managed service provider for ICT infrastructures. The service portfolio includes cloud and connectivity services and is aimed exclusively at business customers. Innovation and quality are part of Cyberlink’s DNA. The company is at the forefront of the market launch of SCION – a new Internet architecture developed at ETH Zurich. Its cloud platform is one of the most modern ones in Switzerland and services provided are audited according to the ISAE 3402 standard. For more than a decade, Cyberlink has consistently received top marks in the Swiss Bilanz Telekom Rating, winning the category “ISP & Corporate Networks” seven times in a row. The 40 employees are based in Zurich and the company is 100% owned by the Swiss management.
Link to the press release: here
About Mysten Labs
Mysten Labs is a team of leading distributed systems, programming languages, and cryptography experts whose founders were senior executives of Meta's Novi Research and lead architects of the Diem blockchain and Move programming language. The mission of Mysten Labs is to create foundational infrastructure for web3. Visit the website to learn more.
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