Technical Papers on Optimum

Optimum’s breakthrough in decentralized memory infrastructure is built on 15 years of pioneering work in network coding. Led by Prof. Muriel Medard (Co-founder & CEO), co-inventor of Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC), and driven by Dr. Kishori Konwar (Co-founder & CTO) in distributed systems and coding theory, our technology redefines data handling in blockchain networks. Prof. Nancy Lynch (Advisor), whose work on Byzantine Fault Tolerance and influence on Tendermint—along with her tenure as MIT’s NEC Chair of Software Science and Engineering before Prof. Medard—further anchors our foundation in resilient, secure systems.

The papers in this section highlight how network coding advances both functional capabilities (storage, access, and propagation) and system properties (security, robustness, and attack resistance), forming the technical backbone of Optimum’s scalable solution for Web3.