What is Alephium?
Scalable for devs. Secure for users. Decentralized for all.

Innovative sharding meets expressive sUTXO and efficient Proof-of-Less-Work to secure scalable dApps for real-world use cases.

**From its technical design to its interfaces**, Alephium has been created to address the challenges of accessibility, scalability, and security encountered by decentralized applications today.

**It is programmable & secure.** Alephium proposes a stateful UTXO model offering layer-1 scalability and the same level of programmability as the account model implemented on ETH, whilst being more secure.

**It is less energy consuming thanks to PoLW.** Proof of Less Work combines physical work and Coin economics to dynamically adjust the work required to mine new blocks. Given the same network conditions, Alephium only uses ⅛ of the energy compared to Bitcoin.

**It improves on chain structure with its own custom VM (Alphred)**. It resolves many of the critical issues of the current dApps platforms with huge improvements on security, development experience and introductions of new paradigms such as trustless P2P smart contracts transactions.

**It has its own programming language for dApps.** It allows to build efficient and secure smart contracts easier than Solidity for example. It is specifically designed to facilitate the creation of Decentralized Finance applications, hence its name.