Catena, formerly known as CORE MultiChain, is a PoS blockchain that focuses on Interoperability, Scalability, Usability, and Privacy. It offers advantages over existing blockchains, such as sharding, simplified blockchain creation and implementation, cross-chain capabilities, and high transaction throughput.

Catena has developed a decentralized neighbor selection protocol that aims to optimize peer connections and reduce confirmation latency. The protocol continuously analyzes and learns how nodes interact with their neighbors.

How does Catena attract people? Catena attracts people through its lightweight design, compatibility with the self-interests of each peer, robustness against adversarial actions, incentivization for prompt block relaying, and natural adaptability to varying hash-power.

Catena is the next generation blockchain protocol designed to enable legacy, current, and future blockchains to scale and communicate seamlessly. It offers various possibilities in the blockchain space due to its sharding, interoperability, and central algorithm.

By providing a fair and secure platform, Catena allows users to regain control over their personal information. It offers a scalable network that bypasses current blockchain limitations and aims to be sustainable, interoperable, and provide enhanced throughput.

Highlights of Catena include network efficiency with an AI model at its core, security strengthened by an outlier detection protocol, transaction privacy protection layer for added security and privacy, true randomness achieved through a combination of Verifiable Random Function (VRF) and Verifiable Delay Function (VDF), and enhanced scalability through the Accelerated Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (APBFT) consensus mechanism.

Users can conduct transactions on the Catena blockchain and pay for utility fees using the CMCX token. The token can also be used for governance participation, staking, transactions, smart contracts, and rewarding validators.

Catena's mission is to serve the community, and users can vote for management and developer teams using the native token (CMCX). The community also provides funding for projects and votes on proposed changes to the blockchain or platform.

Catena offers extensive research and value proposition to address current blockchain limitations, as detailed in the Whitepaper available on the Multi-chain website. Additionally, security audits conducted by CERTIK are publicly available, assessing the project's performance in various criteria such as security, runtime, documentation, testing, general aspects, and transparency.