Supra

Supra is a vertically integrated Layer 1 blockchain designed to consolidate the fragmented infrastructure stack that Web3 developers typically assemble from multiple independent protocols. Rather than treating oracles, randomness, cross-chain bridges, and automation as bolt-on services, Supra builds them into the base layer itself — so every application on the network inherits these capabilities without relying on external providers.

Background and Founding

Supra traces its origins to late 2017, when co-founders Joshua Tobkin and John Jones began researching blockchain throughput and performance during a stint in San Francisco. During the 2018–2020 bear market they established Unity Chain crypto lab, and the project evolved from a focused oracle research effort into a full Layer 1 vision. Tobkin has described the L1 ambition as always being central to the plan, not a late pivot; the team addressed oracles first because viable oracle solutions were scarce at the time and it allowed them to validate the core data infrastructure before building the broader network around it.

Supra launched its mainnet in November 2024. The project has raised approximately $37 million, with investors including Coinbase Ventures, Animoca Brands, Hashed, Galaxy Interactive, Huobi Capital, Prosus Ventures, and HashKey.

Core Technology

Moonshot Consensus

Supra's consensus layer is built on the Moonshot algorithm, a Byzantine Fault Tolerant mechanism that introduces an "Optimistic Proposal" design: successive block leaders can propose new blocks immediately upon receiving the previous one, without waiting for full confirmation. This pipelining reduces latency and enables sub-second optimistic finality. During advanced testing across 125 globally distributed nodes, the network demonstrated 530,000 transactions per second with approximately 500ms optimistic finality and 1.5–2 seconds full block finality. Production capacity is cited at 500,000 TPS.

DORA: Distributed Oracle Agreement

Supra's oracle layer is built on DORA, a proprietary protocol for delivering external data — crypto prices, FX rates, stock indices, and more — to smart contracts. DORA's distinguishing feature is its Tribe–Clan–Aggregator architecture:

• The full set of oracle nodes constitutes the Tribe, which tolerates up to one-third Byzantine failures.
• The Tribe is randomly divided into Clans, smaller subsets each responsible for a portion of the data pairs (a form of commodity sharding). Clans require only a majority of honest nodes, not two-thirds.
• Aggregators are Tribe members that combine clan outputs into final on-chain values.

Under normal market conditions, nodes within a clan form a coherent cluster and compute the mean of reported values. When volatility breaks coherence, the protocol falls back to the full Tribe computing a median across a supermajority of values, preserving correctness even under market stress. DORA has undergone a double-blind peer review process, and formal proofs are documented in the project's technical whitepaper. Supra claims DORA can tolerate data corruption up to 50% within clans — exceeding the 33% Byzantine fault tolerance typical of standard consensus designs. Security audits of the DORA smart contracts (both Solidity and Move implementations) are published in the project's GitHub repository.

Supra's oracle service currently supports 600+ price pairs across crypto assets, real-world assets, equities, and more, delivered across 90+ blockchain networks.

dVRF: Distributed Verifiable Random Function

Alongside price feeds, Supra offers dVRF — a distributed, verifiable source of on-chain randomness designed for applications that require provably fair outcomes, including gaming, NFTs, and lotteries. dVRF is available on Supra L1 and third-party EVM networks. Smart contract audits for dVRF (Solidity and Move versions) are also published in Supra's security audits repository.

MultiVM Support

Supra's smart contract environment supports multiple virtual machines. MoveVM is live on mainnet, allowing developers to write asset-oriented contracts in the Move language. SupraEVM (Solidity/EVM compatibility) is available on testnet. Support for SolanaVM (enabling Rust-based Solana-compatible contracts) and CosmWasm is on the roadmap.

HyperNova Cross-Chain Bridge

Supra's native bridging protocol, marketed under the SupraNova brand, uses two mechanisms depending on the target chain. HyperNova is a trustless design in which destination chains independently verify source chain events through smart contracts, rather than relying on relay node consensus. For Layer 2 networks where HyperNova is not feasible, the Hyperloop multi-signature approach is used instead.

AutoFi and Onchain Automation

Supra's automation layer — branded AutoFi — enables smart contracts to execute strategies in response to on-chain events with zero block delay, without requiring external keepers. Use cases include liquidations, recurring payments, and yield management strategies. AutoFi launched on public testnet in April 2025 and is described as "the first fully onchain automation" capable of sensing market events and executing strategies block-by-block without human intervention.

The $SUPRA Token

The $SUPRA token serves as the network's unified utility token, used for transaction fees, staking, and participation in the ecosystem. The project's iAssets mechanism implements Proof of Efficient Liquidity (PoEL), which allows LP tokens to serve as staking collateral, enabling capital to serve dual purposes simultaneously. Protocol-level revenue from AutoFi mechanisms is distributed 50% to the treasury, 25% to developers, and 25% to validators.

Ecosystem and Wallet

The StarKey Wallet is Supra's self-custodial wallet, which had accumulated over 110,000 downloads at the time of mainnet launch. It features Split Key Recovery technology for key management. The project reported 155+ memoranda of understanding with projects interested in building on Supra, and its "Project Blast Off" learn-and-earn airdrop program attracted 512,000 KYC-verified participants.

Solana Ecosystem Connection

Supra's relationship with Solana is forward-looking rather than active at launch. SolanaVM support — which would allow Rust developers to deploy Solana-compatible smart contracts on Supra — is listed on the roadmap but not yet available. Supra's oracle and dVRF services are deployed across a wide range of EVM-compatible and non-EVM networks; Solana-native oracle feeds are not currently documented as live. Developers interested in Supra's data infrastructure should consult the current supported networks list in the official documentation, as the multi-chain rollout is ongoing.

Security

Smart contract audits covering DORA (Solidity and Move) and dVRF (Solidity and Move) are published at github.com/Entropy-Foundation/security-audits. The DORA consensus protocol itself has passed a double-blind peer review. Supra also cites use of the Microsoft IVy formal verifier for protocol-level verification and maintains a bug bounty program.