What happened to the HoloPort Nano?

The HoloPort Nano was to be a small, low-power Holo hosting device. It promised to demonstrate to the world that resource-constrained computers could actually handle cryptographically secured peer-to-peer applications — and lots of them, in fact. Early benchmarks of our Holochain prototype proved that we could run 50 instances of a hApp (that means 50 hosted users) on a Raspberry Pi at 10,000× the processing speed of Ethereum.

While we still believe this is important to prove, the COVID pandemic has disrupted supply chains, causing worldwide chip shortages. This repeatedly delayed the expected delivery date of HoloPort Nanos. In July 2021 we made the hard decision to cancel Nano production and offer a full refund or upgrade credit for all Nano purchasers.