Aeternity (AE) is a blockchain platform for Decentralized Applications (DAPPs). Launched in 2017, the project is heavily involved with the industry’s problems of scalability. Additionally, Aeternity has quite a robust offering of baked in technological extensions inside of itself such as the “decentralized oracle machine”; allowing for on-chain smart contracts to communicate with outside sources of data. Of course, it must be highlighted that AE has state channel capabilities, meaning that there is a base layer “lightning network” in the ecosystem. 
   The dual consensus has a split role in the network, the PoW secures and validates the network while the “PoS” allows for token holders to participate in on-chain decision making/voting.