Everscale's architecture demonstrates that when software algorithms are implemented alongside a blockchain's infrastructure, the software itself ceases to be a performance bottleneck, thereby allowing transaction throughput to scale in direct proportion to network bandwidth. As such, Everscale’s architecture satisfies the three fundamental properties of a blockchain, scalability, security and decentralization. At Everscale we are demonstrating that distributed systems research is applicable to blockchain. Furthermore, and much to our surprise, it can be implemented using a mechanism that has been part of Bitcoin since day one which can be used to postdate transactions using block height instead of a timestamp. ...