Crowdsourced Threat Detector PolySwarm Goes Live on Mainnet

Crowdsourced Threat Detector PolySwarm Goes Live on Mainnet
Crowdsourced threat detection firm PolySwarm went live with its mainnet, the company announced Wednesday in a tweet. Mainnet refers to a blockchain in production whose products, services and tokens are live in the wild.The threat detection marketplace will use PolySwarm’s nectar (NCT) token, which operates on the Ethereum blockchain.Here’s how it works: Users submit their URLs or files to PolySwarm to check for malicious code that could be embedded within such files. An automated engine then runs a search against several other “safe” codes, following which the user-submitted file is either deemed malicious or safe. Transactions for this service are…