📙Galactica Network Overview

What is Galactica Network?

Galactica Network is a Layer 2 blockchain built with the Arbitrum Orbit SDK, designed to provide the core infrastructure for compliant, privacy-preserving identity and reputation in decentralized finance (DeFi), decentralized society (DeSoc), and real-world asset (RWA) applications.

Galactica leverages Arbitrum’s secure, scalable L2 architecture while introducing its own identity-centric execution environment - the Identity Virtual Machine (IVM) - purpose-built to power zkKYC, and programmable compliance across chains.

Core components of Galactica include:

  • ZK Certificates On-chain, non-transferable attestations (e.g. zkKYC) that verify zero-knowledge proofs of off-chain data, such as age, jurisdiction, or accreditation, without revealing the underlying information. These credentials are issued and validated through trusted Guardians.

  • Reputation Engine (Soul Scores) Galactica computes on-chain and off-chain signals into customizable reputation metrics, enabling trustless credit scoring, governance weighting, and airdrop eligibility all while preserving user privacy.

  • Contingent Transactions Smart contract actions can include dynamic identity and compliance checks, such as verifying if a user is over 18, in a permitted region, or above a minimum reputation threshold before allowing execution.

🔗 Key Integrations and What They Unlock

  • Alchemy Galactica runs on Alchemy’s high-throughput Supernode infrastructure, enabling sub-second zkKYC attestations, gasless transactions (via ERC-4337).

  • Hyperlane Galactica integrates with Hyperlane for permissionless cross-chain messaging, allowing zkKYC credentials to move securely between EVM and non-EVM chains.

  • The Graph Galactica identity data (SBT, zkProof, etc.) is indexed through The Graph’s decentralized infra, unlocking real-time compliance logic and credit flows across DeFi and RWA protocols.

  • Arbitrum Orbit As a chain built with Orbit, Galactica benefits from 100% on-chain validation, rapid finality, and seamless bridging for identity-linked assets and credentials.

🚀 Use Cases

Galactica’s stack powers a wide range of applications:

  • Regulation-Ready DeFi Enable compliant access control and structured products using zkKYC, encrypted identity proofs, and on-chain attestations, integrated with partners like Syntetika and Hilbert Group.

  • Omnichain Identity & Airdrops Through Hyperlane and Orbit, Galactica makes it possible to verify once, use everywhere, distributing identity-bound tokens, gated airdrops, and cross-chain credentials with zero data leakage.

🧠 Final Word

Galactica is not just a chain - it’s the identity and reputation layer for the multichain world. Built on Arbitrum Orbit, scaled by Alchemy, indexed by The Graph, and connected by Hyperlane, Galactica brings together privacy, compliance, and composability to unlock the next era of decentralized applications.

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