Amaroo

n. A beautiful place.

The internet didn’t replace networks. It connected them. We do the same for assets and value.

Where Amaroo comes from.

One idea, pursued since 2013: markets that work across chains with no one in the middle.

2013
Max Kaye designs Marketcoin, a peer-to-peer exchange between Bitcoin-like currencies: orders are matched in blocks, and payments are proven against the other chain.
2014
Max Kaye writes up microchains: a shared, scalable Proof of Work container, a chain whose only job is to wrap data in Proof of Work.
2016
The Polkadot whitepaper credits Max Kaye as an early proponent of decoupling consensus from the state transition.
“Decoupling the underlying consensus from the state-transition has been informally proposed in private for at least two years—Max Kaye was a proponent of such a strategy during the very early days of Ethereum.”
Polkadot whitepaper, Draft 1, November 10, 2016, section 2.2, p. 2
2021
Max Kaye invents Proof of Reflection and Ultra Terminum: chains designed to secure one another by counting each other’s work. Amaroo forms.
2025
The whitepaper: “Amaroo’s Consensus Strategy: Ultra Terminum”, by Max Kaye, dated July 22, 2025.
2026
US patent 12,706,764 is granted for Amaroo’s consensus between cooperating chains. It covers Proof of Reflection and Ultra Terminum.

Where the name comes from.

Amaroo is an Aboriginal word recorded as meaning “a beautiful place.” Our mark draws that place: a mountain, a river in the middle and the grass fields.

As recorded by the ACT place names register.

Mission

Amaroo brings convergence to the world of blockchains, giving users and smart applications the freedom to build new markets.

Vision

An open backbone for new, emerging, and evolving economies.

Why Amaroo?

Blockchains grew up as islands: each keeps its own assets, users and security, and moving value between them has meant trusting someone in the middle. We designed Amaroo so chains secure one another instead of competing, and so anyone can trade across them from their own wallet.

Why a layer 1?

Because the architecture we needed, one that natively unifies diverse chains, embeds a protocol-native DEX and scales collaboratively, couldn’t be bolted onto an existing network. It had to be re-imagined from the ground up. Amaroo isn’t just another chain: it is the groundwork for secure, scalable, truly cross-chain collaboration, built for problems a bolted-on design can’t solve.

The full essay: Why Amaroo

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