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- A Substrate based project called ChainFlip (https://chainflip.io), which is a service that uses the FROST protocol to swap coins from one chain to another. It is does not provide the FROST functionality as a standalone library to be used in development of other services.
- A Substrate based project that implements Threshold ECDSA Distributed Key Generation Protocol (https://github.com/webb-tools/dkg-substrate). Besides using another signature scheme (ECDSA), it is not a library that can be easily used by other projects.

Outside the Substrate / Polkadot / Kusama ecosystem ZCash Foundation has recently announced the first stable release of a FROST implementation (https://zfnd.org/frost-reference-implementation-v1-0-0-stable-release/), but has yet to integrate it in its ecosystem. There have been attempts in the past to implement off-chain threshold signing schemes, specifically by Zengo (https://zengo.com) and more recently in Solana (https://zengo.com/introducing-solanas-first-open-source-threshold-signature-library/). However, their implementation is based on an older protocol that is less efficient than the FROST protocol (https://github.com/ZenGo-X/multi-party-eddsa).
Outside the Substrate / Polkadot / Kusama ecosystem, we have found the following:
- ZCash Foundation has recently announced the first stable release of a FROST implementation (https://zfnd.org/frost-reference-implementation-v1-0-0-stable-release/), but has yet to integrate it in its ecosystem.
- There have been attempts in the past to implement off-chain threshold signing schemes to blockchain related projects, specifically by Zengo (https://github.com/ZenGo-X/multi-party-eddsa). However, their implementation is based on an older protocol that is less efficient than the FROST protocol.
- The same company has implemented a multi-signature scheme Proof of Concept in Solana (https://zengo.com/introducing-solanas-first-open-source-threshold-signature-library/), but it is a n-of-n signature scheme, which is a special case of the more flexible and powerful t-of-n scheme (https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1261.pdf).

Other than that, we have not found any integration of the FROST protocol within a relevant related ecosystem, which proves that a potential integration in the Substrate / Polkadot / Kusama ecosystem would provide a substantial advantage in this field relative to other competitors.
Other than that, we have not found any integration of the FROST protocol in a relevant related ecosystem, which shows that a potential integration in the Substrate / Polkadot / Kusama ecosystem would provide a substantial advantage in this field relative to other competitors.

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