Waterfall is a layer1 blockchain designed to address speed, security, and scalability issues while providing a truly decentralized governance platform. Waterfall's Directed Acyclic Graph ("DAG") implementation allows it to run a validator node from any device, including low-cost laptops and mobile phones. Waterfall is 100% compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), allowing for portability of decentralized applications (dAPPs) and very low hardware requirements for participants to become validators.