David Chan and Tom Whelan have both had long careers building large
          complex systems, and in 2018 began looking at the latest advances in
          the areas of security, scalability, and resilience.  The aim was
          to improve the security of application software stacks. 
          Applications are developed with security as an afterthought and even
          then, the use of security is handcoded leading to mistakes.
          
          What was needed was a software stack where security was not only
          built-in to the stack, but was placed at the base layer so that it is
          given the highest priority and can control the whole stack.  This
          Secure By Default approach would provide security controls
          automatically.
        
      
      
        
          Retrofitting an existing stack with a security base layer didn't work
          because they are such different paradigms so the only course of action
          was to develop a new runtime computing stack.  Along the way, new innovations were
          developed such as a fast scalable blockchain that utilises edge computing.
          
          Eventually, in December 2020, the company eCora (eCoraDLT Limited) was
          incorporated in Leicester, United Kingdom and received angel funding
          in early 2021.  In November 2021, eCora filed a patent on their
          efficient blockchain protocol which allows lower powered devices such
          as IoT and phones to run a layer one protocol.