Shield is the project designed to be the next generation in the blockchain development, and its natural next step. Their main goal as they declare is the “future-proofing” of the blockchain technology, making it scalable, making it user-oriented, developer-friendly, and immensely usable in the real world. The transaction time is being cut down with every new development and iteration of the blockchain project, and SHIELD intends to take even a step further than the rest platforms do. The transaction time is unbelievably fast in the Shield platform, and in order to take the security of the blockchain further than even the most secure currently-operational projects could do it, SHIELD employs a hybrid consensus mechanism of no fewer than six different Proof-of-Work variations, and a natively-built, custom Proof-of-Stake mechanism. That is done in order to ensure the most security possible while sacrificing the least amount of platform efficiency. Shield even allows social media integration and a specific signature to combat quantum computing threats.