Why we are named after an alphabet.

In the 860s, two brothers named Cyril and Methodius set out on a mission with an unusual tool: an alphabet. The Slavic peoples had a language of their own, but no script to write it in. The brothers made one. The letters that grew from their work, finished by their followers, carry one of their names. Hundreds of millions of people read them every day.

In 2009, someone else started a book. A new page has been added roughly every ten minutes since, in public, and no line can be erased. Every payment, every liquidation and every large move is in it. It is one of the most open records ever made, and almost nobody can read it, because it was written for machines.

That is why we are called Cyrillic Metrics. We are trying to do for the chain what those letters did for a language: give ordinary people a way to read what was always there. The twelve letters are open to everyone. The thirteenth is Я, the word for I, and it is the one we build for: your own book, read clearly.

So we build two tools. The Reader is for traders: your whole book on one page. The Lexicon is for the people who build on the chain, and gives them its words as clean data. Both read the same exact record, and neither ever guesses.