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portal-network-specs
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Signal founder’s constructive criticism of web3
Other blockchain networks struggle because it's not trivial for wallets to have embedded nodes. It's not even really easy to do on Ethereum since light clients are hard to use, but this is improving with better infrastructure. The other hurdle for the Ethereum ecosystem is the reliance on the web stack, which trains users that the default way to interact with these networks is through a web browser, which is another limiting factor for being able to run your own node. And so yeah, obviously people will rely on Infura. But it doesn't have to be like that, this is a just result of the technology being limited (irrationally self-imposed, with the reliance on web browsers) rather than users' true desires.
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POKT was one of the most interesting projects on ETH Denver, POKT North Star (v1) release is going to help decentralize the entire web3 in a big way
The solution is to build a different structure that eliminates the antagonistic relationships between the parties, where there's no economic advantage to scale. There's this project directly backed by EF doing that but that doesn't have VC backing and there's no token so obviously there's no hype machine pushing it along.
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Web3APIs vs Ethers.Js?
Or better, eventually, do in a distributed way with something like the portal network: https://github.com/ethereum/portal-network-specs
- Daily General Discussion - January 9, 2022
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My First Impressions of Web3
From the post:
> People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will...
Fair enough, but there are active efforts to develop ultra-light clients for Ethereum together with the concept of "portal network":
https://github.com/ethereum/portal-network-specs/
https://our.status.im/nimbus-fluffly/
> there’s not even a word for an actual untrusted client/server interface that will have to exist somewhere, and no acknowledgement that if successful there will ultimately be billions (!) more clients than servers.
I would not say there's "no acknowledgement" of this; depending on how deep you are in the space, it's pretty obvious that the goal is to have layered networks and mission specific networks (storage vs. messaging vs. consensus), all economically incentivized, that are p2p through and through, from the resource constrained devices of end consumers to the staking nodes that secure the networks. That's the hope, the goal, and the focus of ongoing efforts.
The opposite of the missing word is "a node in a p2p network".
The points made about the difficulty in evolving protocols quickly are not lost on me, but I guess I'm more optimistic than the author that it will happen relatively quickly in coming years, including this one. In the process, there will be opportunities seized where the protocols fall short and half-measures or worse (with respect to decentralization) will generate excitement for a time. That seems like "growing pains" to me.
- The Portal Network
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Impromptu technical AMA on history expiry
Older blocks, transactions and receipts/logs would still be accessible through dedicated sub-protocols (eg. the Portal Network) or externally developed protocols (eg. TheGraph), in addition to a much smaller but still sufficient number of volunteer nodes and block explorers. Note that many dapps are already moving their historical data queries to TheGraph and similar protocols for efficiency.
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State Network DHT - Development Update #2 - Eth1.x Research
Does this help? https://github.com/ethereum/stateless-ethereum-specs/wiki/Glossary
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Making the ecosystem more light-client friendly
Reorganize the p2p network to make providing proofs simpler and cheaper; see Piper Merriam's work on this.
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Weak statelessness and/or state expiry: coming soon (x-post from EthMagicians)
Piper Merriam's work on distributed state storage and state and witness availability: https://ethresear.ch/t/scalable-transaction-gossip/8660 and https://github.com/ethereum/stateless-ethereum-specs/pull/54
solana
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Projects to contribute to
Solana (9700 GitHub Stars) https://github.com/solana-labs/solana
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DuneAnalytics - A Guide to Solana for Ethereum Analysts
EIP Core standards: Changes to Solana’s core code go through “feature gates” in the Solana repo. Yes, it’s much less organized than the EIP pages you are used to, and a headache to understand or keep up with. A cost of the speed of development, I’m told.
- Rust Cryptography Should Be Written in Rust
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How Solana Ignores Security Best Practices
I visited the project on github (https://github.com/solana-labs/solana), and tried to get an overview of the ~800 open issues and ~100 open PRs.
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Top 10+ Blockchain Networks to look for in 2023
Solana
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Blockchains: Ethereum vs Solana vs Avalanche vs MultiversX (Elrond). What are the differences?
With the introduction of new and advanced blockchain platforms in the Web 3.0 scene, the narrative around Ethereum has slowly shifted towards its younger “Ethereum Alternatives”. Solana, Avalanche, and MultiversX (former Elrond) are some of the crypto blockchains that are given this terminology, as they share similar features but are comparatively cheaper and better than Ethereum.
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Helium Mobile
I understand this initiative is connected with Solana network [1] in some way?
[1] https://solana.com/
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Hacked for over $2 million on Solana DeFi Exchange Raydium
They do, actually: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/security/policy
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Proof of History algorithm
Not sure I understand your question, but if you want the source code you can find it on github (https://github.com/solana-labs/solana)
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Solana Foundation just held the first-ever core dev community call with engineering teams from across the ecosystem, here's what was discussed!
Some topics that may be discussed in the next call include @ShinobiSystems Timely Vote Credits proposal (https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/blob/master/docs/src/proposals/timely-vote-credits.md), @elusivprivacy new built-in cryptographic operations to accelerate ZK verification (for privacy tech), and feature activation coordination standards.
What are some alternatives?
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nft.storage - 😋 NFT.Storage Classic (classic.nft.storage) offers free decentralized storage and bandwidth for NFTs on IPFS and Filecoin. April 2024 Update: Existing NFT.Storage Classic account holders can add data through their Classic accounts. New account holders can transition to the new version at NFT.Storage that preserves data in Filecoin for a small fee.
solana-docker-mac-m1 - Docker config for Mac M1, to support development on Solana
moonworm - codegen for crypto degens and other ethereum smart contract toolkit for python
cardano-node - The core component that is used to participate in a Cardano decentralised blockchain.
go-ethereum - Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol
cosmos-sdk - :chains: A Framework for Building High Value Public Blockchains :sparkles:
rotki - A portfolio tracking, analytics, accounting and management application that protects your privacy
mx-chain-go - ⚡ The official implementation of the MultiversX blockchain protocol, written in golang.
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