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Vitalik Buterin
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The skiff situation is a good reminder of why decentralized ecosystems are so valuable. Challenge question @dwr @v : how far along is Farcaster in this regard? If hypothetically your team got acquihired by Facebook (or Tencent, or...) tomorrow, how well would the ecosystem be able to keep going?
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@v
assume malicious acquirer. for ecosystem to survive intact would need: 1. decentralized contracts 2. decentralized hub network 3. easy to use client with 80% warpcast parity 4. good steward for protocol governance.
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
decentralized contracts i'd give us a 4/5. would be able to decentralize control in a day or two. problem is (4) or finding the right stewards
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
decentralized hub network i'd give us a 5/5. works very well right now, several hundred hubs running in production. easy to understand codebase etc.
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Waku
@waku
Waku maybe able to help with decentralized hub network. We have defined a suite of modular protocols to enable censorship-resistant and private comms. This includes solving problems at both the peer discovery and message routing layers, maximizing decentralization for those both to enable actual censorship resistance.
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@waku
At the last bankless podcast @dwr participated to, he mentioned that sharding would be a potential solution to enable scaling the hub network. Waku defines sharding strategies on top of existing protocols, some being used by Farcaster: discv5, libp2p-gossipsub, ENR.
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@waku
Waku protocol definitions are CC0 and the code is MIT/Apache so you are free to have a look and see if it would help. We would be more than happy to assist.
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@waku
We also intend to further decentralize bootstrapping. We are currently using DNS Discovery, as Ethereum does, but it has some limitations that we are looking to overcome and would be happy to collaborate there too.
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@waku
We also understand that you are looking at decentralizing Warpcast's Direct Cast system down the line. Once you are ready, we will be more happy to assist. Waku is designed to enable any kind of ephemeral communication, especially chat messages, in a censorship resistant and private manner.
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@waku
As previously highlighted, Waku is modular meaning you could bring Warpcast's encryption scheme over Waku and only Waku for the message routing layer.
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@waku
Finally, while we understand this is not a priority for Warpcast, Waku also enables resource-restricted devices (mobile, browser) to access the peer-to-peer network, which can enable moving censorship-resistant and privacy properties from dev level to user level.
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