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Big Web companies tend to expand their platforms and monopolize information by locking users into proprietary interfaces. Cryptonetworks, on the other hand, tend to provide single services, and can’t “own” the interface because they don’t control the data. Specialization helps because the more decen
This is an update to The Blockchain Application Stack (2014) and Fat Protocols (2016). When I started thinking about the architecture of blockchain applications back in 2014, I described it as a hierarchical “stack” of functionality. That first iteration described a blockchain at the base with “overlay networks” that provide specific decentralized services on top, forming “shared” protocol and data layers. Above them, independent applications would consume those protocols and redistribute their services to users: The Blockchain Application Stack (2014) I predicted this architecture would domin
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