If you're a developer building decentralized applications, you have been faced with uncomfortable tradeoffs in choosing how to manage data. The two available options available have held back Web3 apps:Option 1 has been to use a smart contract (blockchain-based) backend and a static frontend. The downside of this option is that these apps are not... See more

Reference Architecture. The following diagram represents the proposed Web3 Reference Architecture. Conceptually, there are 3 distinct layers: Channels, Apps and Infrastructure & Utilities

The decentralization of clients within DeFi is somewhat straightforward given their relative simplicity — very little incentivization is necessary to get third parties to build independent and simple gateways (mostly in the form of websites) to such protocols. However, as web3 products and services become increasingly complex, with computationally... See more