Building decentralized web 3.0

How Ethereum Could Tear Up the Web?

Given the state of our 25-year-old network and all the problems inherited from the design of legacy systems in the 1970s, we must stop and take inventory of those fundamentally broken components that would provide a significant return on development investment. That this concern intersects with security, privacy, and resistance to censorship should be painfully obvious An all-out attack on the Internet’s infrastructure is already underway. As Internet users, we have a shared duty to explore, exploit, and implement new technologies that benefit creators, not oppressors.

While cryptography first allowed us to secure our messages from prying eyes, it is increasingly being used in more abstract ways such as the secure movement of digital value via cryptocurrencies. If PGP is the first major iteration of implemented cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin is the second, then I expect that interacting and integrating cryptocurrencies into the fabric of the decentralized web will be the third improved implementation, taking root and thriving in popularity.

Web services explosion

Taking a look at the brief history of the Web, most people agree that Web 1.0 was embodied by CGI scripts that generated form content on the server and delivered it to the client in final form. This was a clear model of homocentrism, however, and this basic form of interaction was a significant improvement over the basic publish-and-read format that made up much of Internet content at the time. Imagine having to reload the entire front page of Digg every time you wanted to click on something:

Digg in 2006, a prolific example of “Web 2.0” interactivity that traditional CGI scripts don’t provide

As browser technology advances, so does experimentation Ajax Calls are initiated, allowing us to perform actions asynchronously without having to reload the entire page. Finally, you can vote without submitting an HTML form and reloading everything. This movement to separate content from presentation – with the help of CSS – pushed the web forward.

Today we have technologies like AngularJS And HumanJS Which asks the designer to create a client template that contains specific data holes to be filled by some backend. Although these frameworks facilitate some of the programming glue for smooth and straightforward updates, they also push the developer to work in a certain way. But this is only a moderate step towards Web 2.5.

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True Web 3.0 has not yet begun, but it may obliterate the idea of ​​separating content from presentation by removing the need for servers at all. Let’s take a look at some of the core technologies that the Ethereum project aims to offer:

• shrinkage: decentralized logic
• swarm:Decentralized storage
• Whisper: Decentralized messages

Interaction including Ethereum contracts, Swarm storage, and Whisper communications

Technologies like Swarm can serve as the underlying infrastructure for static hosting, eliminating the need to distribute and cache specific content. because “Decentralized drop box“Discussed with such frequency, expect HTTP-like links or services to be built on top of this type of large binary data storage, making integration with Decentralized Web 3.0 much simpler. This effort will also allow for the replacement of typical content delivery networks (CDN) with distributed hash table (DHT) refers to the blob file, just as BitTorrent does. Due to the flexibility offered by Ethereum contracts, the content access model can be creator-paying, reader-paying, or some hybrid system.

So we’ve just replaced the need to have caches, reverse proxies, CDNs, load balancers, and the like to deliver consistent content to users. Another way Etheruem could impact this traditional infrastructure is by replacing business logic application layers with contracts on the blockchain. Ethereum contracts have traditionally been developed in a variety of web-friendly languages ​​such as Perl, PHP, Python, ASP, C#, and Ruby, and run in a fully scannable virtual machine that encourages simplicity and reusability. Business analysts and project managers may find this code transparency refreshing, especially since the same code can be written Serpent (Python-like language), LLL (Lisp-like language), XML (a nightmare), or even in visual block form!

Visual editor for Ethereum contract code

How can all this be possible? Take a look at the latest Ethereum Proof of Concept 6 JavaScript Linkswe see that a sprinkle of JavaScript is all that is needed to monitor account balance on the decentralized web:

<div>You have <span id="ether">?</span>.</div>
<script>
eth.watch({altered: eth.secretToAddress(eth.key)}).changed(function() {
document.getElementById("ether").innerText = eth.toDecimal(eth.balanceAt(eth.secretToAddress(eth.key)))
});
</script>

Since the Ethereum protocol also acts as a large, distributed keystore (happy note, NoSQL), user accounts, credentials and reputation can eventually be migrated on the blockchain with the help of the Whisper communication protocol. In this way, Ethereum paves the way for a complete fork of traditional infrastructure as we know it. No more complex schemes for highly available infrastructure. In the Ethereum ecosystem, even decentralized DNS is free.

Evaluating this context in a larger diagram of any systems infrastructure, it is clear that our current web is not as privacy-secure or censorship-resistant as we would like. Economies of scale have allowed individual organizations to offer enormous amounts of processing power and storage on the Internet at very low prices, thus increasing their market share to the point where they individually control large segments of Internet activity, often under the supervision of less-savvy governments. In the post-border era, where the Internet knows no borders, such jurisdiction has little or no meaning.

As the economics of the Ethereum ecosystem matures such that open contracts for storage develop at the lowest rate, a free market for content hosting could develop. Given the nature and dynamics of P2P applications, popular content will scale easily as the swarm participates, rather than suffering from the overload of isolated servers. The end result is that popular content is delivered fasterAnd not slower.

We’ve spent decades improving the protocols on which the Internet was first founded, but it’s time to recognize missed opportunities by constantly patching the old system rather than coordinating a new and improved one. The future will likely bring with it a transitional period between traditional and decentralized technologies, where applications live in a hybrid world and users are unaware of the turbulence. But they should be.

This shift will provide developers with the opportunity to build the next generation of decentralized, private, secure, and censorship-resistant platforms that return control to the creators and consumers of the next best idea. Anyone with a dream has the freedom to build on this new class of next-generation decentralized web services without owning a credit card or signing up for any accounts.

Although we are not asked or expected to do so, we must cherish and improve the very shared resources that some are willing to disturb, manipulate and control. Just as no single person fully understands the collective intelligence emerging on the Internet, neither should we expect any single entity to fully understand or maintain fully aligned motivations. Rather, we must rely on the Internet to solve Internet problems.

For this reason, blockchain technologies like Ethereum will allow for simplification and cost reductions not seen since the introduction of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). By expanding the idea beyond a simple web project, Ethereum hopes to show how completely autonomous decentralized organizations are (Decentralized autonomous organizations) can live entirely within cyberspace, eliminating not only the need for central servers, but also the need for trusted third parties, fulfilling the dreams of early Internet pioneers who envisioned an autonomous system A new home for the mind.