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Stateless Infrastructure Source Stateless Infra from Polynya What is Stateless Infrastructure For this blog: stick with blockchain = any chain achieving real-time strict global consensus (including rollups); stateless infra = not a chain, no consensus (or loose consensus), but decentralized complements that interact with the above mentioned blockchains. Current statement: in blockchain world, we have been attuned to honest-majority assumptions, trust running as many nodes as possible is import outside of blockchains, things operate with an honest-minority assumption, as long as there’s one honest party Servers - This one’s obvious and a well-known quantity....

Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks Source: Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks by Varun from Farcaster. Challenging problems with decentralizing social networks → Scaling networks are a series of messages passed between users through a centralized server. enable users to choose any server they like to store their messages and sign each one with a public/private key public key become a unique identifier for the user, and messages are tamper-proof Alice {write message} → facetok server ⟷ {read message} Bob Alice {write message} → Alice’s server → {read message} Bob → {write message} Bob’s server...