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been on a kick lately reading some of the latest updates on some tech i’ve been following for a bit. here’s a thread with some links to cool articles
https://blog.holochain.org/economy-as-ecosystem/
holochain is an incredibly interesting platform for distributed tech, mostly because of their paradigm shift from “data-centric” to “agent-centric” in how their apps are programmed.
https://hREA.io is using that platform to model economies/supply chains/ecosystems. very cool stuff.
also check out https://valueflo.ws, which is the ontology/vocabulary that hREA is based on. valueflows wants us to be able to talk about modeling economies in specific terms, and defined a glossary for us to use. hREA is one implementation of that
been reading about zero knowledge proofs too. here’s a few articles i found helpful for getting a better understanding of them:
https://hackernoon.com/the-magic-of-zero-knowledge-proofs-through-the-source-code-of-tornado-cash?ref=hackernoon.com this one explains how zk proofs are used in tornado cash, with some code examples.
zk-SNARKS require a trusted setup, where some type of key is created. it happens in steps, each step is someone running some computation. that generates “toxic data/waste” that, if someone had all the waste from all the steps, they could break the cryptography. so as long as one step along the way tosses that data, we’re good.
https://medium.com/coinmonks/announcing-the-perpetual-powers-of-tau-ceremony-to-benefit-all-zk-snark-projects-c3da86af8377
(hate medium for their limit but) apparently there’s a group running a perpetual ceremony, eg anyone can add a step, and anyone can use the latest result of the ceremony. pretty neat.
also wild that, because they want to support lots of use cases, computation for a single step takes over 24hrs on a fast computer, and requires nearly a hundred gigs of network transfer? wild
also, back on the #holochain thread, https://acorn.software/ is a project management app built on holochain. think jira, except no central servers.
this is particularly cool to me, since the app itself is all in one bundle, relatively small, and works seamlessly. i haven’t gotten to try it out since i haven’t been on any projects using it, but very cool regardless :)