Putting the "D" in DSNP by Wes Biggs
Presented by Wes Biggs
This talk is formatted to cover the following:
What is DSNP?
- Initial ideas, vision, and white paper
- "Protocols, Not Platforms"
- Protocols vs. Systems
Requirements for a DSNP system
- Three core problems
- Ethical
- Economical
- Scalable
- Three key criteria
- Decentralized
- Low Cost/Friction
- Business-Friendly
Technology evaluation and design decisions
- Alternatives considered
- Advantages and disadvantages of blockchain technology
- Proof of concept
- Learnings
- Frequency design
- Data-focused transactions
- Delegation
- Capacity
Conclusions and next steps
- Collaboration, adoption and innovation
- A beginning, not an ending
Wes Biggs
Speaker, Amplica Labs, Principal Software Architect
Wes Biggs
Speaker, Amplica Labs, Principal Software Architect
Wes (he/him) is a software architect working on DSNP (Distributed Social Networking Protocol, dsnp.org), the Frequency blockchain (frequency.xyz), and other parts of a fully decentralized, open source system to enable a free and equitable Social Web. Prior to his Web3 work, Wes was chief architect of Infospace Mobile, and CTO and founder of UK mobile advertising startup Adfonic as well as US mobile wallet marketing platform Popwallet, later a part of Snap, Inc. He is currently based in St. Louis, Missouri.