While MEM has always had a local function simulator and online IDE, our #1 most requested feature has been for a fully-fledged testnet that provides a production-like environment and bypasses the need to get functions whitelisted. That’s why we’ve just shipped a solution to make it even easier to build web3-ready serverless functions. The MEM Carbon Testnet is designed to provide developers with a robust and flexible environment for testing and deploying MEM functions. It’s now live and ready...

While MEM has always had a local function simulator and online IDE, our #1 most requested feature has been for a fully-fledged testnet that provides a production-like environment and bypasses the need to get functions whitelisted. That’s why we’ve just shipped a solution to make it even easier to build web3-ready serverless functions. The MEM Carbon Testnet is designed to provide developers with a robust and flexible environment for testing and deploying MEM functions. It’s now live and ready...

2023 has been a huge year for Decent Land Labs -- we launched ANS, released the MEM beta, and saw a number of exciting partnerships come to fruition that prove the power of permanent storage and chain agnosticism. Let’s wrap up the year and cover everything the Decent Land Labs team has been up to in Q4.HackerNoon launched DIDs powered by namespace.gg and MEMHackerNoon's 50,000+ contributors can now claim their HackerNoon handle as a permanent, portable DID. HackerNoon needed a web3 iden...

2023 has been a huge year for Decent Land Labs -- we launched ANS, released the MEM beta, and saw a number of exciting partnerships come to fruition that prove the power of permanent storage and chain agnosticism. Let’s wrap up the year and cover everything the Decent Land Labs team has been up to in Q4.HackerNoon launched DIDs powered by namespace.gg and MEMHackerNoon's 50,000+ contributors can now claim their HackerNoon handle as a permanent, portable DID. HackerNoon needed a web3 iden...

Smart contracts, despite being a groundbreaking technological innovation, have limitations that stem from their design and operational principles. One of the most significant constraints is their confinement to the specific blockchain they are deployed to. This imposes challenges on developers, restricting their ability to interact with the broader digital world, hindering the development of web2-like features, and effectively locking them into a single ecosystem. What is the solution to this...

Smart contracts, despite being a groundbreaking technological innovation, have limitations that stem from their design and operational principles. One of the most significant constraints is their confinement to the specific blockchain they are deployed to. This imposes challenges on developers, restricting their ability to interact with the broader digital world, hindering the development of web2-like features, and effectively locking them into a single ecosystem. What is the solution to this...

MotivationMany web3 dapps, products, and protocols initially aspire to be entirely decentralized, built with only onchain components. However, when they encounter scaling challenges, the incorporation of web2 elements becomes a compelling solution to enhance scalability and user experience (UX). Centralized web2 architecture has significant benefits for scalability, but can sacrifice the core tenets of what makes web3 so powerful.The problemWhen a project incorporates web2 elements into its t...

MotivationMany web3 dapps, products, and protocols initially aspire to be entirely decentralized, built with only onchain components. However, when they encounter scaling challenges, the incorporation of web2 elements becomes a compelling solution to enhance scalability and user experience (UX). Centralized web2 architecture has significant benefits for scalability, but can sacrifice the core tenets of what makes web3 so powerful.The problemWhen a project incorporates web2 elements into its t...

In this blog post, we’ll demonstrate you can leverage MEM instead of a PaaS to develop identical applications at zero cost. Instead of opting for a PaaS, MEM enables the development of applications that maintain equivalent scalability and core functionality without incurring expenses. For illustrative purposes, we will focus on Heroku from the range of PaaS options.Quick definitionsWhat is MEM? MEM is a decentralised serverless functions network used to deploy chain-agnostic smart contracts. ...

In this blog post, we’ll demonstrate you can leverage MEM instead of a PaaS to develop identical applications at zero cost. Instead of opting for a PaaS, MEM enables the development of applications that maintain equivalent scalability and core functionality without incurring expenses. For illustrative purposes, we will focus on Heroku from the range of PaaS options.Quick definitionsWhat is MEM? MEM is a decentralised serverless functions network used to deploy chain-agnostic smart contracts. ...

Akord is a collaborative file storage protocol with a strong emphasis on encryption and access control. It is used by individuals and businesses as an easy way to store and manage files on the Arweave permaweb. Beyond pre-defined access rules, Akord recently built a way for vault owners to provide decryption access to anyone holding a given NFT or token. As a web2.5 solution focused on UX and flexibility, Akord chose MEM to trustlessly bridge the gap between encrypted content on Arweave and t...

Akord is a collaborative file storage protocol with a strong emphasis on encryption and access control. It is used by individuals and businesses as an easy way to store and manage files on the Arweave permaweb. Beyond pre-defined access rules, Akord recently built a way for vault owners to provide decryption access to anyone holding a given NFT or token. As a web2.5 solution focused on UX and flexibility, Akord chose MEM to trustlessly bridge the gap between encrypted content on Arweave and t...

The UX and token support for namespace.gg – a chain-agnostic name service framework on MEM – just got so much better. It’s now possible for new namespace.gg deployments to accept minting fees directly in any ERC20 token! In this post we’ll introduce namespace.gg for the uninitiated, explain the differences between everPay and the direct ERC20 method for payment handling, and provide a full example for payment handling on Base.A quick re-introduction to namespace.ggOur community readers should...

The UX and token support for namespace.gg – a chain-agnostic name service framework on MEM – just got so much better. It’s now possible for new namespace.gg deployments to accept minting fees directly in any ERC20 token! In this post we’ll introduce namespace.gg for the uninitiated, explain the differences between everPay and the direct ERC20 method for payment handling, and provide a full example for payment handling on Base.A quick re-introduction to namespace.ggOur community readers should...

MEM is a serverless functions platform for web3 developers built on the Verifiable Atomic Computing Paradigm. With this paradigm, MEM applications benefit from a trustless record of interactions and state, enshrined onchain. But as is often the case when building developer-friendly tooling that offers web2-like UX, certain elements of the MEM stack rely on centralized endpoints and servers. Similar to RPCs in Ethereum land, while MEM data is eventually settled onchain it is broadcast to the n...

MEM is a serverless functions platform for web3 developers built on the Verifiable Atomic Computing Paradigm. With this paradigm, MEM applications benefit from a trustless record of interactions and state, enshrined onchain. But as is often the case when building developer-friendly tooling that offers web2-like UX, certain elements of the MEM stack rely on centralized endpoints and servers. Similar to RPCs in Ethereum land, while MEM data is eventually settled onchain it is broadcast to the n...

The rollup landscapeIn this article, we will provide an overview of off-chain scaling solutions designed to enhance the performance of the Ethereum network, known as rollups. We will focus on two prominent types of rollups, namely ZK rollups and optimistic rollups, along with our smart contract scaling paradigm known as VACP. Our discussion will encompass their primary utility, architectural frameworks, shared features, key differences, and the rationale behind the development of each solutio...

The rollup landscapeIn this article, we will provide an overview of off-chain scaling solutions designed to enhance the performance of the Ethereum network, known as rollups. We will focus on two prominent types of rollups, namely ZK rollups and optimistic rollups, along with our smart contract scaling paradigm known as VACP. Our discussion will encompass their primary utility, architectural frameworks, shared features, key differences, and the rationale behind the development of each solutio...

It’s only been 30 days since we launched Molecular Execution Machine, the web3-ready serverless functions platform, and we’ve been working to ship developer tooling to make it as easy as possible to write and test MEM contracts. The MEM developer toolkit consists of a CLI, API and local testnet. Instead of having developers jump through hoops to get started, we’ve rolled these all into a single web app that saves setup time and just drops you into a playground environment that you can use ins...

It’s only been 30 days since we launched Molecular Execution Machine, the web3-ready serverless functions platform, and we’ve been working to ship developer tooling to make it as easy as possible to write and test MEM contracts. The MEM developer toolkit consists of a CLI, API and local testnet. Instead of having developers jump through hoops to get started, we’ve rolled these all into a single web app that saves setup time and just drops you into a playground environment that you can use ins...

WeaveVM (WVM) is the first EVM-compatible protocol engineered to manage complex, large-scale data computation without the high gas fees typically associated with on-chain state storage on EVM chains. WVM is also the first EVM-compatible protocol that fully relies on Arweave for permanent storage, enabling atomicity of executable EVM bytecode and data of any size on the same ledger. On the principles of VACP, we are building the hyperscalable, lazy-evaluated EVM protocol to compute data at any...

WeaveVM (WVM) is the first EVM-compatible protocol engineered to manage complex, large-scale data computation without the high gas fees typically associated with on-chain state storage on EVM chains. WVM is also the first EVM-compatible protocol that fully relies on Arweave for permanent storage, enabling atomicity of executable EVM bytecode and data of any size on the same ledger. On the principles of VACP, we are building the hyperscalable, lazy-evaluated EVM protocol to compute data at any...

This quarter the Labs launched MEM, published the VACP thesis, and onboarded a host of great partners to namespace.gg. Read on for a full update on our progress and a hint of what’s to come in the future. 🔮MEM testnet and developer toolingThe Molecular Execution Machine (MEM) went live on testnet August 1st 2023 and has since released an array of developer tooling and educational resources. MEM is the web3-ready serverless functions platform that empowers developers to build lightning fast t...

This quarter the Labs launched MEM, published the VACP thesis, and onboarded a host of great partners to namespace.gg. Read on for a full update on our progress and a hint of what’s to come in the future. 🔮MEM testnet and developer toolingThe Molecular Execution Machine (MEM) went live on testnet August 1st 2023 and has since released an array of developer tooling and educational resources. MEM is the web3-ready serverless functions platform that empowers developers to build lightning fast t...