As web3 becomes a well-used and lately very-abused word, glove keeps making strides towards realizing the spirit of distinguishing from user experiences that deceive their consumers. Foundationally, glove co-exists with the crypto ecosystem narratives, but builds agnostic to seasonal climate and waves of euphoria.
Glove is in direct competition with all closed SaaS solutions that capitalize on the inability of users to freely access crypto data, despite its redundant availability and its very nature of coming into existence through users themselves.
Throughout, the use of term "free" refers to free spirit as in FOSS, we go further from licensing of software, to freedom and liberty in entirety of purpose, which may be defined outside just "code"; Thereby, we also defy the "code is law" argument.
For ease of understanding, in relation to FOSS, glove can be defined as FOX: Free Open eXperience, making it a superset.
We believe that the all-inclusive community around ecosystem protocols should build on top of:
FOX infrastructure
FOX interfaces to the infrastructure
In context of p2p protocols powering the crypto ecosystem such as Ethereum, this means that beyond the nodes and raw on-chain data they create and consume, following should be open source, accessible openly and with ease, in public domain, and without gatekept or permissioned control of entities that have not devolved majority control to majority users:
Contract ABIs
Off-chain information about Contracts that concerns its users
And on top of this primitive data, following provisions should also be in primary control of users:
FOX tooling and infrastructure for composability of intelligence from all the above
Centrally hosted closed-source frontends may still serve as curation platforms and serve community mobilization but not become gatekeepers, as such their outlook claims to pioneering openness is despicable, and we'll always be vocally against such rampant lying.
We understand that it is difficult to monetize open-source frontends, and anyone's motivation to keep their frontend closed-source to profit from their effort in building it is justified, but not at the expense of permeating lies while leveraging and harboring weakness of consumers; Which we believe the founders end up doing even if they do not wish initially, as the growth bug and private investors push them for their ulterior motives, which are increasingly borderlining nasty politics.
With that being said, we bring to light our struggle over the past four months, and our present resolve that defines the technological avenues we are going to tap as we proceed on our mission.
Defining Spiritual UX: An experience that gives user the fundamental right to independently enable and enrich their own experience, and also the right to share their means without systemic prejudice.
Everything that enables the purpose is open-sourced and virally copyleft from the earliest of moments it is conceived.
Transparency is weighed in the same scale as User Experience
Users have fundamental right by virtue of humanity to have a spiritually clean experience
Users are given clear directions and appreciation to exercise their fundamental rights
We define spiritually clean experience as a UX that includes both: Functional UX and Spiritual UX in an equilibrium
After months of research, we are committed to building an improvement on existing solutions that focus on local-first software for achieving our desired functional UX.
There are very few of these that have overlap with our functional goals, and so we have to implement a lot of functionality, but thankfully even some existing solutions reduce required intellectual effort, especially since we are funded by air and dust, every bit of open technological capital helps, of course, only if it is actually open.
On this front, we are laying out an EVM data accounting library dubbed evmtx. This will be introduced in its own blog, but simply, when the most basic interfaces are implemented, it will functionally enable the 98% Freedom Glove, and time to UX release thence on, will be relatively minimal.
The first result will be a multi-client UX that allows linking to archive node of choice and deliver address data in a minimal, yet very useful way. Subsequently, further development will focus on building UX around smart contract intelligence.
Clearly the obvious challenge is the size of blockchains, which makes it difficult for everyone to run their own archive node and query without limitations. There has been much discussion on this, and there's apparent motivation from protocols to improve core mechanisms and increase accessibility. Practically, after realizing the resolve at that level, we are now working in-line with projects and teams that aim to reduce the barriers, regardless of whether they realize our existence or not.
The size of chain is absolutely no excuse for closing up developer tooling and social developer capital behind despicably closed software, while keeping the facade through one teenth of code open sourced and pretending to be "web3".
Beyond delivering the fundamental right of being able to extract information from archive nodes locally, we have to extend this right to people who can't run their own nodes, while still upholding transparency. This is two-pronged:
Delivering individual accounting
Delivering larger network intelligence
To truly manifest all-inclusive spiritual UX, we have to dabble into murky waters of supplementary p2p protocols. We are aggressively researching for and weighing marketplace mechanisms that do not turn the incentive network into a token-fest and destroy the integrity of the system, thereby degenerating community.
Once manifesting the above, we will achieve 80% Freedom Glove, where users can extract and engage into intelligence, without getting ripped off of their freedom and liberty. We call this peered trust, because the intelligence and means to generate it will be exchanged across the network.
It's very likely that more and more 80% Freedom Glove owners trade-in for 98% Freedom Glove as we harness a community and the network grows intellectually, and as such, it is an on-ramp to maximum liberty.
To learn more about % Freedom, visit glove.fyi