Hi, i missed a month, but i am back. Current thinking is to do this weekly. Shorter but more frequent and then post on decentralized social media. Who helps me to get whitelisted for a lens handle?
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Identity
Extensive blogpost about Ceramic/3ID experience designing and working with DID’s.
New documentation for access control (en/decryption with Lit keys) and Lit actions (oracles based on Lit keys)
SignInWithEthereum is extended into SSX to include DAO logins (access for delegated members) and a frontend to monitor SIWE logins to your application.
Using Gitcoin Passport on Ceramic as a proof-of-personhood reputation system.
Content
Lens uses Lit to facilitate gated publications. Content is decrypted by a Lit key when conditions are met line DAO membership, NFT ownership, follow relation on Lens, etc …
Orb works with a Lens module called ‘degreesOfSeparationReferenceModule’, which can extend capabilities to mirror or comment across the follower graph. i.e. friends only. Or friends from friends. Or friends from friends from friends, etc …
Compute
Fluence updates: AquaVM is convergent (conflict free resolution of parallel streams) and new docker images
Bacalhau project report with a swagger api and updated roadmap
Transport / coordination
Decentralized blockchain access provider Pocket sees an annual growth from 50 million relays per day to well over 1 billion. Currently 26,919 active nodes across more than 20 different countries provide access to 50 supported chains.
LeanPocket makes it much more efficient to run multiple Pocket nodes on the same server, sharing state and resources
Storage
Filecoin Network v17 Shark Upgrade allows actors and smart contracts (for example a data dao) to sign storage deals. It also opens the field to actors and smart contracts to broker deals between clients and providers. I.e. marketplaces can be programmed. Lastly, fees accrued by the provider can be send to a separate beneficiary address that could tap into de-fi.
Kubo v17 with security related updates and .tar support.
Chromium allows for an ipfs:// redirect to a gateway of choice. Interestingly, This does not only concern IPFS. The Chromium codebase has been refactored to support redirects to non-HTTP addresses in general.