With DECS, the developer now has the ability to freely create end-to-end encrypted snippets in a decentralized fashion.

DECS – is brought to you by:

• KRISHNA Bommana @krrish1110

• Santosh Tirunagari @tsantosh7

• Venkata Chandrasekhar @chandu_nainala

• Krishna Pemmaraju @KrishnaPemmara2

In the creators own words: DECS is “Decentralised Encrypted Code Snippets organiser for developers.“

See DECS on Product Hunt too.

One of the main reasons the creators designed DECS is in the question/answer from the creators:

Why do we need another app when we have GitHub gists, Bitbucket and Gitlab snippets?

1) Security

2) Reliability

3) Decentralized and free

4) Accessibility

Some of the features of DECS include:

• own your data
• encrypted
• organized
• import and export
• embed
• free
• ux/ui
• share

We have not tried out DECS at this time but hope we can in the future. In any event, we hope to be able to update this post as new features are added to DECS.

Please find some additional screenshots from the website for DECS.

Some basic contact information for dPage:

• DECS website
• DECS on Product hunt

Other helpful links for more information on Blockstack include:

Blockstack – the new decentralized application platform and ecosystem for the decentralized/re-decentralized internet (dApp, dApps, blockchain, bitcoin, distributed and Web 3.0)

Blockstack’s Forum

@Blockstack

Blockstack Meetups

Note: If you do not have the Blockstack browser, please see this link (note – to enable the full functionality of any dApp built for the Blockstack ecosystem (e.g., building a new internet, a decentralized internet, distributed, blockchain, bitcoin, re-decentralizing the internet) you need to use the Blockstack browser).

For more on All things Developer^TM, see this link here. For more on the engineering meetings at Blockstack, please visit the forum. Blockstack makes the internet you use better!^TM

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With dPage, the ability to create simple public webpages that anyone – using Blockstack with a Blockstack i.d. – can access, browse and search has come to the decentralized internet within the Blockstack framework.  You can also create private encrypted webpages that you can control access to.

dPage – is brought to you by Tautvilas Mečinskas and Val Repsys (@vrepsys)

In the creators own words: “DPAGE is a webpage builder. You can build and publish simple webpages on Blockstack’s decentralized internet.”

See dPage on Product Hunt too.

Some of the features of dPage include:

• Web hosting on Blockstack – safely store and own your data/website
• Storage – use Blockstack’s Gaia or other storage options – website creator can choose
  
• Ease of Use
  
• You own all your data
• There is no vendor lock-in.
• All your private data is encrypted end-to-end
• Give your pages custom links
• Create public or private notes and snippets
• Embed social media

We have not tried out dPage at this time but hope we can in the future. In any event, we hope to be able to update this post as new features are added to dPage.

Please find some additional screenshots from the website for dPage.

Some basic contact information for dPage:

• dPage website
• dPage on Product Hunt
• dPage creator on Medium
• dPage creator on Twitter

Other helpful links for more information on Blockstack include:

Blockstack – the new decentralized application platform and ecosystem for the decentralized/re-decentralized internet (dApp, dApps, blockchain, bitcoin, distributed and Web 3.0)

Blockstack’s Forum

@Blockstack

Blockstack Meetups

Note: If you do not have the Blockstack browser, please see this link (note – to enable the full functionality of any dApp built for the Blockstack ecosystem (e.g., building a new internet, a decentralized internet, distributed, blockchain, bitcoin, re-decentralizing the internet) you need to use the Blockstack browser).

For more on All things Developer^TM, see this link here. For more on the engineering meetings at Blockstack, please visit the forum. Blockstack makes the internet you use better!^TM

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Recall – in beta – is brought to you by the creator of Travelstack

• https://bit.ly/2npdMhS  – another decentralized photo diary & social network for travelers.
  

In the creators own words: “Recall every day of your life. Safely store and access your photos using Blockstack. Your memories, your data.”

Some of the features/Recall include:

• Ownership – safely store and own your photos
• Storage – encrypted personal access (only by you)
• Ease of Use – speaks for itself
• Searchable – sort and search with ease
• Open Source – open source code
  

We have not tried out Recall – plan to and will update – it appears to be an open source alternative to @googlephotos.

Please find some screenshots from the website for Recall.

Some basic contact information for Recall:

• Recall Website
• Recall on Twitter
• Recall on Github
• Recall Roadmap

As we stated above, we have not given Recall a test run at this point.  When we do, or when Recall pushes out updates to its platform, we will try and provide some information on the same.  Decentralized photo sharing via Recall and Blockstack.

Other helpful links for more information on Blockstack include:

Blockstack – the new decentralized application platform and ecosystem for the decentralized/re-decentralized internet (dApp, dApps, blockchain, bitcoin, distributed and Web 3.0)

Blockstack’s Forum

@Blockstack

Blockstack Meetups

Note: If you do not have the Blockstack browser, please see this link (note – to enable the full functionality of any dApp built for the Blockstack ecosystem (e.g., building a new internet, a decentralized internet, distributed, blockchain, bitcoin, re-decentralizing the internet) you need to use the Blockstack browser).

For more on All things Developer^TM, see this link here.  For more on the engineering meetings at Blockstack, please visit the forum.  Blockstack makes the internet you use better!^TM

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In the Enigma’s own words:

“Enigma is using groundbreaking privacy technologies to build the first platform for scalable, end-to-end decentralized applications.”  

“A peer-to-peer network, enabling different parties to jointly store and run computations on data while keeping the data completely private.”

Key contact points for Enigma:

• Enigma
• @EnigmaMPC
• Enigma Protocol
• Enigma Test-net
• Enigma blog
• Research Papers
  • Decentralizing Privacy: Using Blockchain to Protect Personal Data
  • Enigma: Decentralized Computation Platform with Guaranteed Privacy
• Catalyst – Catalyst is the world’s leading platform for data-driven cryptoasset trading and investment.

Some of the key components that Enigma is offering:

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In the Oasis Labs own words:

Oasis is “building a new computing platform that enables cloud-scale, real-world applications with decentralized trust and privacy protection…”

Key contact points for Oasis Labs (including Keystone and RISC-V):

• Oasis Labs
• @OasisLabs
• Ekiden paper (blockchain platform)
• Keystone
• RISC-V
  • @risc_v

Some of the key components that Oasis Labs is offering:

• Privacy-preserving smart contracts (security and privacy)
• High-performance for real-world complex applications
• Rich programming framework support such as privacy-preserving machine learning within smart contracts on our platform

Oasis Labs new blockchain platform is called Ekiden.  Ekiden is a platform/system that can use any desired underlying blockchain system (permissioned or permissionless) with TEE (trusted execution environment) based execution (See Keystone and RISC-V below for enhanced open source options on TEE based execution and open source) which is anchored cryptographically.  Eikden also appears to be agnostic to consensus layer mechanics (only need blockchain compute nodes) and can scale consensus and compute nodes independently based on the need (performance & security).

As touched on above, Oasis Labs has structured its platform so it is not locked into the use of proprietary hardware (e.g., TEE like Intel SGX).  Apparently, Oasis Labs Ekiden platform is exploring some open source projects to use in its product (the trusted hardware and attestation aspects e.g. trusted execution environment hardware like Intel SGX).  The open source projects mentioned in the Ekiden platform and most likely might be available to use with Ekiden are called Keystone and RISC-V.  

Keystone is an open-source project for building trusted execution environments (TEE) with secure hardware enclaves, based on the RISC-V architecture. Our goal is to build a secure and trustworthy open-source secure hardware enclave, accessible to everyone in industry and academia.

RISC-V is an open instruction set architecture (ISA) based on established reduced instruction set computing (RISC) principles.

In other words, instead of only being able to use Intel SGX (tee architecture), Oasis Labs does state that any comparable TEE with attestation capabilities could be used e.g., Keystone, RISC-V.  By using Open source projects and potential incorporation into Ekiden, Oasis Labs has opened the door to a more robust and resilient architecture for its blockchain stack.

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As we mentioned in an earlier post here, the Blockstack Community Rewards Program is a way to reward community members for the value they bring to the ecosystem.

It looks like the ways to contribute has grown and the list of contributors and rewards has grown too.  Let’s take a look at what is new to the world of Blockstack contributions and stacks rewards.

For example, it appears that Blockstack PBC has upped the ante and is offering a $1,000,000 in grants of $100,000 each to ten teams to create a new Social Network.  Blockstack PBC puts it this way:

“No single entity should have unilateral say over how 2 billion people connect and communicate. The current centralized model of social networking has created a stranglehold on our collective consciousness, communication, and friend network. But we’re at an inflection point — a moment where people can reclaim control of the way they network.”

Blockstack PBC will even award stacks to the person that pushes out a tweet or post about the same initiative – Request for a Social Network” –

“Sometimes the best founders can be hidden, that’s why we want your help in getting the message out to extraordinary founders looking to build decentralized social networks using Blockstack.  Click ahead to learn more!”

The initiative promoted by Blockstack PBC for the $1,000,000 grants for a new social network can be found here.

So, if you are up to the task or have the team up to the task, follow the links above and build the social network for the decentralized internet on Blockstack.

Some of the other tasks that one might be able to contribute to include feedback on tutorials, writing a blog post, signing up for Blockstack, unit testing, de-lint(ing), and many others.

Note: If you do not have the Blockstack browser, please see this link (note – to enable the full functionality of any namespace (name/domain name) or dApp built for the Blockstack ecosystem (e.g., building a new internet, a decentralized internet, re-decentralizing the internet, that is distributed via the blockchain, bitcoin), you must use the Blockstack browser).

Download the Blockstack Browser

For help on installing and using the Blockstack Browser, please visit this link Getting started with the Blockstack Browser.

For a more in depth look into the Blockstack Browser, please visit these links – Inside the Blockstack Browser and Blockstack Browser: It does that?

Resources re: Blockstack and dApps

• Blockstack
• @blockstack
  • @blockstackapps
• Developers
  • Introduction
    • • Papers
      • Videos
    • Tutorials
      • (e.g., todo and multi-player storage)
    • Installation
    • Github
      • Javascript
      • Core API
• Blog
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Blockstack Meetups
• Earn Rewards in Stacks – Community Contribution to Blockstack

Thanks again for visiting The Stack Cafe^TM and we look forward to hearing from you.

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Well, Blockstack is holding an event – Community Meetup – for Consensus 2018 event in New York City this week.  It appears that Team Blockstack will be ready to mingle and engage in conversation for all things blockstack and blockchain on Monday, May 14, 2018.  

The Blockstack Community Meetup event is a great opportunity to meet the people behind Blockstack and kickoff the week for Consensus 2018 in New York City.

A little bit about Blockstack from Blockstack:

Blockstack is a new internet for decentralized apps that you access through the Blockstack Browser. With Blockstack, there is a new world of apps that let you own your data and maintain your privacy, security and freedom.

For more on our posts about the Blockstack Browser, please visit this link here.

A little bit about Consensus 2018 from Consenus (Coindesk): 

CoinDesk is proud to present our 4th annual blockchain technology summit, May 14-16, 2018 at the New York Hilton Midtown. Consensus 2018 will feature 250+ speakers and 4,000+ attendees from the leading industry startups, investors, financial institutions, enterprise tech leaders, and academic and policy groups who are building the foundations of the blockchain and digital currency economy.

So, if you are interested in learning more about Consensus 2018, blockchain, digital economy, Blockstack and more… Go check out the Blockstack community meetup tomorrow at Houston Hall at 6:30 p.m.  Meet Team Blockstack and learn about the decentralized ecosystem being built by the same.

If you are in New York City this next week, and are interested in anything to do with blockchain, bitcoin, Blockstack or more, Consensus 2018 may be a good place to visit.  And, at a minimum, if you want to talk to the Team Blockstack, about Blockstack and what it is building, go to the meetup on Monday, May 14, 2018.

Other helpful links for more information on Blockstack include:

Blockstack – the new decentralized application platform and ecosystem for the decentralized/re-decentralized internet (dApp, dApps, blockchain, bitcoin, distributed and Web 3.0)

Blockstack’s Forum

@Blockstack

Blockstack community Meetup for Consensus 2018

Blockstack Meetups

Note: If you do not have the Blockstack browser, please see this link (note – to enable the full functionality of any dApp built for the Blockstack ecosystem (e.g., building a new internet, a decentralized internet, distributed, blockchain, bitcoin, decentralized, re-decentralizing the internet) you need to use the Blockstack browser).

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• atomic swaps
• support for light clients
• novel mining mechanism
• Application rewards  to application developers
• User-rewards
• Investors
• Protocol developers
• other

For a more definitive view/review/explanation of the stacks token, please visit this link here

A step forward for Blockstack and the ecosystem in general.  Go check it out and let Blockstack know if you run into any issues here or here.

Other helpful links for more information on Blockstack include:

Blockstack – the new decentralized application platform and ecosystem for the decentralized/re-decentralized internet (dApp, dApps, blockchain, bitcoin, distributed and Web 3.0)

Blockstack’s Forum

• Evangelists Toolkit

@Blockstack

Blockstack Meetups

Blockstack Community, Evangelist and …

Note: If you do not have the Blockstack browser, please see this link (note – to enable the full functionality of any dApp (decentralized application) built for the Blockstack ecosystem (e.g., decentralized, building a new internet, a decentralized internet, distributed, blockchain, re-decentralizing the internet, bitcoin) you need to use the Blockstack browser).

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The entire process is deemed to be fully transparent, from raising funds, expenses, reimbursements to other spending….  It looks like a neat open source crowdfunding platform for associations. 

We will try and do a quick overview of open collective for you.

With open collective, the developers put forth an open source platform to help open source projects that have created open collectives to raise money and share their expenses in a transparent way.

open collective further describes itself in these words:

“OpenCollective enables groups to quickly set up a collective, raise funds and manage them transparently.

We want all those seeds to have a chance to grow, to bring their ideas to life. We believe everyone should have the tools to create the organizations of tomorrow. And we are dedicating ourselves to making that happen!”

Sounds great, and it is open source and transparent.

And, it appears to help solve the problem of raising resources to fund new ideas whether the group is small or large.  This type of project may blend in well with other open source projects e.g. blockstack.(or dApps on top of blockstack e.g. Souq)

A rundown – on how open collective works – from one of the developers can be found at this link here and here.

Below, we provide some screenshots and links for learning more about open collective. We hope you find this useful.

open collective

• A new form of association, transparent by design

open collective

• crowdfund and then make sure the finances (funding,expenses,reimbursements,spending…) are open for all to see (transparency)
  

open collective

• Own your data
  • export all your backers with their e-mail address at any time

open collective

• Show your backers

open collective

• an example of an association using open collective is Women Who Code
  • “We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to inspiring women to excel in technology careers. 137,000 members strong in 60 cities spanning 20 countries & counting”
  • Women Who code
  • @WomenWhoCode

We have not tried out open collective but will give it a go at some point (when we do we will try and provide a brief overview). But, it looks like a great tool to help with the transparent crowdfunding space. In the meantime, go give it a try and give us and/or open collective some feedback.

In addition, open collective is open source.  We like that and try to promote open source. See our post on open source here.

And, perhaps it may be a tool that can be used on the Blockstack ecosystem (e.g. a decentralized voluntary association crowdfunding – or perhaps it may be a good chance for collaboration with another dApp that does the same type of thing for voluntary associations and crowdfunding – cryptocracy/souq).

If you have not tried out Blockstack, you can find some links below to help you get started in the decentralized internet platform for identity, security and storage. Gotta have the Blockstack browser –

Note: If you do not have the Blockstack browser, please see this link (note – to enable the full functionality of any dApp built for the Blockstack ecosystem (e.g., decentralized, building a new internet, a decentralized internet, re-decentralizing the internet) you need to use the Blockstack browser).

Remember, per Blockstack – all information or data you create or store using a dApp via your Blockstack Browser is encrypted and securely stored in a decentralized manner. And, it is only accessible by you and only those you give access to your data and information.

Other helpful links for more information on Blockstack include:

Blockstack – the new decentralized application platform and ecosystem for the decentralized/re-decentralized internet (dApp, dApps, blockchain, bitcoin, distributed and Web 3.0)

Blockstack’s Forum

@Blockstack

For more on All things Developer^TM, see this link here. For more on the engineering meeting at Blockstack, please visit the forum. Blockstack makes the internet you use better!^TM

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We recently heard that Team Graphite – the dApp that can be used on the Blockstack ecosystem (which provides identity authentication, security, encryption and storage options etc.) to create documents sheets, conversations and more without giving up privacy – just announced a job posting on the blockstack forum – Paid Contracting Job For Graphite.

It appears that Team Graphite needs an experienced developer to help build and promote Graphite. Team Graphite plans on paying a total of $4,000.00 over a two month period during the Summer of 2018.

Graphite Job Announcement

Below, you will find Graphite’s announcement for a paid contracting job over the summer months of 2018.  Graphite is looking for someone with experience in React, WebRTC and hopefully Blockstack.  For more on Graphite, see here, here, here and here.

Great news for the Graphite dApp and Team Graphite.  If team Graphite needs help, one would hope and assume that the dApp built on top of Blockstack is gaining traction and users.  Great job Team Graphite.  To find out more from Team Graphite, please e-mail Team Graphite at justin@graphitedocs.com.

For more on the background tools needed for the Team Graphite Contracting Job:

• React
  • twitter
• WebRTC
  • twitter
• Blockstack
  • tutorials
  • Javascript libraries
    • javascript
    • twitter

Note: If you do not have the Blockstack browser, please see this link (note – to enable the full functionality of any dApp (including Graphite) built for the Blockstack ecosystem (e.g., building a new internet, a decentralized internet, re-decentralizing the internet) you need to use the Blockstack browser). And, if you need more information on Graphite and how to use it, please visit this link.

Remember, per Blockstack – all information or data you create or store using a dApp via your Blockstack Browser is encrypted and securely stored in a decentralized manner. And, it is only accessible by you and only those you give access to your data and information.

Other helpful links for more information on Blockstack include:

Blockstack – the new decentralized application platform and ecosystem for the decentralized/re-decentralized internet (dApp, dApps, blockchain, bitcoin, distributed and Web 3.0)

Blockstack’s Forum

@Blockstack

Team Graphite

Note: If you do not have the Blockstack browser, please see this link (note – to enable the full functionality of any dApp (decentralized application) built for the Blockstack ecosystem (e.g., decentralized, building a new internet, a decentralized internet, distributed, blockchain, re-decentralizing the internet, bitcoin) you need to use the Blockstack browser).

For more on All things Developer^TM on blockstack, see this link here. For more on the engineering meeting at Blockstack, please visit the forum. Blockstack makes the internet you use better!^TM

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