On October 13th-16th, Mattereum hosted the first Internet of Agreements™ (IoA) conference at the UK Government’s Digital Catapult in London. IoA™ is a vision for global supply chains and logistics…
In our last post, we talked about what Proof of Work was and showed you how to code your own Proof of Work blockchain. The 2 most popular cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and Ethereum are both based on…
Holochain is a framework for writing fully distributed peer-to-peer applications. It is not based on blockchain technology. Nor is Holochain a single platform like Ethereum. It is rather like a decentralized Ruby on Rails, a toolkit that produces stand-alone programs but for serverless high-profile applications. Different from blockchain alternatives and as shown in this benchmark (based on the Holochain prototype), it actually works and performs better than Ethereum by several orders of magnitude.
Holo is a bridge to transition from today’s centralized infrastruture to greater decentralization and autonomy with Holochain’s application platform. Not only is Holo a Holochain app, Holo supports and extends other Holochain apps.
Archive.org is testing a decentralized version, or DWeb version, of their web site that allows their content to be delivered over peer-to-peer connections with different hosts sharing portions of or the same content.