Innovation and Inclusion w/ Decentralized Applications

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1. Building a decentralized internet Fostering Innovation and Economic Inclusion with Decentralized Applications New Context Conference, November 2016
2. Building a decentralized internet About Me 1. Founding contributor, Blockstack 2. President Emeritus, Princeton Entrepreneurship Club 3. Inductee, Forbes 30 Under 30 4. Author, several popular cryptography libraries twitter: @ryaneshea
3. Building a decentralized internet The problems with the centralization of the internet 1. AnF-compeFFve behavior makes it hard to innovate 2. A few large companies make all the money 3. PlaJorms lock in users and developers 4. Data custodianship leads to massive breaches
4. Building a decentralized internet The benefits of decentralization 1. InnovaFon 2. Inclusion 3. Independence 4. InformaFon Security
5. Building a decentralized internet Decentralized applications offer a better way forward 1. Email 2. BitTorrent 3. Bitcoin
6. Email - 1962
7. BitTorrent - 2001
8. Bitcoin - 2009
9. Building a decentralized internet …but decentralized apps are hard to build 1. Complexity 2. Security 3. Scalability
10. Building a decentralized internet Blockstack makes building decentralized apps easy Without Blockstack With Blockstack Servers to deploy and maintain Server-less, just publish code Databases to set up and maintain Users bring their own cloud storage IdenFty management systems to build IdenFty naFvely built-in Payment systems to build out Payments naFvely built-in
11. Building a decentralized internet We solved key problems over 2+ years of PhD-level engineering Jan 16 Jul 16 Jul 15 Jan 15 Jul 14 Identity Identity Naming Identity Naming Identity Auth Naming Identity Auth Storage The core “kernel” has already been built and deployed
12. Building a decentralized internet Blockstack Core handles the complexity { Authentication Storage Identity Naming Blockchain App App App
13. Building a decentralized internet Our community has expertise in security, distributed systems, and UX
14. Building a decentralized internet Our tech has been thoroughly vetted Blockstack: A Global Naming and Storage System Secured by Blockchains
 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), June 2016 Bootstrapping Trust in Distributed Systems
 USENIX ;login: 2016 Extending ExisFng Blockchains with Virtualchain
 Distributed Cryptocurrencies and Consensus Ledgers (DCCL), July 2016
15. Blockstack is the largest non-financial blockchain protocol
16. Building a decentralized internet Growth of online developer community 0 350 700 1050 1400 06/29/15 07/13/15 07/27/15 08/10/15 08/24/15 09/07/15 09/21/15 10/05/15 10/19/15 11/02/15 11/16/15 11/30/15 12/14/15 01/03/16 01/17/16 01/31/16 02/14/16 02/28/16 03/13/16 03/27/16 04/10/16 04/24/16 05/08/16 05/22/16 06/05/16 06/19/16 07/03/16 07/17/16 07/31/16 08/14/16 08/28/16 Slack community members Join Blockstack Slack - chat.blockstack.org
17. Building a decentralized internet Growth of in person developer community 1,816 members 6 interested 14 Meetups 14 cities 7 countries
18. Building a decentralized internet Growth of in person developer community 0 300 600 900 1,200 March April May June July August 1,136 708 543 340 156 50 Meetup group members
19. Building a decentralized internet Value capture will move down the software stack TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP SOFTWARE PROVIDERS FACEBOOK, TWITTER, AMAZON, ETC. MINERS, EXCHANGES DECENTRALIZED APPLICATIONS BITCOIN, ETHEREUM, AND OTHER PROTOCOL TOKENS More info: https://www.usv.com/blog/fat-protocols - 0% - 100% 0% - 100% -
20. Building a decentralized internet iOS and Android made native apps easy (UI components live on your device) Blockstack makes server-less apps easy (UI components & data live on your device) Blockstack App Store
21. Blockstack Core
22. Blockstack CLI
23. Onename (a Blockstack registrar)
24. Blockstack Name Explorer
25. Blockstack Browser
26. You should get a response like this:
27. Building a decentralized internet
28. Single Page Web Application
29. Example App: Secure Software Distribution
30. Example App: Publicly Audit-able Voting
31. Example App: Crowdfunded Investigative Reporting
32. Building a decentralized internet Thank you