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From YouTube: Dappnet - decentralized frontends, for real - Liam Zebedee

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Explain how we store files on IPFS and how this can be used to make IPFS light clients.

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Hello, everyone, my name, is Liam I've, come all the way from Australia um I'm, just going to jump straight into the demo. um This is going to be a very quick talk and uh I'd like encourage anyone to like ask questions whatever um so.

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This is a dapnet desktop app, so it's like a one-click install um and you can see a bunch of these apps here.

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um You click and open the app, and um this is just opening in Chrome and what it does is it it loads it from ipfs. So there's a local ipfs node and complete re-implementation of an ens Gateway running locally on the client. So you can see that loaded in about two seconds um and what's interesting about this- is that this is actually completely built into Chrome and Firefox um Native experience, so you can see there's a domain up here.

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um This is uh natively resolved as part of the browser stack to an ipfs hash um and it loads it completely on the client, um it's https everywhere. So it's secure. There aren't any sort of mixed content warnings with the browser and it just works, so we can load tornado. We can load. Another dap, for example like uniswap.

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um We can even go to uh to blogs like vitalik has a Blog that he hosts on um on ipfs um and yeah. That is, uh that is just a simple demo of what I'm building right. Now there we go.

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You can also see uh the ipfs hash, so we've got like some metadata here which will take us to a local Gateway. If you want to introspect things, this is the hash for vitalik's website.

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So yeah, that's dapnet, um it's uh it's! It's pretty much like the most beautiful usable way to access the permanent web um right now and I built this, because I mean tornado cash was censored and we anyone can take C's sensor front end right now, um and this is just this is a way of accessing that.

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So how are we doing? This is my very last minute talk is. um Are there any questions so far? No, do you want to go into the technicals? Okay? Let's do it um so uh we're just gonna restart the dab. We can see what's happening in the background here proof of work.

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um So basically there are a couple things going on um so we're starting like an ipfs Damon. This is cubes uh Cubo um ipfs Damon is pre-configured to be paired with like uh major gateways, so we've got cloudflare Fleek a couple of others.

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um The the there are multiple layers of caching involved, so um.net itself actually supports a couple different ways of resolving domains. um It supports ipns. um It supports the DNS link, addressing system for ens and um I. Think we can go into.

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Yeah yeah, so um there was a lot that went into basically building this to make it the most fluid ux possible. um The we all know the browser environment um isn't really suited to running a node right.

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um Ipfs companion is like a great piece of software, but requires people to install their own node, so um dapnet is composed of both a desktop app and an extension. um The extension basically routes. You know through this sort of sox5 proxy hits up the desktop app after which it gets to a Gateway.

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um Now the Gateway, the Gateway, is really useful right. um It resolves ens content hashes from a variety of different systems. So uniswap is one of these systems that you know it uses DNS link, which was a little bit of a hassle to get around um it streams the content from a local ipfs node.

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um It was started in the background completely transparent to the user, um and the dream is actually having a local ipfs node on every device, as well as a light client for ethereum and um and the last thing is, it actually provides these https connections, um so it installs like a sort of local route of Trust on the computer in order to be able to generate certificates on demand, which means that people building web apps um don't have to really change.

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Anything um websockets is something that a lot of people use and one of the things with the browser environment is that you, you can't. You can't use websockets over HTTP, um so yeah. So there are a couple different things at play here: um yeah.

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So um I think I went over the node, the Gateway https everywhere. um There's a couple things that I'm I'm excited about to build next, um so the first one is um accelerating ipfs. So the end goal here is actually to be able to deploy front ends.

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um Go to like you know, diversell.eth, for example, and in three clicks be able to one buy an ens domain, two buy ipfs content hosting on demand and completely on chain, and then three just set it up and let's go um one of the one of the things with ipfs right now um is it's: is it's a bit slow um and there's a variety of clients and people doing different things and I think there is like a lot of different design space here, which I obviously won't get into.

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um But what personally excites me actually is um the idea of actually buying up internet backbones and putting ipfs on them. um There's a there's, a unspoken truth that um cloud services um are extortionate um in terms of bandwidth cost.

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um It actually costs, like maybe 10, to like 50 x, more to buy bandwidth and upload download over AWS and Google Cloud than it does to actually use a real, uh a backbone itself. um So for ten thousand dollars a month, you can uh rent sort of a backbone in America, Hurricane Electric.

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um You get really fast speeds kind of like a CDN you're at the edge, and um not just that, but you're actually able to push a lot of data down the pipe um which is really important for accelerating a transition. In short, like.

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Jacob from Zora put out this tweet like a couple years ago when um uniswap first came out um and it was kind of present at the time- and it said something like uniswap coinbase um in future will just be another front end that plugs into the uniswap capital Network um and, in my opinion, ipfs is, is actually kind of similar I think that ipfs, you know, content, addressable, routing, I, think in future you know, versel will be a system built that just plugs into this.

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This hypermedia protocol this new way of Distributing content, that's more robust and more sane and better, for you know better for censorship and capture resistance. um I, don't want to take up too much more of your time. I know. Lunch is on um I got a couple, other things I'm working on.

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um If anyone wants to come chat, I'd love to chat, um it's uh it's a pleasure to be here. My name is Liam and um if you'd like to uh learn a bit more about dapnet we've got dapnet.energy, um which is a big Twitter thread uh describing all the system. um Also my name on Twitter. You can find that on the thread and um and yeah you know it's great to be here thanks guys.