Fluence Network-The Rundown

A. Nicole
7 min readMar 7, 2022

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Personal information should be an asset, not a liability.

Fluence is basically the solution to architecture limitations within the web development standards.

External API integration and application interconnectivity is difficult due to the way applications are built independently and separated into public or private sections. .Fluence’s ultimate goal is to unify applications internal and externally and to streamline the distribution of execution steps machine-to-machine, peer-to-peer, and vendor-to-vender. In effort to accomplish their goal a primary composition tool for converting complex distributed systems into language primitives was created. It is called Aquamarine.

Complex backends are holding innovation hostage! Fluence’s Aquamarine language standardizes the coordination of distributed systems, and reduces application development to a few scripts managing remote services. Private microservices and public APIs become integrated seamlessly once they are “speaking” the same language. Security is left for the Fluence protocol.

A new class of open applications that can build on top of one another and share data and users is being presented in the Fluence protocol.Using the same services as Aquamarine scripts, Fluence node operators are able to host these applications.They are easier to build, can evolve quickly with combined effort, they can match blockchain technology’s pace while surpassing the scalability ceiling. .

Fluence can benefit existing internet services by providing a new, simple design with improved reliability, security, and scalability. The entire integration layer, similar to open applications, can be created with the unified protocol between Web APIs, microservices, and devices. These integrations make development easier and broaden the potential customer base.

You won’t find a Web3 Project offering more potential, security, room for expansion, and ease of use than the Fluence Network. Using Fluence’s peer to peer development stack, essentially, cuts out the proverbial middleman (or in other words, proprietary cloud providers or centralized APIs). Developers can create and program p2p applications, workflows, and compose services with decentralized assurance in the privacy and security regarding a user’s personal data. The best part is Fluence is 100% open source, and therefore, completely free for anybody to use.

Fluence is unique in that it uses its own programming language and runtimes, the AquaMarine stack. The programming language and runtime environment, Aqua, was designed specifically for a peer-to-peer system.

Marine, is a WebAssembly runtime environment that favors the Wasm module based on the entity component system pattern or plugin architecture. It also uses a shared-nothing linking scheme implemented by the Wasm IT, or Interface Types. Marine hosts the Aqua VM and executes hosted Wasm services using Fluence nodes. Fluence eliminated the need to use limited servers by connecting user devices directly. The peer-to-peer setup is done from the separation of the Aqua and Marine applications. Now, instead of paying a cloud hosting service, cryptocurrency is used to pay the node operator for serving as hosts.

Why do we need this different method of hosting and deeper decentralization?

The entire world has practically “gone digital”. Soon we will rely on technology for everything. The more we, as a people, rely on the virtual world which is mostly centrally structured, exclusive, and unsecure; the more the need for these decentralized creation platforms will become apparent.

If Edward Snowden taught us anything about the unbelievable misuse of digital data and privacy, it is that our government draws no line. In their eyes nothing is too far when it comes to the loosely applied concept of terrorism.

Let’s compare some other hosting options

  • Cloud-based platforms may provide a valued service, but at what cost? You end up with a bill for the services that always seem to end up higher than when you initially signed up. Unfortunately, you find yourself now trapped, unable to make a transition to a better option.
  • Blockchain technology uses a system of ledgers to store data collectively. The fully distributed data is maintained and kept by ledgers each holding the other accountable for the information stored within. It is this aspect that enables transactions on the blockchain to be protected from fraudulent attempts to cheat the system. .
  • Fluence is, in a way, operating on a lower, more basic protocol level. It doesn’t have a network consensus or ledgers maintaining it. It operates off peers and their relationships, and in turn it provides developers a much wider range of flexibility and compatibility.

Next generation computing will be scalable, permission-less, and composable. Fluence has achieved all of these.

Permission-less Protocol means that it is all inclusive. Anybody could connect to the network, run a node, deploy services and applications. No permissions required.

Pluggable Data means that Fluence is very compatible with other systems

Scalability Applications will be able to create as many subnetworks in the global Fluence network as they need, so the global capacity is estimated in billions of peers.

Computation Verifiability The security model of Fluence allows applications to execute on nodes that are previously known and trusted only.. All execution is cryptographically signed, so clients can always check if the computation was performed by an eligible peer.

Flexible Consensus if trustless consensus is needed, it is available, optionally. .The freedom to decide when to use this feature gives apps a combination of blockchain-level security with a greater scale of trusted computations..

Fluence is extremely versatile and widely usable.

P2P Applications made using Fluence offer unseen strength and censorship- resistance.

The Fluence stack can be used to create p2p apps like:

  • Messenger Apps
  • Social Networks
  • Audio and Video Calls
  • Streaming

Decentralized Protocols within Fluence are made super easy to build and combine network protocols of any complexity, topology, and scale. Examples include:

  • Messaging protocols
  • Consensus engines
  • Decentralized governance
  • File sharing
  • Multi-party computation
  • Blockchain oracles

Community Run Applications can be deployed and fully run without a central admin.

  • DAO-managed applications
  • Social media platforms
  • Creator economy

Decentralized Data Computation

Fluence supports IFPS and is always adding new systems

  • Decentralized apps
  • Mutable/dynamic NFTs

Cloud- Native Computing

Apps can enable dynamic updates and computation for data they keep in decentralized

content-addressable storage.Cloud-native applications may use Fluence to manage

microservice backends without reliance on a central coordination server.

  • Distributed microservice orchestration
  • Distributed SaaS
  • Server less

Blockchain Infrastructure

Cryptocurrency exchanges, multi-sig wallets, DAO management tools may use Fluence

to optimize gas costs by moving signed transactions, order books off-chain while

keeping on-chain trade settlement.

  • Cryptocurrency exchanges
  • Wallets
  • DAO tools
  • Cross-chain tools

Cryptocurrency exchanges, multisig wallets, DAO management tools may use Fluence to optimize gas costs by moving signed transactions, order books off-chain while keeping on-chain trade settlement.

Unstoppable API and Composition

As Fluence enables content-addressable code, services and functions can be permanently accessed over the network while hosted by at least a single node. This brings the new paradigm of composing APIs, which is much easier and faster than rebuilding and re-hosting similar microservices in the cloud for every new app.

Fluence is undoubtedly paving a clearer path towards more data decentralization and a global paradigm shift. The technology being proposed is completely different from any competitors.

Why is Fluence so stand apart? It’s core programming language is a big part of their unique approach Aqua is a new programming language specifically created for writing P2P workflows and scenarios.

Figures are executed as lightweight and portable WebAssembly services that may provide both pure calculation and proxy to external legacy APIs or binaries.

Fluence’s innate security starts with the method information and data is moved through its system. Fluence breaks down application data, workflow scripts and some metadata into conflict free replication data structures they call Particles. The particles are then transferred node to node/ peer-to-peer as directed by the application’s workflow.

It is thanks to the “particling” of data added to instructions from the service and network components that the secure composition of applications from services distributed across a permissionless peer-to-peer network is made possible.

Developers can ergonomically program distributed networks and applications by composition using Aqua. An intermediary representation of Aqua’s scripts create what they call AIR. AIR is then executed on the Aqua Virtual Machine. Aqua VM, itself a Wasm module hosted on the Marine interpreter on every peer node.

Using Services, modules, a trust layer, and SecurityTetraple a concept called ambient authority is born and authenticated at service API level. There you have the Fluence protocol.

If you found a company offering more features, security, and decentralization while at the same time being generally easier to work with, less costly, and being much more compatible amongst a variety of networks; why would you not make a switch? Fluence is doing it better, and you can too.

Technology created for open use is going to prove a better choice every time. Open source tech is not just developed to make a buck. It is developed by passionate devs for a reason, a purpose. A purpose that is often beneficial to all users.

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A. Nicole

News junkie, UFO Investigator, Independent Citizen Journalist, foodie, and dog mom bringing you stories mostly from the Southeastern parts of the US.