Ethereum Co-founder Launches Andiami

Di Iorio took the stage in downtown Toronto on Monday night as part of the opening ceremonies for the W3B conference to officially introduce project Andiami, an Italian term he developed that means “Let’s go together.” The launch of the project will take place over several years and entail tokens and a new protocol. At its core, it hinges around sending 3,000 Cube console devices to individuals worldwide who will be randomly selected from a white list.

Di Iorio described the Cubes, which he likens to Xbox-like gadgets, as being essential to resolving the two main issues that, in his opinion, are preventing the development of Web3: the paradox of centralized decentralization and the continuation of Web2 economic models.

The phrase “centralized decentralization” describes the scenario where key Ethereum components, which are ostensibly decentralized, are increasingly governed by a small number of major stakeholders. Alchemy and Infura, for example, provide infrastructure that enables businesses to interface with blockchains, and more recently, Coinbase and Lido, who are in charge of verifying transactions under Ethereum’s new proof-of-stake method. These major firms, however, rely on the centralized servers of Web2 goliaths like Amazon and Google to run their businesses.

“The Cubes will be plug-and-play full nodes with indexed blockchain data for any chain,” Di Lorio explains. “You can’t have a user-controlled internet if the user doesn’t have their own server.”

Di Iorio thinks the answer to this is to enable people to displace these centralized blockchain actors by deploying their own hardware. For this reason, he created the Cubes, which will function as decentralized servers with a storage capacity of 12 terabytes and the ability to interact with any significant blockchain, storing copies of ledger histories and validating
transactions.

Written by Ruben Luthra