Pocket Network

Today in Outer Space we blast off with Valeria Benitez Florez, Co-founder and lead designer of Pocket Network — A very interesting project incentivizing and helping others to run full network nodes.

The True Heart of Web3 = Decentralized Money + Storage + Compute & Bandwidth — The Big Four of Web3 All Decentralized Applications in the Web3 universe use four fundamental building blocks. Money + Storage + Compute + Bandwidth. …

At Drops DAO, we’re all about continuing to utilize and deploy the optimal infrastructure to help power our NFT loans platform to be as decentralized as possible. With our mainnet now up and running and new NFT lending pools being added into the mix, this is more important than ever. …

Disclaimer: Truth be told, of course, when working for an L1, your job isn’t to shill other L1s. And it’s not what I intend to do with this post either (you will learn Pocket is also not a true L1). However, I think there’s a lot to be learned from…

The RPC Centralization Issue in Web3: — Everyone is worried about the validator’s decentralization, but no one is worried about the centralized way people access blockchain networks nowadays. Why is this centralized ATM? All Dapps need a way to communicate with a blockchain network. Without that, Dapps cannot trigger transactions or access information on the blockchain. …

What is Pocket Network? Pocket Network’s mission is to “coordinate open access to the world’s public data by empowering anyone to provide unstoppable infrastructure”. In other words, it aims to be the decentralized alternative to the backend infrastructure that is needed for an application to interact with any blockchain. This is done by providing…

Pocket Network is the TCP/IP of Web3 node infrastructure, it’s a multi-chain relay protocol that incentivizes RPC nodes to provide DApps and their users with unstoppable Web3 access. Using Pocket Network is as easy as any other RPC. If you're already using a centralized RPC provider, the Pocket Portal was…

The Pocket Network, a blockchain data ecosystem for Web3 applications, is a platform built for applications that use low-cost economics to gather and distribute data at scale. With Pocket, the use of blockchains can be easily integrated into websites, mobile apps, IoT, and more applications that accompany end consumers every…

The Opportunity: Blockchains are meant to validate transactions and store state, leaving the reading of the chain up to anyone who wishes to do the work. As an application, you often need to read from the chain to know who has what or did what. For example, how does a…