7 Ingredients of User-Friendly Interoperability at OrchestrumOS
Nowadays it’s hard to not bump on blockchain projects that talk about adoption. However, adoption is not a magic button that happens through merely talking about it.
If you ask an average user, he/she only cares about how he/she can benefit more from your products and services. Blockchain brings many revelations for user-centric practices because core elements such as community involvement, decentralized execution, and feedbacks we can get while building products can help service builders gain much more advantage compared to previous ways of building centralized applications.
Starting with an approach by putting end users in the centre of design thinking, and tapping into the power of community-involved processes along the way can together bring out the best products and services, something that is much more exciting than customer-centric approaches.
At OrchestrumOS, our first questions needed to be relevant for both builders, and their end users because interoperability requires thinking for both user spectrums;
What can we do for the blockchain ecosystem, so end users like businesses and personal users would want to use decentralized applications more?
How can we make today’s decentralized applications become much more valuable for users?
How can we make interoperability so simple and advantageous that all dApps would want to connect to each other?
Through asking questions such as these, we found ways to repackage technical advancements that will make interoperability much more beneficial, and user-friendly.
Building bridges between smart contract networks can be means to unleash a collaborative builder platform that will unlock a sharing economy between the products built on the blockchain.
Our key user segment is builders and existing dApps who want to serve with better products and services to their own users. Thus, we wanted to connect technical advancements, with tools, GUIs, and platforms that will serve both to builders, and their end users.
We believe each product can play a role in the adoption of blockchain, but infrastructure projects undoubtedly play a bigger role to make this transition happen. And for that, they need to go beyond protocols, and build to serve for gamechanging decentralized products and services.
Here are the 7 ingredients that make the core of OrchestrumOS interoperability more user friendly, so to free the spirit of blockchain for new creative ways to make more people adopt the value propositions of the decentralized world;
1. Easy integration GUIs:
Connecting the ecosystem through interoperability demands easy onboarding journeys.
Platforms like Zapier, Slack and IFTTT have tremendous jobs in the centralized software world to bring applications together.
In a similar approach, OrchestrumOS will come with an API-like abstraction layer and documentation suitable to each particular bridge network, for a dApp to serve to the larger ecosystem of all smart contract networks.
On top of the platform, we will also bring a platform layer, called Integration Service, where a category based marketplace for all interoperable decentralized applications will be listed for one-click integrations.
2. Functional bridges:
While most of the cross-chain interoperability has focused on transacting cryptocurrency assets between chains, true interoperability will not be possible, without connecting data and functionalities of dApps in a chain-agnostic way.
Building functional bridges between smart contract platforms will be very similar to how APIs work in the software world, where data and functions of application A can be of benefit to application B. This will save builders a ton of time and resources while building more robust solutions for end users.
Functional bridges will also substantially increase the interconnected economies between smart contract infrastructures, increasing the adoption of dApps both within the ecosystem, and within the end user segments of each decentralized service.
3. Complementary suites and tools:
Complementary components are great additions we can use for increasing value propositions builders can get from interoperability.
At OrchestrumOS we have 7 components, each filling an important spot in order to bring a true sharing economy between in blockchain ecosystem. These are; iidApp Builder, Project Hub, Integration Service, Template Center, Developers Space, Test Center and Analytics & Data Center.
Each of these components serves like a suite and a marketplace where developers and decentralized services can join for bringing new benefits in specific areas, and earn by providing services to others.
In our next article, we will share a visual story on how OrchestrumOS components will work towards reaching a highly advantageous interoperability platform for all the builders to get the most out of blockchain.
4. Low fee interoperable communications:
For decentralized applications to harness functional solutions from a wide range of smart contract networks, we need to make the intercommunication transaction costs as cheap as possible.
Otherwise due to transaction costs interoperability will be less favorable.
In order to make low fee transactions available, OrchestrumOS will run with a Proof of Stake mechanism that will reward validation reward the inflation distribution among the validators.
And we will also have a coin burning mechanism, where 25% of coins used for payments at OrchestrumOS platform components will always be burned.
Through this approach, while keeping transaction fees cheap, validators will have a reward mechanism that is much more meaningful than just earning inflation rewards.
5. Customizable parallel chains and private chains:
Infrastructures of blockchain are just in their beginning.
It’s very likely that there will be many different infrastructures that are specific to certain industries and specifications. The Cambrian Explosion in this space already shows these signs.
In an interoperable network of parallel chain and private chains, customizability is a crucial need for different types of needs.
At OrchestrumOS, we will build user interface panels to enable all builders who need their own parallel and private chains customized according to their own needs.
While not every dApp will need these customizations, those who are using a great number of integrations in their products will be able to serve to their users without latency issues and/or bottleneck problems, as well as other added benefits while using interoperable integrations.
6. Scalability with fast finality:
Volume of transactions taking place in a given time, and making sure these transactions are fast enough for integrations to work seamlessly are important aspects for interoperable communications.
At OrchestrumOS, we believe in a 360 approach in relation to technical specs.
Zero knowledge proofs, sharding, new consensus families, and parallel chains are some of the widely known solutions in the ecosystem which can be integrated together, rather than using only one particular solution.
While we are only at the beginning of scalability era for blockchain, we will stand in an open-minded perspective for adopting the latest solutions, so products and services that use OrchestrumOS can serve their users with great user experiences without technical problems.
A part of OrchestrumOS funds will always be dedicated to upgrading our medium chain, as well as the complementary chains such as parallel chains and private chains, in a continuous research & development mindset.
7. Decentralized harmonious governance:
Blockchain interoperability at its’ core needs a collective collaboration of all builders of this ecosystem.
While corporate world always dictated to humanity the ways of competition and the survival of the fittest, if we are to change the systems of this world through blockchain, there is no better way to do this by working together as joint forces.
OrchestrumOS will run with a decentralized governance mechanism that is about the harmonious participation of all the players in the ecosystem.
The two initial mechanisms will be a Consortium, and community involvement programs that welcome all the builders, and people of the ecosystem, to usher a unifying decision making and execution process, to serve the ecosystem in the best ways possible.
We believe that this collaborative participation will foster a platform that is built for the needs of all of our end users, and help us continue to expand with feedbacks and opinions of those who want to use our platform.
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