Hi, Vapor is a protocol for building a decentralized web, but takes a different approach from other existing "decentralized internet" projects.
Instead of decentralizing the networking stack, Vapor focuses on on decentralizing the data packet itself, which means Vapor can live on top of any other networking stack, most notably HTTP. Because it's just vanilla HTTP, users don't need do things like connecting to P2P networks and the app looks just like a regular web app, except that every API is signed by the user Bitcoin wallet.
Note that the HTTP requests are serialized and stored as OFFCHAIN Bitcoin transactions by default and never bloats up the blockchain. Optionally, the offchain transactions can be compressed into a transaction id bundle and timestamped on the blockchain as well as taking advantage of the programmability and payment ability of the Bitcoin script itself, but by default it's all offchain, yet still achieves decentralization and trustless replication of HTTP requests.
The reference client is almost ready and just wanted to get it out there to see who's interested. Thank you for taking a look.
Instead of decentralizing the networking stack, Vapor focuses on on decentralizing the data packet itself, which means Vapor can live on top of any other networking stack, most notably HTTP. Because it's just vanilla HTTP, users don't need do things like connecting to P2P networks and the app looks just like a regular web app, except that every API is signed by the user Bitcoin wallet.
Note that the HTTP requests are serialized and stored as OFFCHAIN Bitcoin transactions by default and never bloats up the blockchain. Optionally, the offchain transactions can be compressed into a transaction id bundle and timestamped on the blockchain as well as taking advantage of the programmability and payment ability of the Bitcoin script itself, but by default it's all offchain, yet still achieves decentralization and trustless replication of HTTP requests.
The reference client is almost ready and just wanted to get it out there to see who's interested. Thank you for taking a look.