It "could be one day" for the past decade. That's how long it's been around.
this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2023
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It's probably going to be surpassed by Veilid:
That project seems much smaller and isn't doing the same thing
It is a brand new project from the Cult of the Dead Cow. It will grow quickly. It is much more sophisticated than either ipfs or tor, combining the advantages of both into a new framework for apps to be developed on top of. I think it will be a game changer.
Well Idk but they are always talking about a network for apps. But what I want to see is a decentralized storage. Nothing less nothing more. Thats what IPFS is supposed to be. What other build on top is a whole different story. I think we should put our efforts together instead of trying to reinvent the weel.
It's a development framework/platform for apps to run in/on. It already has decentralized record storage built in via a modern DHT scheme, and they are working to introduce block storage soon via the RPC protocol. Peers will be able to advertise what they have via the hash, and the DHT provides the searching so the data can be obtained from wherever it is. So unlike current IPFS/DHT, there's no more hoping one peer can keep it alive. Popular data becomes more available automatically.
Veilid is way beyond IPFS. If you have ever used IPFS then you know well of it's drawbacks. This aims to fix those, as well as the drawbacks inherent in Tor, while providing the benefits of both, with some advanced bittorrent functionality baked in.
Here are more details if you are interested:
The Internals of Veilid, a New Distributed Application Framework
Ok this sounds a lot better now. As you explained it Vailid can also be used for storage purposes only? Like a distributed public file storage? And if apps can access this storage this is more than welcome. But I'm more concerned about the foundation.
Or even distributed private storage with multi-writer support. All fully encrypted. It all depends on the apps that have yet to be developed. It's a brand new framework the CDC just announced at Defcon this year. The reason why I think it will be a game changer is because Cult of the Dead Cow have a good reputation of getting things done, and they know what they are doing.