IndieDAO Summary — August '22
We're kicking off the IndieDAO MVP, chatting corporations vs decentralization, and reviewing what went down with Tornado Cash in August
What we’ve been building:
Design and development is underway on the IndieDAO Suite (name TBD)
Defined key user stories for the core flow and determined what’s necessary for an MVP and what the future state could look like
Established a first draft of a high-level product architecture and ERD
Indies proposed the core stack: NextJS with GraphQL and Typescript, Foundryup for testing, Extra Jest layer for integration testing, & FaunaDB
What we’re talking about:
Johns Hopkins professor pushed the Tornado Cash source code onto Github for research purposes, stating that silencing code could carry a “chilling effect”...
Do big corporations fear decentralization? Turns out, yeah, they do.
From a development perspective, we discussed the state of blockchain development (focus on gas, very low-level form of coding) versus other environs like React or higher-level frameworks, and what that means in terms of the environment at-large, users where there is a higher cost of connection, and how it changes focus.
Tycho shared the benefits of web3 to musicians: the data is owned by the artist, and opened up to their fan communities as he launches his open source community with Medallion.
Not looking good for Roche Freedman. Crypto Leaks revealed the tactics he used on behalf of avalanche (their firm is 1% token holder) were to keep everyone else in legal jeopardy using US class action lawsuits.
Decentralization with a single point of failure as eth.link was pre-expired by Godaddy. Eth.Limo was released as an alternative, privacy-preserving ENS gateway, enabling users to access Ethereum-native dApps and content.
Event-ticketing on-chain you say? Let’s go.
Poolsuite launches Grand Leisure and we’re in love.
Design Notes:
We had the age old discussion of iOS vs. Android! From our indie designers’ perspective… Apple has sealed the deal for many folks with iMessages and the unique experience of texting fellow iPhone friends. But, Google’s Android has significantly better UX as a system and allows creative flexibility for the user. So…which team are you?
Indies proposed improvements to the design file organization within our community, including a set of base files to start workshop engagements and MVP product flows
Clarity has a new discord integration, so the design team started to test it out with tasks as a way to track work
Great wrap up - lots of interesting happenings!