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This post really resonates with me, I've been building https://raremints.club https://raremints.club as a way for indie, non technical artists to create NFT's,
by czhu12 5y ago
This post really resonates with me, I've been building https://raremints.club https://raremints.club as a way for indie, non technical artists to create NFT's, and have really had to wrestle with all things "web3" that would've been trivial in "web2".
I tried to document some of the challenges here:
https://chriszhu12.medium.com/the-challenges-of-building-on-web3-a1c2095cb377 https://chriszhu12.medium.com/the-challenges-of-building-on-...
But basically: I built an app that relied on mostly stable gas fees. A single app on polygon spiked the fees over 10x in the past few days, and so large swaths of it have to be rebuilt.
The promise of web3 was software that was not controlled by any centralized company. But it seems like any new project sharing a chain can effectively DDoS what you've built.
This is effectively an anti-network effect. Inevitably, you'd have to start centralizing part of your application to avoid gas fees altogether to hedge this risk.
- sovietmudkipz 5y agoWow. I was thinking about making a game and saving player state in a similar way to what caused the gas prices to spike for everyone. I'm floored by the ramifications. My stomach feels very queasy with OP's article, and now yours.
- clippablematt 5y agoIt requires a change in mindset from “efficiency first” to “robust first”. That’s a tough learning curve for trad web devs, the best web3 dev I know comes from aerospace engineering where resilience and redundancy are part of the process. But ultimately succeeding in making something that can live in the sometimes hostile environment on chain means you make something that can last and is reliable. There can be awkward UX issues with that though. Relying on stable gas fees won’t work because the network has to have a priority list when it’s busy, so those willing to pay more will be prioritised and you’ll be stuck. If you want to inherit the properties of the chain that are why you would build on it in the first place then you have to work to those constraints.
- teatree 5y agoIn conventional web wasn't the same war fought as 'net neutrality' ? All packets are equal. Pardon me if I am wrong, I don't understand web3 or crypto much but what you describe looks like a capitalist version of Internet where processing of every request depends on one's ability to pay. If this is the future, history has already taught us that it is bound to fail.
- mattwilsonn888 5y agoStrong claim and no evidence.
- whenlambo 5y agoI’m actively building multichain NFT marketplace https://RareGems.io https://RareGems.io — your domain name resonates well :)