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Is anybody else using blockchains as compute nodes? Like lambda that your users pay for to update the state of your application instead of you, while reading is

Is anybody else using blockchains as compute nodes? Like lambda that your users pay for to update the state of your application instead of you, while reading is completely free? I haven't seen an equivalent system thats so economical for developers. I don't care that my application doesn't need to be on all 7000 nodes, not even a factor. And as far as funnels go, in Web 2.0 logic the point of the "funnel" was to convert a user into a paying user, in Web 3 they are already paying users at the beginning of the funnel, and pay to update the state of your application before you ask them to do anything, this is heavily optimized for driving revenue when applying the funnel concept. So if you design your application for this, you can strip out most of the complicated frontend and backend stack and don't have to pay subscriptions to any SaaS service, and get revenue because your funnel is 1 step too.

swalsh 4y ago
"I don't care that my application doesn't need to be on all 7000 nodes, not even a factor." This is an interesting topic, blockchain security is very useful for a bunch of applications (i'd prefence that to say stop trying to touch the real world with the blockchain, and you realize it's fucking amazing) but you don't need the same amount of distributed security for all applications. Banking apps need high security, gaming apps need a lot less. Avalanche is really interesting in this respect. It has the main C-Chain which has thousands of validators but it also has subnets which might have just a few validators. This gives you the ability to toggle your security needs to your application (it also let's you toggle the VM, so you do things like add stateful precompiles which let you do things that may not be practical in the EVM.