Crypto-First architecture
when I design a giveaway platform for people who has no wallet but just use a Twitter login. I found this kind of hybrid system interesting, I call them crypto-first architecture and I want to share how to implement it and what problems I face.
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mobile-first first
before we jump into crypto-first, let me talk about mobile-first. it comes up by the mobile traffic growth. but more important because of the responsive design. people visit a web page from mobile and desktop are different layouts and different designs, but with the same code returned from the server. and then we need to talk about how to design for users and businesses, so mobile-first born.
what about crypto-first, we are at the same time crypto growth just like mobile, we have routes for the digital interactive.
crypto can do something the internet can do, for example, payment, login, storage, name service, copyright, and so on. but they are separated by two different worlds.
what is crypto-first architecture
CEX like Coinbase, Binance was a hybrid system. users sign in with an email accounts system, and then the system creates and manages a wallet for the users. the wallet was controlled by CEX but belonged to the user. or the opposite. this make lots of problems, CEX runaway, we should build some standards to avoid this.
in fact, we could do lots of things based on CEX's architecture. from account systems to payment, membership, social, creative, and so on.
Systems like CEX, hold wallet for users was one of the popular solutions for crypto-first architecture. but we have many solutions to combine crypto and the current internet system. for example, People who open a net shop could sell tokens and other goods. user payment could use bitcoin or dollars, an article could save in a database or IPFS.
we should combine crypto and the traditional world, for now, we should design the crypto-first system, this would be challenged. and full of opportunities. lots of systems could be redesigned, but instead of building a crypto-only app, we should build a crypto-first hybrid system for the real world.