Find New｜Radicle: Decentralized Github

"Find New" is a blockchain project observation project launched by Jinse Finance. It covers the development of projects in various fields of the industry, and the specific design includes project overview, technological progress, fundraising situation, etc., and strives to present you a collection of popular and trendy projects. .

Radicle is a decentralized code collaboration network built on an open protocol. It enables developers to collaborate on code without relying on trusted intermediaries. Radicle aims to provide similar functionality to a centralized code collaboration platform, while retaining the peer-to-peer nature of Git and building on the advantages that make distributed version control so powerful.

The network is powered by Radicle Link built on Git. Radicle Link extends Git with peer-to-peer discovery by distributing data through a process called gossip. That is, participants in the network share and disseminate data they are "interested in" by keeping redundant copies locally and sharing local data with selected peers. By leveraging Git's intelligent transport protocol, Radiicle Link maintains the efficiency of Git in terms of data replication, while providing globally decentralized repository storage through a peer-to-peer network layer.

Since all data on the network is stored locally by peers on the network, developers can share and collaborate on Git repositories without relying on intermediaries such as hosting servers.

Sudoswap launched a new sudo AMM joint curve "Concentrated XYK Curve", which allows setting a more concentrated price range: On September 16th, the NFT trading protocol sudoswap launched a new sudoAMM joint curve, the Concentrated XYK Curve (Concentrated XYK Curve), which can Let users replicate the full range of Uniswap V2LP, and set a more focused price range. LPs can configure "pooling" parameters, controlling pool depth and slippage. If the "centralized" parameter is set to 0, it is effectively the same as the full-scope Uniswap V2 pool, but for NFTs. LPs can also increase concentration to tighten price bands. [2022/9/16 6:59:58]

Collaborating on Radicle is slightly different than collaborating on centralized code collaboration platforms like GitHub and GitLab.

1. The Radicle stack is open source from top to bottom. There are no "closed" components. Every component of the Radicle stack is auditable, modifiable and extensible.

2. Radicle is completely built on an open protocol. There are no "special servers", privileged users or companies controlling your collaboration.

Radicle is based on a peer-to-peer architecture rather than a client-server model.

The Macalinao brothers leave the venture capital firm Protagonist VC: According to Jinse Financial News, the former co-founders and partners of Protagonist VC, the Macalinao brothers have left the company. The Macalinao brothers, two prolific cryptocurrency builders who used a network of secret identities to boost their once-mighty stablecoin exchange Saber, then pivoted to venture capital with a $100 million fund. (CoinDesk) [2022/9/2 13:03:50]

3. Radicle is not global by default. Instead, the social graph of the peers and projects you follow determines what you see, interact with, and copy.

4. Radicle is designed for bazaar-style development. This means that within the project, there is no single master branch for contributors to merge into. Instead, peers maintain their own views of items that other peers can fetch and incorporate via patches.

5. Radicle's decentralized organization on Ethereum replaces the centrally forged Org functionality and its hierarchical management model.

6. Radicle is a self-sustaining and community-owned network not a company. Its governance is maintained by a token called RAD that resides on Ethereum.

QTC launches mobile wallet: According to official news, the mobile app wallet officially developed by QTC will be available soon. It is suitable for iOS and Android systems and can be downloaded and used in the App Store worldwide. Android and iOS systems are currently being tested. It is expected It will be completed before 24:00 on July 30, and will be open sourced on the entire network. [2022/7/21 2:28:23]

The easiest way to use Radicle is to use Upstream, a desktop client developed by the founding team of the Radicle project. With Upstream, you can create an identity, host your code, and collaborate with others on the Radicle network.

Radicle is designed for bazaar-style development. This means that there is no single canonical view (e.g. master) for any project, but rather multiple upstreams maintained by maintainers and contributors who exchange patches with each other.

On the same item, two people will have subjective (and often different) perspectives, but your opinion of the item will be the sum of all other views of the item. Conceptually, the project would be decentralized across many views of its maintainers and contributors, rather than limited to controlling a small set of people with read/write access.

In practice, this means that to fetch and receive changes from a contributor, you must add the other person as a remote to your project. Adding someone as a remote automatically tracks them, giving you a way to continuously subscribe to the updates (i.e. new commits) they make to your project.

Russian lawmakers: Encrypted assets can help Russia return to the global financial market: Jinse Finance reported that a member of the Russian Duma (the lower house of parliament) pointed out that the cryptocurrency field is an area where it is difficult to impose restrictions on Russia. In an interview with Parlamentskaya Gazeta, Alexander Yakubovsky emphasized that the country has the resources to establish its own cryptocurrency exchange and use alternative payment schemes and platforms. The lawmaker acknowledged that global exchanges like Binance are under pressure to support restrictions on the Russian Federation. At the same time, he noted that experts from the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges are advising lawmakers on their efforts to design a regulatory framework for digital assets in Russia.

Yakubovsky, a member of the Duma task force tasked with proposing sweeping crypto regulations, said the new legislation could provide Russia with access to financial markets that Western governments are now trying to close for Moscow. He elaborated and stated that this will depend on the effectiveness of the new framework: moreover, the effective development of digital financial assets will minimize the damage of state sanctions. (news.bitcoin) [2022/3/18 14:03:53]

You're probably used to the concept of having a remote for your project when pushing to a centralized hosting platform like GitHub. This allows you to fetch and push changes from the server hosting your project. In Radicle, the other peers' remotes point to a Git monorepo on the computer where all your Radicle data is stored. These remotes allow you to fetch changes from peers and publish changes to the Radicle network. This means fetching and pushing to the remote is the primary operation locally. To learn more about how Radicle is built on top of Git, see our How it works section.

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Introducing social coding features such as bug reports, patches, and code reviews will make it easier for people to know if these changes exist, improving the process of finding and obtaining changes among people on the web.

Over the past decade, open source has become the standard in software development. The free and open sharing of code has made building software much cheaper and easier - and as a result, technological innovation has flourished.

Code hosting and collaboration platforms such as GitHub and GitLab have contributed greatly to the growth of open source by bringing it to a mainstream audience. They defined standard vocabulary and behavior, made git usable by a wider audience, empowered social coding, and created a global developer community. It is undeniable that they have completely changed the way people write code.

As is the state of code collaboration, these platforms also host the largest open source development repositories consisting of not only code but also issues, pull requests, comments, and annotations. Even social connections (like celebrities) only exist in these platforms.

However, these platforms are owned by companies. They are bound by corporate law and have the power to define their terms of service. They can implement user bans, such as those currently imposed on GitHub accounts in Iran, Syria, and Crimea in response to pressure from the U.S. government. They are vulnerable to censorship and corporate and national restrictions, which are often at odds with the goals of the free and open source community.

In a world where nearly all software depends on open source code, maintaining the resilience and health of the free and open source ecosystem is more important than ever. This is why we believe it is unsustainable to rely on open source infrastructure for critical hosting, and centralized hosting platforms and companies. Reliance on such centralized services contradicts the value of a free and open source ecosystem.

Radicle is considered an alternative. Its goal is to remove intermediaries and create a robust, functional and secure peer-to-peer ecosystem. There must be an intentional shift in narrative to favor decentralized alternatives for code collaboration following FOSS principles.

Alternatives to GitHub include platforms like SourceForge and GitLab, as well as more established collaboration methods like mailing lists. Platforms such as Gitea or Gogs provide self-hosted open source solutions for code collaboration with low platform risk but leave developers in an isolated environment without access to a global network of developers. One alternative proposed is alliances. Proposals such as ForgeFed and the federated GitLab are steps in the right direction, but their implementation is imperfect or lacking. Additionally, federations rely on domain names that can, and often are, seized by governments.

Other mature open source projects, such as the Linux kernel, employ more bazaars and accessible development environments that are not limited to a single platform, such as mailing lists. These can work, but they falter when following the established usability standards of platforms like GitHub.

Peer-to-peer protocols like Scuttlebutt give us alternative solutions for sharing and hosting information. These protocols can work offline without relying on servers, but applications based on them lack the ability for users to easily coordinate globally. For blogging or social networking use cases, this isn't much of an issue, but when it comes to software collaboration, a canonical global registry is essential to meeting the usability and discoverability standards of today's centralized platforms. The ability for anyone to contribute to any open source project, wherever it is, is essential to fostering a truly free and open web.

When we set out to build an alternative, we first considered the values we believe are integral to free and open source collaboration. Having said that, we have developed the following list of guiding principles:

It must prioritize user freedom, in the words of the free software movement:

Users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Thus, "free software" is a matter of liberty, not price.

It must be accessible and non-censorable

Anyone should have the freedom to use the software to collaborate with others. Neither party can prohibit users from accessing the system or from sharing content. It must be auditable and transparent. Additionally, users should have the freedom to control their interactions and what they see.

It must be user friendly

The software must be easy to use, and drastic changes in user behavior cannot be expected. Responsiveness and functionality must meet the standards established by the current platform.

must be offline first

It must work without an internet connection, DNS or online portals. There cannot be a single point of failure and must always be available.

It must not compromise on security

The trust of third parties or intermediaries shall not be required. Every artifact of the system must be attested and verified by a cryptographic signature.

Radicle adopts the Scuttlebutt social overlay paradigm by building a peer-to-peer replication layer on top of a distributed version control system starting with git releases. User accounts and logins are replaced by public key cryptography, hosted issue trackers are replaced by local peer-to-peer replication, and the idea of a single specification upstream is replaced by a patch-based peer-to-peer or "bazaar" model.

To complement the replication layer, we introduce an optional Ethereum-based registry containing canonical project metadata. This allows projects to anchor important information, such as project status and repository headers, while guaranteeing global availability and immutability.

The three main themes to highlight are the decision to focus on a peer-to-peer code collaboration model, replication on an underlying distributed version control system, and a protocol-first approach.

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