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Orthogonal Persistence for DApps on Cardano by Sky Protocol

Problem

Off-chain code for DApps may fail to persist enough state to recover funds, which can be critical if using e.g. Hydra, especially as manual persistence is error-prone and can be open to attacks.

Solution

Our orthogonally persistent engine for off-chain code will persist data over multiple datacenters, such that DApps using it can never lose funds due to failure to persist.

₳100,000
Total funds requested

About this idea

Team

François-René Rideau, Chief Scientist and Lead Developer

François-René has extensive experience building on Cardano.

François-René has been making programming languages and distributed systems usable for 25 years. Alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure, Former Senior Engineer at ITA Software, he also worked at Google and Bridgewater Associates. While working in the industry, he notably maintained and rewrote ASDF, the build system at the heart of the Common Lisp open source community; he also kept publishing academic papers and speaking at programming language conferences.

Gauthier Lamothe, Chief Operating Officer

Gauthier has participated in a few blockchain projects, for entities such as the Free Republic of Liberland (that recently started using Polkadot), and worked on decentralized justice systems, tokenization of governance, and of course crypto-currencies.

Yaroslav Kozhevnikov, Developer

Yaroslav Kozhevnikov has been a professional software developer for over 6 years. His past development projects have included the following.

Verifying subset of ASN1.C compiler, specifically the encoding/decoding of primitive types

The backend for the exchange (fiat to crypto) based on the Lightning Network

An e-learning project, rewriting parsers for the existing storage format and worked on the backend for the platform

The backend for the smart-contract startup for businesses (the idea was to have templated contracts for businesses, that they can use to hire workers/contractors and do other business related items), as well as on the smart contract language (embedded in Haskell) itself. The service was based on the Solana blockchain.

Working as a contractor to help refactor, clean and modernize a database for a company under NDA. This contract included helping profile and optimize contracts for the Cardano.

Yaroslav is currently working with François-René on the Sky backend, such as nodes, data structures for the data availability and handling infrastructure setup, among other features.

Manuel Simoni

Manuel has almost 30 years of programming experience and has worked in bio-, edu-, ad-, and fin-tech. He is fascinated by blockchain's potential to create previously impossible systems(hyperstructures). His hobbies are designing and implementing programming languages, operating systems, and hypermedia platforms.

Zoe Braiterman, Technical Community Manager

Zoe Braiterman has experience ranging from cyber security, data science and system architecture to product development. Passionate about helping startups to scale, she also has experience as a teacher and business manager. Her work as a security consultant has included diversity and education initiatives in collaboration with UN Women, along with similar diversity leadership initiatives utilizing artificial intelligence and other technologies, and she brings her passion for change making and social impact to the Web3 space.

Peter Hubshman, Chief Financial Officer

Peter is a finance and operations expert focusing on early round startups. With origins in private equity, fund management and leveraged buyouts, in the early 2000’s he operated Internet Real Estate Group, a Web 2.0 studio in Boston which successfully developed businesses including Creditcards.com; Phone.com; Luggage.com; Jeans.com and a dozen other early primary domain businesses. There, his pioneering team of engineers created some of the earliest successful affiliate marketing and advertising platforms on the Internet, and were early experts in search engine optimization.

Alexander Smart, Chief Legal Officer

Alexander has always thought fast, but learned to think deep and sharp at UChicago. After studying law at Pepperdine, he spent nearly fifteen years guiding executives and decision makers through litigation, in matters ranging from shoplifting and speeding tickets to multi-forum international investment bank disputes. His practice honed his ability to quickly assimilate and master new information, and deliver that information clearly at any level of sophistication. Tiring of courthouses, he found his skills were readily applicable and desperately needed in the blockchain space.