DeCast – The first truly distributed video hosting

Problem

Media industry is greatly influenced by corporations, governments and personal opinions of influential persons. This entails the entropy leading to a misunderstanding of the current reality of any period of time.

What we think about it

Content accessibility and copyright protection are the major objectives of the DeCast project. The project team creates an online platform for media content, which will provide uninterrupted access to the content created by the authors.

How we built our solution

DeCast dApp is a gateway between several isolated yet interconnected protocols. It is a new vision of access media, its monetization and management. All can be creators, share their content and be sure their audience will see their created product.

All of the above can be achieved by using the following Web 3.0 technologies

Hedera Hashgraph (HH), to generate value from content and closed economy into dApp;
InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) to store media in the current phase, and FileCoin - for future;
Hyperledger Fabric (HF), to store metadata in the current phase, and Constellation (DAG) - for future.

Challenges we ran into

We are faced with the development of a compromise model between the law enforcement and providing users with the level of freedom that is guaranteed by blockchain technologies. It took a lot of effort to create a distributed metadata repository that we are proud of. Now every content view, like and comment will not be lost and will be viral.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We have developed a self-sufficient system of protocols, have already implemented MVP, and any user can already use the dApp. Content creators are already becoming copyright holders of their creations thanks to the release of the NFT

What we learned

This is our first experience with Ethereum and Hedera Hashgraph smart-contracts and decentralization data stores.

What's next for DeCast – The first truly distributed video hosting

We started working with our project as an open source product and will register a non-profit Fund (NGO) for this project development. The project roadmap is ready, and we plan to follow it in the next few years. Welcome to the our friendly community!