Mint my Files

Decentralized Storage Dapp and Mobile version to capabilities of Scanning and Generates a Legal compliant electronic documents files, share files, track digital signatures, monetize sell/buy storage

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Inspiration

Building an Hybrid Platform based on the experience I have gained over the years and combined with technologies that I have seen used in the market during my consulting gigs at Banks, Finance companies, Insurance companies, and businesses.

Inserting new technologies to these markets is difficult, I see this platform as a way to develop a solution that can be offered as Wordpress plug-in that can be adopted by a large number of Admins.

  • FileCoin and IPFS can provide a trusted ecosystem of decentralized secure storage not currently possible using Cloud Storage.

  • Wordpress is a widely used CMS platform with Plug-in dev capabilities

  • TATUM Blockchain REST API and Wordpress PlugIn facilitates interacting with 20+ Blockchains

  • Blockchain Storage, Blockchain Databases, and SmartContracts can be all used together to establish Document

What it does

Next GEN Hybrid Web2/Web3 Platform making use of Wordpress CMS for Member Portal, and a variety of Web2 apps or Web3 Dapps that combined can be use to perform Original Documents storage, sharing, establish workflows, and replace paper copies of legal original documents when adopted by organizations.

  • The platform can be considered a Blockchain Box with a determined capacity you pay for when storing, retrieving or validating data.
  • Original documents cannot be modified, however, they can be timestamped, annotated, shared, archived
  • Storage of Files on a Designated Filecoin/IPFS trusted Blockchain is possible if required by the solution
  • Platform backend allow to pay for the service using PayPal using Wordpress integration.
  • Platform backend allows to make conversion and pay using Bitcoin, Ethereum, Filecoin, and others Cryptocurrencies.
  • Files, Files Checksum, files metadata, short texts or programming flags are saved and minted on a variety of Blockchain and Traditional technologies
  • Mint my site adds a feature to Download a copy of a website on a compressed File and generates a Checksum signature that can be used later as proof of ownership, copyrights, or other applications.
  • APPS and DAPPs to perform validations and operations on the minted files can be written in any language and implement different workflows based on the SmartContrac or platform features offered once a document has been minted.
  • The concept of Workflows offer a predetermined set of actions to perform on a file. One example could be a special event ticket/token minted , a Workflow could be used to Scan, Validate the Scan Against the Original, Burn the token or Write a flag somewhere to expire the validity of the Minted file. Another sample is providing ID for opening a bank account: Share the minted ID cards, the bank access the shared file and executes the validation SmartContract , the Share is destroyed.

How we built it

Intended to be the Member Power interface, it Combines Web2 stack of Wordpress CMS, MySQL Databases and MongoDB, with Blockchain Web3 stack using Tatum for multi blockchain communications, ProvenDB used for storage of Files authenticity , Filecoin/IPFS storage of large original files, SmartContract and Minted Files Interaction using a variety of Languages and Client Interfaces.

Uses Wordpress PayPal payments integration and Javascript Web3 Blockchain REST API (TATUM) to interact with 20+ other Blockchains for payment and minting capabilities.

Challenges we ran into

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Accomplishments that we're proud of

Building a solution that mixes Web2 with upcoming Web3 solutions and make it easy for the average person, business, entity, to make use of Blockchain authenticity, distributed storage and validation capacities.

Reach the large base of Wordpress personal and commercial customers to introduce Blockchain storage and transactions without having to perform major changes to their existing Portal and CMS solutions.

Enable the Wordpress community to enter the Blockchain storage market

What we learned

What's next for Mint my Files

  • Continue project by creating various Dapps for different use cases
  • Propose proof of concepts to different use cases for private usage
  • Oracles of Information from Real world are made available through private blockchains using Filecoin/IPFS and Custom solutions
  • Oracles of Information from Private companies are made available through private blockchains and Custom solutions
  • New Standard to be proposed around security and roles, whitelisting of operators (ERC777 ERC721 ERC1155)
  • Consider Public Launch of Service
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Updates

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The World Wide Web is the largest information construct built by humanity and it has had a lot of progress since its creation, it is important to understand certain aspects of the evolution of the web from web 1.0 to web 4.0

This understanding of Web technologies can be different depending on who you are, where you live, and how you use the World Wide Web but there is something very clear: at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 56.9% for the forecast period of 2021 to 2026 the global #BLOCKCHAIN market should reach $56.7 billion by 2026 from $6.0 billion in 2021. The Financial companies they are waking up to the fact that they can save up to $12 billion a year from using #blockchain.

The numbers continue, and since we must inspire ourselves onto why we are doing this Hackathon , this event in which a large number of people are virtually meeting to engage in collaborative projects about Blockchain solutions programming, in which we are starting to understand it is more that an unique opportunity to for all participants.

Blockchain total #spending on integrating blockchain into #healthcare will rise to $5.61 billion by 2025, 55% of healthcare applications will have adopted blockchain for commercial deployment by 2025.

A couple of interesting facts , more than 90% of people engaging in Bitcoin are men and the FBI owns 1.5% of the world’s total bitcoins.

BLOCKCHAIN Fernando seriously ?
Yes , Blockchain, many Blockchains and we are going to be part of that market, no doubt! 60% of CIOs were on the verge of integrating blockchain into their infrastructure by the end of 2020, It is like the evolution of the Cloud if you want to look at it from that perspective.

You can think of a blockchain as an append-only database that is distributed amongst a network of nodes that each store the entire transaction history of the network. As the name suggests, a blockchain is an immutable record (chain) of data packets (blocks), which contain a set of operations that document some particular action associated with the blockchain (transactions).

In the Bitcoin like blockchains, these transactions are purely financial (X sent Y N Bitcoins). In the Ethereum like blockchains, it is possible to execute a variety of transaction types through the use of programs containing rules for processing a transaction (Smart Contracts).

Ethereum: Ethereum is a blockchain-based, distributed computing platform that provides scripting functionality through smart contracts. Dapps can utilise Ethereum and associated technologies and we’ll focus on it for this series.

However, note that it is not an essential requirement: BitTorrent, Popcorn Time and Tor are all examples of decentralised applications that do not use Ethereum.

Smart Contract Smart contracts in the context of Ethereum are scripts that are executed on a global network of public nodes , the EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) , and can read/write transactions from/to the blockchain. Smart contracts can be thought of as decentralised computation for a dapp; serving a similar role to an HTTP API interacting with a datastore, just not on centralised servers.

It is important to distinguish between Dapps and Smart Contracts: interfacing with data and services via contracts can be a big part of a dapp but, just as you can have a static app, a dapp can have zero contract interfaces.

High level overview of Web2 vs Web3

  • WEB2 APP Stack:
  • COMPUTATION : Server
  • HOSTING : Web Server
  • SERVICE LAYER :
  • STORAGE : Database

WEB3 DAPP Stack:

  • COMPUTATION : Peer-to-Peer Network
  • HOSTING : Distributed CDNs IPFS / SWARM
  • SERVICE LAYER : Smart Contract
  • STORAGE : Distributed Storage , Blockchain , FILECOIN

There are two pillars to a web3 project setup:

  • Web3.js (a dapp’s gateway to the Ethereum blockchain and smart contracts)
  • TestRPC (your local Ethereum blockchain).

Web3.js is the most advanced Ethereum JS library out there and TestRPC is currently the simplest way to get a local node running.

SHOW me the Money:
The global blockchain technology market is estimated to accumulate $20 billion in revenue by 2024, right now there are more than 70 million registered blockchain wallets and #banks are realizing they can reduce 30% of their infrastructure costs. Globally, the banking sector alone could generate up to $1 billion in revenue from blockchain-based cryptos.

Blockchain comes second , after artificial intelligence and machine learning, as the most disruptive technologies in recent times (Gartner). Blockchain has found usefulness in almost every sector where it has been applied. From manufacturing to agriculture, insurance, banking, and many more.

We must take the time during these last lines to start explore this evolution of Web 1.0 to Web4.0 from different point of views, various angles that will give us a solid understanding where this Blockchain technology and its derivates come to complete the foundations used to build Distributed APPlications, Distributed commerce solutions, and Hybrid platforms that run on top of cloud and blockchain networks.

Web 1.0 , a web of information connections Web 2.0 , a web of people connections Web 3.0 , a web of knowledge connections Web 4.0 , a web of intelligence connections

We could say : Web 1.0 - READ-Only : Information Economy Web 2.0 - READ-WRITE :Platform Economy Web 3.0 - READ-WRITE EXECUTE :Token Economy Web 4.0 - READ-WRITE EXECUTE MOBILE IOT : Future Economy Web 5.0 - READ-WRITE EXECUTE MOBILE IOT OPEN LINKED INTELLIGENT : Emotional Web , the ultimate Future Economy ?

Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 - a Syntatic Web Web 3.0 and Web 4.0 - a Semantic Web , start of Symbiotic Web Web 5.0 - Symbiotic Web , Artificial Intelligence Virtual Assistant, Virtual Entertainment

Web 3.0 networks will operate through decentralized protocols, the founding blocks of blockchain and cryptocurrency technology, we can expect to see a strong convergence and symbiotic relationship between these three technologies and other fields. They will be interoperable, seamlessly integrated, automated through smart contracts and used to power anything from micro transactions in Africa, censorship-resistant P2P data file storage and sharing with applications like Filecoin, to completely changing every company conduct and operate their business.

Hey you said Filecoin again last Fernando? Yeah , Filecoin , a file storage blockchain network that enables anyone to become a storage provider, allowing web3 users to store personal, web hosting, or enterprise files.

Filecoin is built on IPFS to create a distributed storage marketplace for long-term storage. Nodes with a large storage capacity can rent their storage to users and get paid for it. ... This delivery mechanism may make use of IPFS but is still in design.

Meet the Interplanetary File System IPFS, a relatively new hypermedia protocol and decentralized data storage system that leverages a peer-to-peer (p2p) network architecture who is paving the way for a Distributed, Permanent Web. They describe their protocol as THE peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to preserve and grow humanity's knowledge by making the web upgradeable, resilient, and more open

How this #IPFS and #Filecoin works Fernando ? It is part of the basic understanding of how are we building our app #MINT-MY-FILES during this Hackathon:

  • When you put data in IPFS , it is available by its HASH Address or CID

  • Just like anyone in the world can put a URL into their browser and retrieve it, anyone with the CID can retrieve data available in the IPFS network

  • Filecoin on its end acts as an incentive layer atop #IPFS for people to be paid for their storage rather than participate in the existing voluntary storage system.

  • Filecoin consists of the blockchain, retrieval nodes, storage nodes, and a native token (filecoin)

We can say then that Filecoin aims to become a decentralized storage network allowing users to buy/sell unused storage on an open market. The #filecoin protocol is an incentive layer on top of peer-to-peer file system IPFS, built with a native token and distributed ledger

OK, time to start the Architecture now. If you need to buy some Filecoin , or you want me to send you some Free Filecoin crypto to get you started , crypto‌.com/exch/qqs5b697nt is one of my preferred Exchange. Send me your Crypto wallet address if you request some coins, this is a limited offer to some participates of the Hackathon only.

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