The biggest release in Dash’s history to date, the Evolution platform, activated on September 2nd of 2024.
It started as a vision for blockchain-level usernames and contact lists, but evolved into a much more ambitious project to properly fill in all the missing gaps around decentralized money, namely, the data layer.
So what is Dash Evolution? Evolution is a first-of-its-kind decentralized application platform that lets you build apps on fast, easy and reliable access to decentralized data.
More specifically, Evolution is a platform for executing data contracts. These write data to indexed and queryable decentralized storage.
A decentralized API allows anyone to access that data on demand. It’s ideal for any app where you want to store data in a decentralized way, and quickly search and access exactly the piece of data you need.
These include accounting software, merchant maps, social media, anything where you need to store data in a decentralized, censorship-resistant way, and where you can easily call up exactly the data you need, exactly when you need it.
So why would someone use Dash Evolution?
Users benefit from Dash as money because they are able to enjoy a much easier and more intuitive payment experience, privately, and without trusting a centralized third party that could lose or sell their data, or which could be shut down or censor them. And they don’t even need to run their own node.
They also benefit from using apps built on Dash because they can truly own their own data. When using apps powered by Dash, their resulting data stored by the Dash network will be owned by them, even if the app they were using shuts down. And because they own their data, it transfers to each new app built on Dash.
Developers will want to build on Dash because they can easily build a legacy Web2-style app in familiar languages such as JavaScript, easily read and write data to the network without needing to run a node or pay for an infrastructure provider, run or trust an indexer, and pay as they go for data storage on an immutable network that can’t be shut down, and that they can modify if need be. Their data can be easily queried and accessed on-demand, making their apps easier to build as well as use.
The Evolution of money and data is here. Keep watching the next videos in the series as we go in-depth into the Evolution platform, its architecture, and its capabilities.
