The dlux.io team is back with a proposal for ongoing development of HIVE's original Layer 2 protocol: Honeycomb
Honeycomb uses concensus nodes to maintain full decentralization, and has been first to market with several HIVE Layer 2 Features, including:
Community Tokens running on lightweight nodes anyone can operate
Decentralized Exchange for trading community tokens with no central authority
Generative Art NFTs with minting, trading, auctioning, and selling!
Roadmap (2024-2025)
Growing with Hive
Hive will be transitioning to HF28, intended to include "lite accounts" that run on Hive's new smart contract system. We will support lite account functionality within Honeycomb, ensuring new users have acces to low friction digital IDs that facilitate easy onboarding.
@disregardfiat currently runs a Hive Witness (#41) with full HAF API to support Honeycomb API calls, and a full backup API to support continuous operation. He maintains the node, keeping it up to date with the latest patches and releases, while responding to any unforseen crashes as quickly as possible. Additionally, he has made contributions to the HAF API codebase.
SPK Network
SPK Network presents a brand new approach to cloud storage
The SPK Network fork of Honeycomb offers decentralized and incentivized network infrastructure that utilizes BROCA resource credits to secure file storage, while rewarding service providers with SPK Governance.
It's a radical reimagining of cloud storage, and marks the start of new pricing modalities for infrastructure markets.
Use SPK Power to create storage contracts, or choose a sponsored upload channel
Files can be encrypted, shared, tagged, and licensed, with full owner control
SPK Network is the flagship showcase of Honeycomb's capabilities
This fork of the software has povided an opportunity to develop a wholly different governance structure that includes:
Token and dPos voting
Hard resource based token issuance via algorithmic APR (storage)
Managemment of licenses and ownership transferral
Censorship resistance and file preservation with the help of the community
Encouraged deletion of files that shouldn't be collectively stored
SPK Network Testnet
SPK Network is fully in testnet. An all-in community day is scheduled for September 24th, 2024, to welcome Hivians. The SPK Network is here in a real and meaningful way. Work done to bring this complex multi-party system online has been arduous, but we feel that the tokenomics and proving systems are up to task and ready to be stress-tested.
We will continue our development and testing of the SPK Network Honeycomb fork. Features developed in this fork will be rolled into the Honeycomb unified codebase once stable.
Open Source UI
The utility and functionality of Honeycomb continue to evolve, and we are dedicated to pioneering interfaces that prioritize the user experience front-and-center. As we continue to improve and optimize based on industry best practices, we are committed to releasing our software for others to remix in their own way.
All interfaces we build are open source using modern Bootstrap 5, Vue 3 and WebXR. To support SPK Testnet features, several new User Interface components are being built and tested that provide modularity and scalability for use on other front ends.
SPK Wallet Component
SPK: Send, Power Up, Power Down
SPK Power: Vote, Elect Validators
LARYNX: Send, Power Up, Power Down
LARYNX Power: Delegate
BROCA: Create Contract
SPK Cloud
Files view with list and thumbnail display options
Contracts view with extension, tags, labels, license, encryption, sharing
Mobile Overhaul
The entire dlux.io website has been rebuilt from the ground up within a mobile-first framework, and work is ongoing to bring feature parity across all platforms, including mobile, desktop, and headset.
Invite Onboarding
DLUX Honeycomb QR Onboarding is currently in development. It supports claiming account creation tokens (ACTs) and using them to create accounts for new users. Soon new users will be able to scan a Hivian's QR code to enter an onboarding portal funded from the originating account ACTs or liquid HIVE/HBD balance.
Expanding Documentation
We moved our documentation to a new mobile friendly front-end with sophisticated search indexing, driven by simple markdown files any Github user can contribute to. We will continue documenting functionality added to Honeycomb, including how other communities can take advantage of the interfaces we have built.
Automated Market-Maker
We will continue to mimic the @hbdstabilizer function and autonomously sell our DAO HBD for Hive. Additionally, we have been testing a more advanced system with deeper functionality. It is still under development, and we will have more to share about this soon.
Track Record
Communities
The user response has been fantastic, with Honeycomb now powering three distinctly different ecosystems:
The original DLUX token (dlux.io) demonstrates the capabilities of Layer 2 on HIVE, including community DEX, NFT market, and using tokens within games and experiences.
Independent Validator Nodes: 8
Estimated Market Cap: $477,568.04
The SPK Network token (spk.network) includes the LARYNX miner token, SPK governance token, and BROCA resource token for storing files and other multi-media infrastructure use cases.
Independent Validator Nodes: 11
Estimated Market Cap: $228,364.11
The DUAT game token (ragnaroknft.quest) paves the way for the Ragnarok NFT game set to utilize Honeycomb NFTs.
Independent Validator Nodes: 7
Estimated Market Cap: $128,677.60
Progress
Work has been done over the last year to achieve the following milestones:
Node Network Backend
Community tokens, smart contracts, multi-party transactions
Complex uploading to IPFS, more efficient roll-ups
100% open-source
Front-end User Interfaces
Wallet, Exchange, NFT Sets, Cloud Storage
Updated to respond dynamically to new tokens
100% open-source, 100% rendered client-side
State Channel updates allow for off-chain messaging
Contracts can be settled after all parties reach agreement (SPK Network)
Complex interactions such as gaming can be done off-chain (Ragnarok)
Honeycomb updates from token configuration files stored in IPFS
Community level changes no longer require forking the software
Automated security and updating
Front end UX adjusts dynamically to new token features
Improved documentation with robust indexing and search
A new front end compatible with industry standard markdown has been implemented
DLUX, SPK, and Honeycomb are all unified in one documentation repo
Easy user updating to documentation via git (github) pull requests
DLUX Posts are native Progressive Web Apps
Experiences published through dlux can be installed on device as PWAs
Native app performance with censorship resistance
Unifying the Honeycomb codebase
DLUX and DUAT were combined into one code base. No fork is required to run a new token ecosystem.
Almost all previous funding passed through our HBD Stabilizer
Our custom program helps improve liquidity of HBD on the internal market
It's stability has been tested over last year with very little downtime
We plan to open-source the program (BYOAlgorithm) once it is fully validated
Accounting
350 HBD per day for 1 year
October 1st, 2024 - September 30th, 2025
127,750 HBD if fully funded
Costs
Our infrastructure costs are generally negligible and we strive to keep them as low as possible through decentralization. We are proposing a rate for our time to innovate and share solutions as needed by the community.
With over 9 years on the blockchain, @disregardfiat has been working exclusively on HIVE for the last 7. He's brought several concepts to life, including: DLUX, SPK, DUAT, and HashKings v1. Browse his Github to reveal several different project and concepts, including a posting history that demonstrates industry knowledge across a wide range of discussion topics. He runs a witness node, and a backup, that is currently in 41st active place (You can help improve this standing with a vote). Spoken languages include English, Spanish, and Portugese, which he uses when traveling to industy events across multiple countries... always representing HIVE.
Twenty years of building websites has kept @markegiles sharp to trends and best practices, and he's been working on Hive related software and proof of concepts for 7 years. A fascination with AR/VR pushed him to pursue new web interfaces using WebXR, now he designs and maintains the user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) at dlux. He also works in the film industry as a cinematographer, and at WorldAI Day 2019 he helped onboard over 100 users to Hive, live at an event, emphasizing the importance of building community.
