@uhudo Answers to your questions/thoughts…
- It would be interesting to hear how these deliverables contribute towards the user-friendly, chain-agnostic video streaming app for the retail market, which was mentioned as an idea/goal of the previous proposal. Any ideas when that will be available? I would prefer the xGov retroactively funded a full app rather then incremental developments, which are difficult for individual xGovs to try out and see the benefits first-hand.
The escrow smart contract is deployed on-chain, and the corresponding Android and iOS apps are currently in public beta for anyone who wants to play with the technical demo first-hand.
The previous proposal was limited to Android-to-Android streaming, this (proposal) deliverable enables iOS-to-Android cross-compatibility. We also moved to an on-chain escrow session vault, which provides a security upgrade over the old method of tracking session vault balances locally on a creator’s device.
Integrating this escrow model did require a temporary trade-off…video streaming is currently specific to Algorand now till we can iron out all the kinks (chain-agnostic Liquid Auth still functions perfectly fine under the hood). It also introduced some app video streaming UX friction and throughput challenges with prolonged streaming usage (fees, multi-threading issues, etc) that we are actively working through as we slowly scale up this summer.
If anyone else in the community is working on high-throughput micro-billing, where heavy request-batching is necessary to settle transactions 24/7/365 efficiently (e.g. by the block or small time increments), please reach out. I would love to collaborate and discuss/compare architectures
- Compared to the previous proposal, the metrics nicely increased. Do you know if this is related to the new introduced features and/or do you have any insights how is the work being used more broadly?
I think the bump in metrics is mostly due to the Algorand Foundation’s recent push toward their post-quantum (PQ) roadmap combined with AF tweets mentioning funded xGov proposals. Since our project is one of the few active Algorand projects that actually supports PQ accounts, it may have put us on the radar for certain audiences….so it’s likely a mix of real interest from other Falcon PQ devs, plus some automated indexers and developer bots that track those specific keywords whenever repo updates roll out.