Standard Grant: S5 Network 2024

S5 Progress Report (April)

What progress was made on your grant this month?

  • Published an initial version of the new S5 landing page on https://s5.pro

  • I attended the first ever AT Proto / Bluesky conference in Europe and gave a talk (https://ahoy.eu/speakers/redsolver) about SkyFeed and its early beginnings in the Sia Skynet ecosystem. I also presented and discussed a new content-addressed architecture for the SkyFeed Indexer and AppView which can scale beyond the current (already massive) Bluesky network size by storing time-sharded snapshots of records on S5-compatible storage networks like Sia.

Links to repos worked on this month:

What will you be working on next?

  • Implement sharing in Vup Web, polish the user experience and add more features

  • In Vup Web, implement initial support for browsing and using webxdc apps (this milestone is now delayed)

  • Get the existing native Flutter-based Vup to version 1 and add features like p2p connectivity and advanced two-way sync (this milestone is now delayed)

  • Build the new content-addressed SkyFeed Indexer (via https://github.com/skyfeed-dev/indexer-rust/pull/5)