It's time to begin staffing Krypton's S.C./Daaps Development Team.
If you're a smart contract or distributed app developer, please join Krypton's slack and PM me.
http://slack.krypton.rocks
Just getting started coding Daaps and smart contracts? To learn more visit this Krypton Trello card for some 'getting started' links.
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What is a Dapp?
A Decentralized Application (or 'Dapp') is a piece of software consisting of a user interface (UI) and a decentralized backend; typically making use of a blockchain and smart contracts.
For examples of Daaps running on Ethereum visit:
http://dapps.ethercasts.com/There are currently 231 Daaps, in various stages of development, on the Ethereum network. Don't be discouraged by this. Krypton can do the same thing as Ethereum and host similar Daaps on the KR blockchain. We've only just begun.
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Looking Forward
Once Krypton has more S.C./Daaps devs onboard and some sample Daaps on our chain, Krypton will be ready to market to projects and companies looking for coders in this field.
Growing Krypton into a S.C./Daaps development firm will take some time and will not happen overnight, just as Ethereum was not built overnight.
Krypton will be specifically focused on developing custom Daaps for business systems and the Internet of Things.
Experts estimate that the IoT will consist of almost 50 billion objects by 2020. That's a lot of devices to code for!
To read more about the IoT and find out why this field is so exciting, I invite you to read this excellent white paper (pdf) from CISCO:
The Internet of Things: How the Next Evolution of the Internet Is Changing Everything:
http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/about/ac79/docs/innov/IoT_IBSG_0411FINAL.pdf
This article from The Economist does an excellent job of explaining why smart systems will disrupt lots of industries, and perhaps the entire economy:
http://www.economist.com/node/17388392Here's their summary:
It is difficult to say what effect all this will have on business and the economy. But three trends stand out. First, since smart systems provide better information, they should lead to improved pricing and allocation of resources. Second, the integration of the virtual and the real will speed up the shift from physical goods to services that has been going on for some time. This also means that more and more things will be hired instead of bought. Third, economic value, having migrated from goods to services, will now increasingly move to data and the algorithms used to analyse them. In fact, data, and the knowledge extracted from them, may even be on their way to becoming a factor of production in their own right, just like land, labor and capital. That will make companies and governments increasingly protective of their data assets.
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Bottom Line
Companies are always looking for ways to increase productivity. Developing custom distributed applications is an excellent means to do this. Much of the reason why companies have not already done this is that Smart Contracts and Distributed Apps developers are in short supply. The industry is too new.
With some volunteer Daaps devs already onboard, and more coming as I can find work for them, Krypton is well-positioned to enter this market as a development firm.
Developers, want your work to stand out instead of getting lost in a sea of ETH Daaps? Join the Krypton Dev Team today. Let's go to work.
