Saito Summer 8

This week of Saito Summer Updates brings Web3 Profile Customization and P2P Fileshare Improvements.

Full update and Q&A here.

Web3 Profile Customization

We’ve introduced profile customization in Red Square! You don’t need to understand the technical details to start using it and better expressing yourself – just go to Red Square and navigate to your profile!

Passing the larger files around required for this is simple for a Web 2 service, but required a bit of nuance and innovation if we wanted to remain true P2P, Web 3. On Red Square, all data is sent P2P, and there is no central server to rely on. Storing the images associated with every user locally is not feasible, but neither is waiting for a user to come online to view their content or profiles.

To solve this, we’ve generalized how the Archive Module functions – a mechanism on the network which allows peers to store and validate their data when they aren’t connected to the network. Data is cryptographically signed, so it can’t be faked, and nodes gathering routing work will have the incentive to support this service.

Apart from profile customization, we’ve also leveraged the Archive Module to streamline and enhance how group chats work, allowing more customization and better synchronization.

Fileshare Improvements

Thank you to everyone who provided user feedback and debugging support since we officially released P2P Fileshare a few weeks ago.

Improvements come in the form of UI/UX as well as technical. For starters, you can now send a link to recipients to initiate a transfer – no longer does the person you are sending to need to have an existing Saito Wallet or be a contact, just send the link and that will be handled for them automatically.

The other improvement comes with sending large files. Since data is often cached on the route between two peers, the true state of the transfer could sometimes become desynced. We’ve updated Fileshare to handle this, so sending large files should work more consistently than before.

When NFTs?

NFTs aren’t here yet, but profile customization was an important prerequisite for the user-facing side of them. With this out of the way, we’re moving forward on the technical side of implementing NFTs and tokens generally on Saito Chain. We’ll be sharing a technical document outlining our approach to this soon, so stay tuned!

And More…

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