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A Grassroots reference implementation.

Background

A grassroots digital system consists of multiple autonomous and independently forming networks that can combine when one member joins multiple networks. This is similar to grassroots movements in the real world. For more background visit here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fmeq7mcf5s0jjlp/Grassroots%20Digital%20Democracy.pdf?dl=0

Architecture

Figure 2: The Grassroots Digital Democracy architecture, with a protocol stack (blue) and applications (brown). Links to figure references: (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6) (Reference (5) presents a blocklace-based permissioned consensus protocol. Its extension to a grassroots consensus protocol is in the works.)

Roadmap

Objective 1: base layer of the Grassroots Digital Democracy protocol stack Architecture Diagram

Activity 1.1. Build UI for grassroots dissemination P2P communication on smartphones
Activity 1.2. Implement grassroots dissemination backend (1st layer of the protocol stack)
Activity 1.3. Documentation for developers throughout
Reference: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04391
Deliverable 1: an unhardened working prototype of grassroots dissemination

Objective 2: Twitter-style application running on a grassroots architecture

Activity 2.1. Add UI/UX features for Twitter-like application, with news feed and P2P chat
Activity 2.2. Testing and basic optimizations
Activity 2.3. Documentation for developers throughout
Reference: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13941
Deliverable 2: a grassroots Twitter application

Objective 3: adding support for sovereign cryptocurrencies and economic activity

Activity 3.1. Adding equivocation exclusion (2nd layer of the protocol stack)
Activity 3.2. Inserting UI/UX for grassroots cryptocurrencies (minting and trading)
Activity 3.3. Inserting UI/UX for pricing & trading of IP/content/licenses
Activity 3.4. Enabling trading of assets to be bought and sold
Activity 3.5. Documentation for developers throughout
References: https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05619, https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.03567
Deliverable 3: Twitter application with sovereign cryptocurrencies and markets

The lay of the land with Firebase

• Install Firebase for Web
• Install Firebase hosting
• Local Development with Flutter and Firebase Codelab
• Firebase Emulator setup and configuration

Setup Firebase Emulators

1. firebase init emulators
2. firebase emulators:start
3. firebase emulators:start --only hosting

Firebase Security

Is it safe to expose Firebase apiKey to the public?